[leadpenny]

Of course it's our job but he is injecting domestic politics in the affairs of state and Powell has a duty to protect the State Department's turf.

[risk]

I predict restraint. If anyone else had done this, and we still don't know who actually did it, we might have gotten a rise out of the secretary. But it's an election year, and all bets are off. In any case, the sentiments expressed in this letter are in stark contrast to the Bush administration's vision.