pReznit Ficus

What is with this woman?

Steven Aftergood, the director of the Project on Government Secrecy, said that while the poll didn’t predict Hamas’ big win, it clearly showed a trend toward victory for the Islamic militants.

“Either Secretary Rice was being disingenuous or else her department has a serious information-sharing problem, because INR could not have done a much better job of assessing the Palestinian election than they did,” said Aftergood. “No one else did a better job than INR. So to profess surprise of the outcome is incomprehensible.

“This is secrecy squared,” he continued. “It’s one thing to keep secrets from the public. But when the bureaucracy is keeping secrets from itself, policy is compromised.”

Maybe she was out buying shoes.

Update: See Skippy, “we don’t think anybody anticipated that things might happen while he was in office and he’d actually have to lead the country.”

Update update: I’ve been thinking the nation would be better served by a potted plant as POTUS. And Secretary of State, for that matter. But eventually we’d hear “I don’t think anyone could have anticipated that President Ficus would shrivel up and die if we didn’t keep him watered.”

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Cheers to Maha. . .