Earlier today, reporters gathered in the press room at Foggy Bottom waiting for their daily briefing.

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For example, Freeman has view the Middle East through the prism of one of Foggy Bottom's most successful Arabists.

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Ben encouraged Timmy the Evader to borrow too much food, knowing that there was no way Fairyland at Foggy Bottom could ever pay it back.

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Despite efforts by the then-Bush administration Defense Secretary Robert Gates and his Foggy Bottom counterpart, Condoleezza Rice, to try to find some programmatic accommodation with the Russians, in the end President Bush stood firm.

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He is said to have done so in order to ensure that intelligence information he was relying upon was not being distorted by analysts with their own agenda in Foggy Bottom's Office of Intelligence and Research.

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It's not in Washington's Foggy Bottom neighborhood, where the gray monolith of the State Department gazes out onto the Potomac, or in the trendy salons of Georgetown or the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City.

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Finally, as our tale draws closer to its conclusion, we find that the residents of the kingdom of Fairyland at Foggy Bottom have now become so fat and lazy that no one wants to work any more, even if there was a way to plant and harvest a crop.

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The problem was compounded by others Negroponte also brought in from State, notably his assigning of the appallingly inadequate former U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Kenneth Brill, as the Director of the Counter-Proliferation Center and of Foggy Bottom "expert" Vann Van Diepen as the National Intelligence Officer for non-proliferation matters.

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