That limits any scope she has for making further concessions in Brussels.Yet closer scrutiny shows that she is in a stronger position than several earlier chancellors.
One memo that has received little scrutiny shows how officials in Washington were warned that the F.B.I.'s Boston office was too close to Mr. Bulger.
Public data from the Internal Revenue Service, which recently acknowledged that agency officials singled out conservative groups for special scrutiny, shows that dozens of Tea Party groups were approved for tax exempt status beginning in May 2012.
Before George Osborne was sacked, his misleadingly named "national living wage" seemed to promise a solution to in-work poverty, but proper scrutiny shows it is far more likely to worsen conditions for some households.
This simply isn't true, as a few seconds of scrutiny shows: the crisis in housing has seen house prices and rents rocket to unaffordable levels post-crash, while wages still haven't reached pre-recession levels.
Though the "war games" remain on the drawing board for now, the disclosure that they have been under serious scrutiny shows the depth of unease about the situation within the British government, which is hosting an international conference on Somalia in London starting on Thursday.
