Administrations are undone by scandal and moments when they look pathetic, but this administration, guarded in all things, has rarely had those moments.
The Giuliani administration guarded basic city data as though they were state secrets, and spent millions of public dollars to deny the release of public information.
Instead, Mr. Peters said, Raúl Castro's rise caught the administration off guard.
Mr. Gonzales announced his resignation on Monday, appearing to catch top aides and others in the administration off guard.
The information about the clothing, first reported in The New York Times, caught the administration off guard, causing one foreign policy official to say, "One hand of the administration did not know what the other hand was doing".
A16 Senator Rejects Ridge Offer Senator Robert C. Byrd, Democrat of West Virginia, rejected an offer by Tom Ridge, director of the Office of Homeland Security, to give briefings rather than formal testimony to Congress on how the administration was guarding against terror attacks.
While Israel informed the United States before making the announcement, as it has before other such announcements, it clearly caught administration officials off guard.
Since then, it has been called the Bush administration's "praetorian guard in the war on terror" and fancies itself as "the FedEx of America's forces".
Iran was the news of the interview, but the vice president was revealing, at least for the administration's chief guard of secrets, on other topics as well.
For example, one official noted that maintaining safety "involves coast guard administration, the center for disease control, the national immigration agency, the port station, the maritime and port bureau, the Taiwan International Port Corporation etc".
This is manifested in Article 3 of a law promulgated by the Head of Bni Brak Local Council which provides that, 'the Water Administration shall be charged with guard and administration of the water project installations for which it was appointed.
