The Cloud Collector
“From there the White House chief of staff passed it straight back to the internationally besieged State Department with a demand for a politically and publicly acceptable explanation for the continued official silence. Encouraged by the implied presidential authority, the State Department convened a Homeland Security breakfast session restricted to directors and their deputies of all of its component agencies, who with one voice embarked upon another Washington tradition, the scapegoat hunt.
Ea...ch lined up behind the FBI—enraged at what it insisted to be illegal encroachment upon its internal U.S. jurisdiction and daily pillorying by an even more enraged New York Times—to denounce the CIA’s handling of the al Aswamy search as negligent, incompetent, and leaderless. None risked openly identifying the hapless Conrad Graham as the obvious sacrifice for authorizing Cyber Shepherd. But the tuned-in Graham already knew that CIA director Admiral Jack Lamb was privy to the intended career assassination of Graham, himself: despite Graham’s persistently memoed requests, he’d had no prior consultation with Lamb during the two-day, White-House-and-back runaround.MoreLess
Ea...ch lined up behind the FBI—enraged at what it insisted to be illegal encroachment upon its internal U.S. jurisdiction and daily pillorying by an even more enraged New York Times—to denounce the CIA’s handling of the al Aswamy search as negligent, incompetent, and leaderless. None risked openly identifying the hapless Conrad Graham as the obvious sacrifice for authorizing Cyber Shepherd. But the tuned-in Graham already knew that CIA director Admiral Jack Lamb was privy to the intended career assassination of Graham, himself: despite Graham’s persistently memoed requests, he’d had no prior consultation with Lamb during the two-day, White-House-and-back runaround.MoreLess
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