Life-or-death operational ethics vs. bureaucratic/procedural caution: the President and senior staff must decide whether to authorize a high-risk FBI/assault action to rescue a child in immediate medical danger — a moral imperative that overrides usual...
Life-or-death operational ethics vs. bureaucratic/procedural caution: the President and senior staff must decide whether to authorize a high-risk FBI/assault action to rescue a child in immediate medical danger — a moral imperative that overrides usual procedural hesitations and forces urgent executive judgement.
Events in This Arc
In the Situation Room a tactical team briefs President Bartlet and Leo on a life-or-death standoff: a boy with congestive heart failure has been without medication for days and is …
FBI Agent Mike Casper briefs President Bartlet and Leo on the aftermath of the Iowa operation: explosives, pipes and fuses seized; one suspect killed, another wounded; and the hostage boy …