"There is a population that lacks the education and opportunities to even conceive what benefit they could get from a modern nation-state, " said Anderson, who headed the CIA's Afghan task force in the late 1980s.
Bloomberg Chief Executive Daniel Doctoroff said the company wants to "go even further and get the benefit of independent leading experts so that we set the new standard for privacy and data security, " in a statement announcing Mr. Palmisano's appointment Friday.
Even if the Administration fails to get Congressional approval, it will get the benefit of saying that it is trying to do something that could work if only it was not obstructed by the opposition.
Yet the former teaching assistant found even working as a solicitor's receptionist could not get her out of the cycle of benefit dependency and homelessness.
But over the years, the rules governing benefit determination have become so convoluted and indecipherable that even the people working at the local Social Security offices routinely get things wrong.
But, for the Fed to avoid making an inflationary mistake requires Bernanke and his colleagues to get it exactly right, even as a growing number of people become less willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.