Not sure if others have noted this yet, but the Pentagon official who strafed Hillary Clinton yesterday–Under Secretary Eric Edelman–is a former aide to Dick Cheney. I interviewed him in Ankara once when he was U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and his office was festooned with Cheney photos. I wonder what the SecDEf, who is not a Cheneyite, thinks about all this.
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