In Washington, geographic proximity to power is a measure of power itself.

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In Washington, geographic proximity to power is a measure of power itself. So perhaps it's simply a sign of the times that Brent Scowcroft, chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board--and national security adviser under Bush I--has been moved from his office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, across the driveway from the West Wing, to digs in the New Executive Office Building (NEOB), a block farther away. The reason for the downgrade is not hard to understand. Scowcroft openly objected to the Bush administration's...