Interagency friction and the risk that Pentagon memos and internal factional disputes will leak, undermining civilian control and exposing the administration — a struggle to contain institutional vulnerability.
Interagency friction and the risk that Pentagon memos and internal factional disputes will leak, undermining civilian control and exposing the administration — a struggle to contain institutional vulnerability.
Events in This Arc
At a late-night briefing C.J. uses deliberately precise, legalistic language to deflect reporters pressing the administration to label atrocities as "genocide," invoking the U.N. Convention's fine distinction between "acts of …
After a lighthearted exchange about the inauguration Bible, Leo pulls President Bartlet aside on the portico to raise a technical but dangerous point: an NSC Presidential Decision Directive was routed …
In the Oval Office at night Bartlet frames the Khundu intervention in moral terms—reciting Isaiah and softening tension with a private toast—while Leo brings the hard political reality: the Pentagon …