the administration, right from the top, including the president, has generally had and set out a fairley rosy view of how things have developed, they killed bin laden so they talk about that.. they have a narrative, as they call it, and the narrative has been for some time things are going well, we've got things in hand, we've got things contained. now, it may be that some mid level bureaucrats or intelligence officers, one or the other, thought that they were doing the boss's will by emphasizing and asking to have emphasized and reports that were -- they had some responsibility for how well things were going. that would be a shame. that's not the way it's supposed to work. the analysts are supposed to work together, but they call it