Bring me more names!
What is obvious is that names are being generated and dumped into an embryonic but evolving apparatus of wide-ranging political scope. The Bush men simply haven't fine-tuned the procedure. They have not yet differentiated between the "somewhat dangerous," the "immediately dangerous" or the "might become dangerous" - or whatever color-coded formulas ultimately emerge.
They want names, lots of them. The scatter-shot, eclectic character of the listings indicates that a furious demand is emanating from the highest levels of the bureaucracy for as many names as possible, as soon as possible. Collation and categorization will come later.
The exhortations from on-high were especially shrill in the corridors and field offices of the FBI. The New York Times headlined their November 21 article, "F.B.I. Officials Say Some Agents Lack a Focus on Terror," but any low-GS clerk could understand what the bureau's number two official, Bruce J. Gebhardt, was actually demanding when he sent out a memo to 56 field office agents-in-charge: names, names and more names.
What is obvious is that names are being generated and dumped into an embryonic but evolving apparatus of wide-ranging political scope. The Bush men simply haven't fine-tuned the procedure. They have not yet differentiated between the "somewhat dangerous," the "immediately dangerous" or the "might become dangerous" - or whatever color-coded formulas ultimately emerge.
They want names, lots of them. The scatter-shot, eclectic character of the listings indicates that a furious demand is emanating from the highest levels of the bureaucracy for as many names as possible, as soon as possible. Collation and categorization will come later.
The exhortations from on-high were especially shrill in the corridors and field offices of the FBI. The New York Times headlined their November 21 article, "F.B.I. Officials Say Some Agents Lack a Focus on Terror," but any low-GS clerk could understand what the bureau's number two official, Bruce J. Gebhardt, was actually demanding when he sent out a memo to 56 field office agents-in-charge: names, names and more names.