By David K. Shipler
“EAT ME,”
said the note on the plate of cookies. So Senators John McCain and Lindsey
Graham took bites and rapidly shrank until they were small enough to fit
through the tiny door into the halls of Congress.
There,
mingling with their same-sized colleagues, these once-larger men badgered the
White House and U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice about her account of the attack on
the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, parsing the language of the CIA’s talking
points she had been given, which had carefully excised a reference to a
terrorist group because the information remained classified to protect
intelligence gathering.
The trouble
with being very small is that you can’t get an overview of the very big
problems that tower around you.
