David Ignatius: A National Security Wonk’s National Security Wonk
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Politico‘s Dylan Byers has written one of the fairest, most earnest reviews of another journalist’s work that I’ve read in some time, particularly when it is about a writer who enjoys enviably high degrees of access at the White House, CIA, State Department and Pentagon.