Informant38

"he went to bed unaware that the New Orleans levees..."
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Chertoff's deeper explanations have a veracity and logic that's credible as far as it goes.
And if you extend him the same open-minded consideration you'd like to get in return, there's not that dark tinge of malevolent intent that's so knee-jerk an assumption now in so many of us.
But there is something, out at the edge of things, unravelling, coming apart.
And in that too, if you want to get big about it, you want all these guys to wake up - not run out of the building screaming that their pants are on fire.
You want them to hold the line.
It's just that we can't be sure what line they'll hold.