An old joke has it that keeping people in the dark and heaping excrement on them can be called the “mushroom theory of management.” But after last night’s hearings on the Bergdahl deal on Capitol Hill, members of Congress couod be forgiven for thinking President Obama is a mycologically-inclined president when it comes to them. CBS News (!) reports: Republicans emerged from the Monday night session incensed that 80 to 90 people in the government knew about Bergdahl's release ahead of time and not one member of Congress got a head's up, including leaders of the national security committees. This blasts apart the administration claims that the reason Congress was not informed was that they feared a leak. It must be understood that leaders of the national security committees were informed well in advance of the Osama Bin Laden raid, which has to have been a far more sensitive secret to protect. It’s clear that the administration is just...(Read Full Post)