“Did it not once occur to you that there might be unpredictable blowback from interfering in Commonwealth internal politics?” The President was quietly furious. “Did it not occur to you that you are not omniscient? Our intelligence sources in the Commonwealth are so poor that they were able to hang that thing above our heads—” her finger, pointed skyward, indicated she was referring to the visiting Juggernaut—“without warning. Did it not occur to you that neither you nor the State Department get to make foreign policy on the fly? That there’s a difference between pursuing a bunch of
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