The president and the prince met for two hours in the morning, and spent part of that time one-on-one, administration officials said.
However, there are large procedural differences between the linear number line board game studies and the whole-body movement studies such as group versus one-on-one administration and number of training sessions to name only a few, that do not allow a straightforward comparison of the two intervention approaches.
And also because so many of the endeavors and investigations and operations carry on from one administration to the other," said Mark Zaid, a prominent attorney who handles national security cases.
"This may not be on paper," one administration official said.
"They raise fiscal issues on buses," one administration official said, "but for something like this they find a way to resolve the issue.
But in a city where mayors often do not get to finish their terms, it is hard to lay blame for a budget crisis on any one administration.
But the White House never formally approved Mr. Kreczko and decided last week on what one administration official called the "Holy See's choice".
Before he sent Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld into the region on Tuesday, one administration official said this evening, "we knew it was likely Sunday, unless Don came back and said we weren't ready".
Let me just add one thing: it's worth asking what those special ops forces of "ours," relied on ever more heavily from one administration to the next, and settling into so many bases, actually represent.
In a briefing on Tuesday evening, one administration official said Iran and North Korea were examples of "regimes which have cynically exploited loopholes in the existing treaty" to build up their capacity to produce weapons-grade nuclear fuel.
With Mr. Obama scheduled to leave Washington for a weeklong trip to Asia on Nov. 11, one administration official said the likelihood of announcing his decision before then was fading.
