tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207727415505589872.post9051729706174511329..comments2023-04-01T16:21:13.078-04:00Comments on Double-crossing the Rubicon: The beginning of the end (of the beginning)?The Familiar Strangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07375291985752875063noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207727415505589872.post-30671774823080724242011-02-04T11:01:44.164-05:002011-02-04T11:01:44.164-05:00Intel is only as good as the folks passing it up t...Intel is only as good as the folks passing it up the chain. If some desk jockey at the Egyptian desk has been standing on his chair for months ranting about the impending upheaval and his supervisor thought he was the equivalent of a street-corner "the end is near" type or was trying to make his bones and take said supervisor's job, it may not have made it out of some level of group meeting. The selection process in passing intel up the chain is still very human. Then again, everyone may have been focused elsewhere. We probably won't know for years (if ever) who knew what and when.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03281644905917987522noreply@blogger.com