StateSec HRC is offered a Mars-sized hanging curve ball, and she puts it over right center. Old rule is that when the story is big enough, such as the Torture Memos, then all stories become one. Dick Cheney is a genius at self-promotion; and the treat is that he might believe his own dragon-fumes. By asking for secret documents on torture while writing the first of his memoirs, Dick Cheney has found a way to make his book Number 1 worldwide, and it doesn't exist. HRC is a genius at the counter-punch. Asked by the ill-dressed California palaver purveyor Dana Rohrbacher for her thoughts on Dick Cheney's self-promotion tour, HRC responds so magnificently it appears scripted and rehearsed, "...I don't consider him a particularly reliable source of information."   No use of the name or title.  Just "him."  HRC delivers this with a half-smile and a long flutter of her eyelids.  She then immediately stops talking. The laughter in the background is her success. Dana Rohrbacher behaves poorly in response, mouth open, waving his sharpened pencil with his right hand finger tips, baritone unmodulated and with too much volume. (Hint: Do not wave a sharp object at a lady who can hit the long ball.)  HRC responds comfortably, "Well, Congressman, I believe we ought to get to the bottom of this entire matter. It's in the best interest of our country, and that is what the President believes, and that is why he has taken the actions he did." And then she stops talking. Time expired. Another star soprano performance. The Obama administration at the Met. The first act is mesmerizing.