Guardians of Grail

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Washington Whispers
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Joseph Kelliher held the strongest possible shield against tough questions at a news conference this week: his curly-haired 21-month-old son. Young Damien mainly clung to his father's neck, occasionally reaching up to push Kelliher's cheeks together as he explained the agency's stand on nuclear power and its role in the siting of new liquefied natural gas terminals, reports our Marianne Lavelle.
Apparently,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], even one of the nation's top regulators has trouble finding backup child care; Kelliher had committed a year ago to speak at Deloitte Touche USA's annual energy conference, months before learning his wife would be called to jury duty this week. Damien sat happily in the audience with Kelliher's staff during his speech to the more than 400 conference attendees. He wailed only briefly--perhaps with the rest of the electric industry--when the chairman turned to the subject of new reliability standards that go into effect this summer.
It was election night 1992,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and the popular Georgetown Tobacco shop was busy with political aides looking for one stogie brand: Paul Garmirian,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a fave of former Presidents Bush and Clinton. Churchill. in a greeting line but Bubba walked past. Arnold Schwarzenegger and David Letterman. "It's a nonpartisan cigar,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," says Garmirian,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who offers cigars, chat,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and espresso at his McLean, Va., store. Bill Richardson recalls talking cigars with the maker at Georgetown Tobacco. "Paul is a master cigar maker,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," he says, "but an even better raconteur."
By most accounts, the cia's new boss, Gen. Michael Hayden, inherited a grumpy agency beaten up in the aftermath of 9/11. Now insiders tell us that morale is edging up. And they credit Hayden's charm offensive for the change. His technique: Hayden sends out regular E-mails to staff boasting about their good work and revealing secrets he hears from top politicians. What's more, he sometimes stops by offices to buck them up. "He pulls people aside to say nice things. It works," says an insider. Hayden's got a solid public-relations record: When he ran the National Security Agency,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], we're told,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he used to video his interaction with workers to show he didn't work in an ivory tower. "You could write a management book off his techniques," says one official.
The rushed 2008 presidential race,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], already pedal to the metal earlier than ever before, is starting to look as though it could produce likely nominees as early as mid-February 2008. That's more than six months before the actual nominating conventions. The reason: Big states, like Florida and California,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], are tired of being overshadowed by New Hampshire and Iowa and want to play a larger role in picking the nominee. But now lots of states are following suit and plan primaries and caucuses by mid-February. Seeing it coming, the political parties are already making plans to have their headquarters invaded by the probable nominee's aides. The Republican National Committee, for example,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], has set aside 15 offices and cubicles for them. The Dems also have space "so we'll be ready to accommodate our nominee whenever (s)he arrives," an insider E-mails us.
It looks as if all those criticisms two years ago that first lady Laura Bush dumped her Clinton-era chef not because she disliked his style but just to put her stamp on the White House kitchen are proving true. Because at last week's state dinner for Queen Elizabeth,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], chef Cris Comerford produced a carbon copy meal in the style former Chef Walter Scheib designed--right down to the pea soup, a Bush fave. It should have been no surprise. Comerford was Scheib's deputy, one he called the best to replace him. By all accounts, the Bushes loved the chow, revealing another truth in Chefgate: The former social secretary who helped organize Scheib's firing because she didn't like his "country club" fare was wrong. They did like his style, and Comerford has adopted it.
It turns out that a friend of Whispers was part of the greeting committee for Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip when they visited Virginia's 400-year-old Jamestown last week. "I told him what it was and said,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 'Do you want one?'" Declining, the prince said, "I decided not to wear pins a long time ago. In the first place, you might stick yourself when you put them on, so I don't wear them."
Americans aren't the only ones frustrated by the lack of news on terrorism attacks thwarted by Uncle Sam. The FBI feels it too--yet realizes it can't brag on all its success. But FBI Director Robert Mueller offers us some reasons there haven't been any sensational hits: Terrorists don't have many places to train anymore; cooperation between governments is stronger; intelligence is better; and many of the bad guys have been captured. "I think we've become safer," he says. But beware. He says al Qaeda attackers are still here,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], most likely "waiting for the opportune moment."
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