What is boring about ignorant US media is that they use the same language of US government propaganda on foreign policy. The marching orders were issued: that what is happening in Egypt regarding US NGOs is purely the work of a "Mubarak holdover"--never mind that this same Mubarak was an American stooge who was showered with praise for decades. So this from Thomas Friedman: " Yet the priority of a few retrograde Mubarak holdovers". Yet, few lines later he said: "As a former Mubarak adviser put it to me." So Friedman criticizes Abul Naga for being a "Mubarak holdover" and yet receives his wisdom from a "Mubarak adviser."