http://washingtonindependent.com/46915/jim-jones-keeps-getting-kufi-smacked National News in Context Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:30:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://washingtonindependent.com/46915/jim-jones-keeps-getting-kufi-smacked/comment-page-1#comment-33739 General Jones And Me « Around The Sphere Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:22:49 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=46915#comment-33739 [...] Spencer Ackerman: None of this is to say there aren’t people out to get Gates like this was “Appetite For Destruction.” Nor is it to say that Steve and Tom aren’t hearing what they’re hearing. But it doesn’t seem like we’re any closer to determining who the culprits are. I’m going to offer my own speculation: Jones isn’t the real problem. It’s that Obama hasn’t yet figured out how he wants his NSC to operate, and how he wants it to be run. Pure speculation, sure, but usually national security advisers function in response to their presidents. [...] [...] Spencer Ackerman: None of this is to say there aren’t people out to get Gates like this was “Appetite For Destruction.” Nor is it to say that Steve and Tom aren’t hearing what they’re hearing. But it doesn’t seem like we’re any closer to determining who the culprits are. I’m going to offer my own speculation: Jones isn’t the real problem. It’s that Obama hasn’t yet figured out how he wants his NSC to operate, and how he wants it to be run. Pure speculation, sure, but usually national security advisers function in response to their presidents. [...]

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