[mrsmith]

"not from the high level cover your ass policy types"

I thought it extremely obvious that this story sources ONLY "high level cover your ass policy types"!

[RobbyS]

If I were the military I could make this gentlement jump in with the troopers and learn what its all about from the ground up.

[Kenyon]

By high level I mean Cabinet level and the immediate level below. His sources here were no doubt one-two stars, deputy assistant secretaries, or lower etc. Or maybe that Wolfowitz character.