A working group like this with only two years to go in
an administration worrying about its place in history
must be one of two things, only:

1. we are referring this to committee so that we can say
we did something without having actually to do anything
(what is sometimes rendered in Italian as a "bella figura")

2. we already have our draft conclusions in white paper
form and we need to have the appearance of due process

A betting pool might be in order, but I narrowly favor #2

--dan

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