I'm not disagreeing about the deadwood and backstabers in the Dept. of State. After watching Bush and his staff handle more petty issues than this we know better than think this staff would "air dirty laundry" like this in a public forum like the "Letters to the Editor" section of a newspaper. This so Gladys Kravits by comparison...
Bush plays chess-like revenge by altering the course of government to heap burning coals upon his enemies not with mere sniping from the back pages of a newspaper. That's his style.
Whoever did this was sophisticated enough to know that if you destroy ethos, then both pathos and logos are destroyed as well.