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19 Aug, 4 tweets, 1 min read
“Slowly” is the operative word here. This may prove to be a case study.
washingtonpost.com/politics/biden…
We need to consider the downside of “interagency process” operating at the speed of bureaucracy, not speed of reality. We need to consider when “whole of government” becomes “hole of government” and process consumes initiative.
We need to consider what process has done to leadership and accountability — when everyone has a piece of the decision accountability evaporates. This is a problem across government right now, not limited to this debacle or to these agencies.
Is “interagency process” serving us, or are we serving it?

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As we look back, I see the fatal day as when we dropped the ball in Afghanistan to pivot to the misbegotten Bush war in Iraq.
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The bipartisan infrastructure deal will create millions of jobs, protect wages & worker conditions & invest in American manufacturing. Pair this with an even bolder reconciliation package & you have a historic deal. But… what exactly is in the bill?
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22 Jul
This long-delayed answer confirms how badly we were spun by Director Wray and the FBI in the Kavanaugh background investigation and hearing.
whitehouse.senate.gov/news/release/a…
It confirms my suspicions that the “tip line” was not real and that FBI tip line procedures were not followed. There are FBI tip line procedures. They were not followed.
So when Wray said they followed procedures, he meant the “procedure” of doing whatever Trump White House Counsel told them to do. That’s misleading as hell.
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OK, I’m now officially very anxious about climate legislation. I’ll admit I’m sensitive from the Obama climate abandonment, but I sense trouble.
1⃣ Climate has fallen out of the infrastructure discussion, as it took its bipartisanship detour. It may not return. So then what?
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Nobody elected them anything; their former President nearly wrecked the country; they don’t wish us well; and they likely won’t deliver — can we move on?
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