Buckley

Lieutenant Buckley anchors as General Barrie's unyielding staff aide, materializing in West Wing hallways to parry press secretary C.J. Cregg's relentless probes. Evasion sharpens his deflections, loyalty ignites fierce defense of the general's brazen TV ambush—lacerating military readiness and the Bartlet administration mere hours before retirement. Stunned silence grips him as C.J. brands the tactic cowardly 'Ring and Run,' thrusting him back into motion to relay her verdict. Disciplined bearing channels military fealty through political crossfire, his poised restraint fracturing under raw confrontation to reveal devotion's vulnerable edge.