National security / legal exposure: Fitzwallace and Leo convey that Qumar has reopened an investigation (Shareef's missing plane), creating a potential international-legal crisis (risk of Hague-style exposure) that forces the White House to shift the P...
National security / legal exposure: Fitzwallace and Leo convey that Qumar has reopened an investigation (Shareef's missing plane), creating a potential international-legal crisis (risk of Hague-style exposure) that forces the White House to shift the President from campaign mode back to crisis management.
Events in This Arc
In a rapid-fire Situation Room quicksheet Leo corrals terse intelligence: the Dow is down 260 points, North Korea may probe the DMZ in reaction to the President's Seoul trip, General …
In Leo's office Margaret patches the President through for a brisk, carefully-managed update: Bartlet cheerfully minimizes a sudden Dow plunge tied to Jennings-Pratt, projecting calm and refusing to let a …
During a terse phone exchange in Leo's office, Leo tells President Bartlet that Admiral Fitzwallace's briefing has forced Qumar to reopen the investigation into the missing plane. The revelation lands …