anywhere else be it in the current system with the director of central intelligence located at langley virginia, dci who in their estimation might retain the two other vengeance that the dci had mainly human intelligence and covert action but especially not into a new super empowered individual spymaster because they viewed this as a zero-sum game that any rebalancing of authority a way from the department of defense would degrade the department of defense's intelligence capabilities. the two principle players in this camp for secretary rumsfeld and vice president cheney. secretary rumsfeld is of course very quotable. he at the time was vociferously against the 9/11 commission's recommendations and he wrote in a letter to george bush from this time period something that i think is very notable and you can almost hear some of the intensity in his voice which was something basically that the united states congress, the media and john kerry can afford to be wrong and pay no penalty. the president of the united states has to be right on a matter of such importance and the end of this memorandum to

anywhere else be it in the current system with the director of central intelligence located at langley virginia, dci who in their estimation might retain the two other vengeance that the dci had mainly human intelligence and covert action but especially not into a new super empowered individual spymaster because they viewed this as a zero-sum game that any rebalancing of authority a way from the department of defense would degrade the department of defense's intelligence capabilities. the two principle players in this camp for secretary rumsfeld and vice president cheney. secretary rumsfeld is of course very quotable. he at the time was vociferously against the 9/11 commission's recommendations and he wrote in a letter to george bush from this time period something that i think is very notable and you can almost hear some of the intensity in his voice which was something basically that the united states congress, the media and john kerry can afford to be wrong and pay no penalty. the president of the united states has to be right on a matter of such importance and the end of this memorandum to

these courting functions from the cia from langley virginia. finally another camp and this is interesting because of who the people were in the positions that they would come to hold. they argued without the knowledge of secretary rumsfeld ironically enough that the national security agency and the national geospatial agency at the very least these two factories of intelligence now we know nsa very well through the const -- present -- they argued that the dni would be indeed feckless unless they had authority, direction and control over these massive intelligence agencies that resided in the department of defense. the two individuals who argue for this bureaucratic position by the current director of national intelligence today jim clapper and the future cia director general michael hayden. at the time there was at the head of nga and in the same prospectively so was quite an incredible positions they would advocate of moving their bureaucracies out of the department of defense. this set up the infamous lunch in washington with secretary rumsfe

> patrick, a former boy scout from washington state, meets starla while both are serving in virginia's langley air force base. >> i loved him. he was a sweetheart. >> starla's mother, re jeana knight, has fond memories of the couple's 2004 wedding. >> it was a beautiful day. i thought he really loved my daughter. he was a very caring son-in-law. >> after the air force, patrick and starla move into this kondo complex. she takes a job as a lab technician on the historic grounds of the university of virginia. he begins working at keller williams realty. >> patrick was quickie and funny and nice. >> fellow sales associate ellen pratt. >> i was as shocked as anyone could be at the final outcome of his story. >> we believe around the end of 2008, beginning in 2009, they started having some marital strife. mr. shamorei was saying she was not acting as she had before. there were some allegations that she had been going through money very quickly. at some point they decided to take a trip down to new orleans. i think that was sort of an attempt to see whether they could make the marriage work. and from

langley, va.. all of the families pack up and moved to virginia and the men start training and they are down in cape canaveral, florida and one of the most interesting things i learned just starting out in the book was how the cape, this sort of incredible men's playgrounds down there where there are working hard but also playing hard, was a no wives zone at first. going to the cape for a wife was totally off-limits. they weren't allowed to go out where the rockets took off from, all the wives would watch the early flights from the beach. at one point deke slayton's wife marge said this is ridiculous. you are going into space. i can't go to the cape. what is going on out there? she tells him that he'd better drive her out there and he hides her under some blankets in the back of his car and they go past military guards and she gets out there and pops up her hat and it is sort of a lonely beach jetties and scrub brush and what not. the whole country is dying for a cigarette. this is the kind of spunk and irreverence that these women brought to this brave new world of being an astronaut wife. you have

langley, va.. all of the families pack up and moved to virginia and the men start training and they are down in cape canaveral, florida and one of the most interesting things i learned just starting out in the book was how the cape, this sort of incredible men's playgrounds down there where there are working hard but also playing hard, was a no wives zone at first. going to the cape for a wife was totally off-limits. they weren't allowed to go out where the rockets took off from, all the wives would watch the early flights from the beach. at one point deke slayton's wife marge said this is ridiculous. you are going into space. i can't go to the cape. what is going on out there? she tells him that he'd better drive her out there and he hides her under some blankets in the back of his car and they go past military guards and she gets out there and pops up her hat and it is sort of a lonely beach jetties and scrub brush and what not. the whole country is dying for a cigarette. this is the kind of spunk and irreverence that these women brought to this brave new world of being an astronaut wife. you have