It wasn’t luck. It was bad decision making for his boss, such as the ports deal, the immigration issue, and the fiasco known as Harriet Myers.
The “ports deal” was a CIA front to get our agents into 137 ports in which we have little intel capability. The story appeared on Foxnews and in the NY Times. You need to drop that mantra. Immigration sucked and Miers was not my choice either... but the ports deal was something other than what it appeared.
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