11.   Then national security adviser Anthony Lake also said he was not informed.

12.   Security advisers are confident the prince will be relatively safe from hostile forces.

13.   All this has been done with the knowledge and blessings of Congress, three presidents, and at least four national security advisers and eight secretaries of state.

14.   Also invited that day for consultations with Bush and Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, were members of the House and Senate foreign policy leadership.

15.   Among the new names was former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft, a retired general who worked for President Bush.

16.   An ailing Russian President Boris Yeltsin slowly signed his name last week to a decree firing his popular security adviser Alexander Lebed on national television.

17.   Amazingly, in a recent article in The Washington Post, U.S. national security adviser Samuel Berger asserts that that was the only way to go.

18.   And as he waits, criticism of the national security adviser is growing.

19.   And Chernomyrdin has exhibited little praise for the Chechen accords, which were negotiated by his principal rival, Alexander Lebed, the national security adviser.

20.   And it occurred while the president, the secretary of state and the national security adviser were all out of the country.