Time.com – By John Cloud
Charlotte Preece wanted a cigarette. She was freaking out, and she needed a moment outside her Capitol Hill building in Washington to think about the odd turn her life had taken that day, Dec. 20, 2004.
Preece, who was 51 at the time, worked then – as she does now – for the Library of Congress, where she helps make hiring decisions for the Congressional Research Service (CRS), the U.S. Congress’ analysis agency. She had decided to recommend an ex-Special Forces colonel named David Schroer to be CRS’s terrorism specialist…