The documentary "Inside Job," written and directed by Charles Ferguson — who made "No End in Sight," the best of the nonfiction movies about the Iraq war — doesn't replace any of those works, but it provides the most comprehensive brief narrative of the causes of the crisis (which was set in motion well before that homeowner in Stockton signed a piece of paper).
THE latest print issue of The Economist features a comprehensive briefing on Canada's oil-producing tar sands.
He points out that many senior Bush administration officials, including Paul D. Wolfowitz and Douglas J. Feith, were focused on Iraq long before 9/11, and that Mr. Cheney asked Bill Clinton's then-departing secretary of defense, William Cohen, before the 2001 inauguration to give the incoming president a comprehensive briefing on Iraq and detail possible future actions.
President Ashraf Ghani's government, already livid from what it said was a failure by a "disrespectful" Khalilzad to even provide them with a comprehensive briefing on the talks, hit the roof, placing most of the blame on Khalilzad.
The Democratic House minority leader, Nancy Pelosi, is pushing the interim director of national intelligence for a "comprehensive" briefing over the next two weeks.
"We would anticipate that the review will be concluded within the next week, after which a comprehensive briefing will follow".
In a joint appearance with Trump at the White House, Palin acknowledged that she "didn't know a lot about Nambia" but said that she was looking forward to receiving a comprehensive briefing on the nation's history, culture, and customs from the Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos.
"But our demand is for a comprehensive briefing, which is about the scope, purpose and objectives of the government's policy.
Instead, he praised Petraeus for a comprehensive briefing and also suggested the intelligence had not been good.
So for more than an hour, Major Garrett mixed homilies about respecting others with graphic definitions of sexual acts in a comprehensive briefing that was part of the military's effort to help its leaders come to grips with the policy.
Roger C. Brewer Honolulu, Hawaii SIR —It is disappointing to see a supposedly comprehensive briefing on marriage in America fails to mention the gay-marriage debate in the United States.
