Bartlet versus bureaucratic procedure over Colombia recertification: the President's moral/political impulse to use decertification as leverage clashes with automatic procedural rules and administrative inertia, forcing an agonized executive choice.
Bartlet versus bureaucratic procedure over Colombia recertification: the President's moral/political impulse to use decertification as leverage clashes with automatic procedural rules and administrative inertia, forcing an agonized executive choice.
Events in This Arc
President Bartlet receives a grim briefing about Colombia: cocaine production has surged, extradition requests have been ignored, and anti‑drug funds were openly embezzled. Bartlet reacts with wry disbelief and delegates …
President Bartlet quietly pulls Will into the staff cabin and shifts from the intimate — calling the families of men lost in a friendly-fire incident — to the consequential: an …
President Bartlet erupts in frustrated disbelief when Will informs him that, despite political reasons to withhold recertification for Colombia, a procedural rule automatically recertifies them. The scene moves from policy …