You still just don't get it, do you?
It's a hit piece, a stab in the back by some disgruntled career diplomat whose job is on the bubble because they F--- ed up.
It can be said that no democrat ever foresaw Bush winning over either Gore or Kerry. That's politics.
So is Hamas's victory. Personally I see the Hamas's victory as a blessing in disguise, They will either have to learn to live with the Israelis or they and Fatah will end up killing each other in a battle over the control of the purse strings.
In the end I see them as getting their asses handed to them from either the Israelis or Fatah.
And me, you, Condi, and the President can really do nothing more then watch and hope until someone over there gets their heads screwed on just right.
And who are you going to blame for that?
The fact that Condi asked for an investigation of how she/they were blinded by the Hamas victory; that fact is a "hit piece"? Sorry, her decision to have that fact - they were blindsided - investigated, is an admission that they were, and she is ultimately responsible for that. Has she disavowed her investigation, or the State Department spokespersons' quote attributed to her, in the annoucement of that investigation? No. Neither. She/they were blindsided and she admits that, by the organization response she requires her department to take.
I was not commenting on the pluses or minuses, down the road, of the Hamas election victory (time will tell) nor was I "blaming" Condi or anyone for that turn of events. My comments reflected my chagrin that Condi was surprised by it and her mounting an investigation about that surprise reflects that the possibility was not even given any serious consideration; while I seriously believe no one should have been surprised and, more importantly, the possibility should not have been left out of consideration, with plans beforehand for dealing with the aftermath of it. Again, in a major foreign policy matter, our foreign policy apparatus, and its leader, is left without previously considered direction to respond to events that we were fully capable of anticipating.