[pgkdan]

"I don’t know any of them," said Kori Schake, a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and a former official in the George W. Bush State Department. "National security is hard to do well even with first rate people. It’s almost impossible to do well with third rate people."

Bull. Either Kori is lying or stupid.

[ManHunter]

Condi Rice was a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. I had the occasion to speak with her one-on-one several times and what she knew about the underpinnings of terrorism and the roots of conflict in the Middle East wouldn’t fill a matchbook cover. (Do they still make those...?)

The little-known secret of the “national security professionals club” is that they cycle in and out of the National Security Council and places like the Hoover Institution, Harvard’s JFK School and a few others and eventually, one of them becomes national security advisor. The problem is that, almost to a man (or woman) none of them have ever actually DONE anything.