The attention of senior officials is a finite resource. In the summer of 1914, Britain couldn't be bothered to focus on a controversy in Bosnia because the Cabinet was consumed with the Irish Question.
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History is, in fact, full of looming crises that got comparatively little attention from the senior policymakers because of something else that was happening at the time. The fall of King Otto of Greece pushed the American Civil War off the British agenda in October 1862.
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That's not actually what happened, but I agree that impeachment is no excuse for the CDC or FDA.
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What was House Intel Committee doing.
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And what's the excuse for downplaying the coronavirus threat after February 5th?
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I wasn’t being briefed by experts.
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I AM NOT A SENATOR
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