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You saw after september 11th with soaring approval numbers, people rallying around the flag. i think people who disapprove of this president are inclined to think that he will handle a cry ci crisis badly and not trust in whatever he's doing. so i think that limits his options. and that might be a good thing because as was discussed, all the military options are unattractive. and the reason i'm not totally losing my mind about this, people talk about kim jong-un as though he were crazy, but a lot of his behavior has been pretty rational looking to me including the nuclear program itself. what ...

Presence of a political appointee that's a supervisor in some form or another. other agencies around the government have sort of reorganized in a way to prevent these potential conflicts of interest where you have a political appointee or somebody that could tell an investigator -- make an investigator feel as if, i got to listen to them. maybe i will take my foot off the gas here a little bit, that there isn't enough outside independence when it comes to the investigator, whether it is the diplomatic security corps or the inspector general themsel s themselves. state department, there is a la...

But we really need to put some emphasis on the "if true" part. one of the things that's concerning to me from the outside is something that chuck made reference to, which is if you do not have a confirmed inspector general in place, you don't have -- yes, the inspector general's office is staffed and it goes on, but you don't have someone necessarily with the fortitude and the power to stand you up to the other forces at the state department to say, no, we need to have this investigation in the proper way. so there has been a problem with that post and i would suggest stay department will be w...