Saturday, 2nd October 2008
The White House, Washington DCDuring a morning appointment, Chief of Staff Dennison and Security Advisor Allen had brought Vice President Larry Martins up to speed on the decisions made in their earlier meeting. As Catherine Dennison pointed out, the President was keen to have a one to one meeting with his deputy later that day. Since politics remained important even during a crisis, the President had personally wanted to take a “time-out” to explain his decision to approve the CIA’s covert plan to assassinate the Indian Prime Minister.
The meeting lasted no longer than twenty minutes and, as he had hoped, he received the approval of his Vice President. President Whiting was left feeling slightly bemused that his deputy’s backing hadn’t been as forthcoming or a
