One City Council member said that at least part of the problem rose from what he called a mistaken decision to place the command center next to a terrorist target.
If, in a controversial - I'm not saying a mistake - decision that hypothetically - and, I repeat, hypothetically - favours Chelsea, they know they are going to be publicly exposed by their boss.
Robin Lustig, former presenter of Radio 4's the World Tonight, writing in the Guardian: "In retrospect, setting up the Pollard review was probably a mistake, a decision taken in haste by a new and untested director-general, George Entwistle.
"The risk is primarily that during the five-day trip, during their sleep-deprived state, they make a mistake, that decision-making goes completely out of the window," says Ray. "You can recover after a while, with a few good nights' sleep.
Luttrell has long been comfortable combining warfare and politics, writing in his book, of a mistaken battlefield decision, "I'd turned into a fucking liberal, a half-assed, no-logic nitwit, all heart, no brain, and the judgment of a jackrabbit".
Conversely, computerised bees that blindly followed the waggle dances of others without first checking whether the site was, in fact, as advertised, led to a swift but mistaken decision.
Press and critics generally judged the decision a mistake, although the Wisden correspondent believed the decision to be correct as Hutton benefited from a break.
"Sometimes you make decisions, I'm just a young man whose made a mistake in making that decision to move," he said "But it's not a regret, it's a decision I made and I wanted.
The networks' mistaken decision to call Florida so quickly came under fire from officials of the Bush campaign and some who analyze the news media.
The American Petroleum Institute called the decision a mistake at a time of economic distress.
The head of the sport's union, Takahiro Arai, called the decision a mistake.
