Never Write When You Can Speak

Never Signal when you can wink? I suppose it gets tricky when you're trying to avoid leaving a trail.

A couple months back, as the President-elect was announcing his Cabinet nominees, I’d hear reassurances that, while the Secretaries were all chosen purely for their combative TV skills, they would be bolstered by deputies who actually know how the department runs.

That belief, if it ever could be held, surely breathed its last with the release of Jeff Go…