Didn't notice that but I would guess that it was a mistake.

I think Emily qualified most powerful by saying that at that time when there is a lot of rebuilding to be done in the country that Appropriations were crucial.

I don't think that what the guy did was worth the revelation of that single file (you would think he would have more) and his five minutes with the President was too short, especially given that the President did most of the talking rather than letting him say much. If you were Kirkman wouldn't you have lengthened the…

Yes, Hannah remembers seeing the guy later identified to her as Catalan from her CIA informant in the hallway of the military facility where they had been holding Majid Nassar — apparently pushing a food cart. We also see him noting Hannah through a sniper scope at the rooftop meeting she observes with Jason and the…

Like the use of quisling.

I have trouble with Kirkman not because he's good but because he is extremely naive. I'm not a career politician but even I have more guile than this guy. He's like a baby with how trusting he is. He goes as far as to notice things but then is unable to draw the right conclusions — like if Hookstraten really has…

In real life once Hookstraten told McLeish she was taking him down she would have been dead. The stakes were high enough in whatever traitorous project he's involved in to kill almost the entire Legislative and Executive branches. So, no biggie if Hookstraten were to have an (induced) heart attack, fall down the…

It wouldn't have made sense for her to testify anyway. How will she explain how as an FBI agent she got hold of a classified CIA document? Would she throw her CIA friend under the bus — assuming she even really knows who he is? The info she has would be best used by Hookstraten to blackmail McLeish after safeguarding…

I find the ideas it plays with (not always with much accuracy, unfortunately) interesting but the show is clunky. I didn't think that they were going for McLeish to look like a super villain — more for showing his unease and guilt — a more sinister parallel to the President's own feelings. I think Malik Yoba's…