What she is really asking her staff is why she wasn't given a better synopsis of potential scenarios, in short she is asking them why they failed to do their jobs as they are supposed to.
If you believe that she can do her job or the job of the president solo and completely on her own, you don't have the slightest clue about leadership.
As soon as she said that I'm sure there were a host of red faces and red ears in her staff at being told they had failed the country, the president and her in their jobs and if they didn't get that message they are as equally clueless as the originator of this thread.
I am sorry, but if you ask Don Rumsfield what he thinks are the critical military considerations in a situation, you can bet he does not have to check with his advisors.
We need a Secretary of State that runs the State Department, not one that is run by the State Department.
Condi should not have needed one single advisor to see, and know, for herself just how strong Hamas was. She has allowed the State Department process and its bureaucrats and divas to filter and "explain" too much for her.