[kublia khan]

Please don't forget to mention Collin Powell who failed to make the corrections at state they so desperately needed to be made.

[olde north church]

He, Powell, is also the only one from the first term who isn't in the second term who is above Libby's "level". Apologies for the tortured sentence. When we think about "Official A". The one who Fitzgerald knows about but didn't reveal. Who leaked to Novak but went unnamed by him.

Novak's loyalty is to his gravy train. Name on of Bush 43's policies he has supported. Novak has been in the Beltway for nearly 50 years, how does he swim so freely in that environment without having some stockpile of secrets?

Back to Powell. go back to all reports of infighting between Cheney/Rumsfeld/Rice and Powell. Powell knew he wouldn't be serving a second term. Elementary.

[Cicero]

Absolutely. The CIA, FBI, and Justice Departments may be the most important, but there are problems at every other bureaucracy too. The Department of Education should simply be dissolved.

Foggy Bottom has always been pretty dismal, but I agree that Colin Powell didn't even attempt to improve it.