So they always begged me not to share their names publicly but wanted to support my efforts and supplied me with lots of inside stories of bureaucracy and what they saw as dumb decisions which they wanted me to bring to light.
However, Secretary of State Colin Powell, backed by Clinton holdovers inside the State Department bureaucracy, has done nothing substantive to support the presidents position on the matter.
The most immediate fallout is that the affair is likely to strengthen the conviction among many cardinals that the next pope has to lead a serious house-cleaning inside the Vatican's bureaucracy.