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To: tekboy who wrote (48800)	10/2/2002 1:22:06 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I never was high up enough to have to face the truly corrupting choices. Hey you are still a "young punk," One of these days you will be there and then get to write your CYA "memoirs" :^) Thanks for the feedback on Tony. I read about his blowup at a report that our top CIA guy in the Kurdish area of Iraq was supposed to have been starting a revolt. The story turned out to be wrong, and the guy was instumental in making sure Tony did not make it to CIA Director. The personal stuff going on with Clinton at the time must have really made it difficult to get peoples attention on these issues. Just too many distractions.

To: tekboy who wrote (48800)	10/7/2002 3:19:24 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Lake was/is a good guy--smart, decent, well-intentioned--but not the strongest personality around. Professorial is the word that's often used to describe him, and it's accurate. Even less than Tom Hagen, he's not a wartime consigliere, and unfortunately the national security adviser to the world's hegemon has simply got to be one of those. Makes the Clinton administration decision to put Lake up for the CIA directorship even more puzzling. I could not understand it at the time; understood it even less yesterday; now, given the point you make above, it just slips into the unfathomable.