Mr. Stephens chose to make it about himself while purposely misinterpreting--and therefore wrongfully impugning--Mr. Pompeo's and Gen. Thomas' reasoning in order to make the administration look bad. So he follows a lie about him with a lie about the motives of others. Where is your indignation about that? The far more important issue is working for The NY Times which encourages this poor journalistic behavior by printing it, and willingly puts American soldiers and other people ISIS is trying to kill at greater risk by printing national security leaks for the Times' own financial benefit. That is what my comment was about. Thanks for reading it.