Some of the most dangerous enemies to US security and freedom are the career beaurocrats at State. State, like CIA, has been purposely infested with leftists in order to leak and secretly undercut US intelligence efforts around the world.
Putting Condi there was a good idea, but someone forgot to tell her to ignore, or better, do the direct opposite of any advice given to her by State careerists.
being the scholar, she should have known
This is where Clinton had it all over Bush: he fired all the Bush Sr. careerists that were sitting around the justice dept and such. Bush Jr., trying to extend the olive branch and lead with some modicum of civility and compromise let all those punks from the previous administration hang out and sabotage him. See what it got him? The lesson is how the libs respond to compromise. For example, WTF is Norm Maneta still doing in Transpo, even after 9/11?!?! At the next opportunity, I'm sure he'll take care of the President since the president took such good care of him.