divisions in this country. and perhaps the very carnage we saw in texas. the words that i can hardly believe as they come out of philip rucker s mouth, frank figliuzzi, but you predicted this. you so much as predicted that the tinderbox that phil and peter baker of the new york times have written about, this country s sort of state of play when it comes to questions of race. so amped up by the president s rhetoric, colliding with this rise in white supremacy and domestic terrorism. talk about what you predicted, what you feared, and what has come to pass. well, i have never felt so badly about being right before. i wish i were wrong. but i had to put pen to paper because it was instinctive. this isn t rocket science. if you have been in the intelligence community, you have an instinct to identify a threat, push it out and get the