According to Richard A. Pozner, author of “Preventing Surprise Attacks”:

“The careerist imperative in Washington ‘is based on the known

reluctance of civil servants …to share information with their

superiors.’ … Instead, the bureaucracy strives to maintain ‘the

knowledge deficit’ that a political appointee brings to a new post.”

The above is from Jim Hoagland’s column today on Pozner’s book, a book

that reassess the conclusions of the National Commission on Terrorist

Attacks Upon the United States.