A tactical/operational conflict: the administration must exploit domestic investigative leads (Johnson County arrests, FBI) to produce public accountability for the KSU bombing while avoiding exposing or legitimizing covert foreign actions — operationa...
A tactical/operational conflict: the administration must exploit domestic investigative leads (Johnson County arrests, FBI) to produce public accountability for the KSU bombing while avoiding exposing or legitimizing covert foreign actions — operational necessity vs. political/legal risk.
Events in This Arc
In the Mural Room the staff triangulates three crises at once: a nervous new aide's radical past is vetted, C.J. warns that Governor Ritchie is angling to politicize the campus …
A rapid security briefing collapses multiple crises into a single, morally freighted decision. Special Agent Casper reports a Johnson County, Iowa standoff at a house linked to the Patriot Brotherhood …
A rapid sequence of crisis decisions escalates into a constitutional and moral turning point. After Special Agent Casper briefs Bartlet on a Patriot Brotherhood-linked raid tied to the KSU bombing, …