Quote Originally Posted by JMA View Post
Well the world is about to see what goes on in the State Department for themselves.
JMA,
I wish I could share your enthusiasm and optimism, but my 26 years of being around Embassy and State lead me to believe otherwise.

On the other hand, you may be correct...
There was a time in Zaire when one could read yesterday's message traffic while chomping on a road-side omelet/baguette less than 50 meters from the Embassy (the sandwich was wrapped in multiple pages of cable traffic). It was then I realized why only our office shredder was always broken or dull.

Tom can tell you how fast our burn time was when we were there (not much to read about in our office).