Only Sy Hersh believes that neocon sleeper cells are controlling U.S. foreign policy, but yesterday’s launch of the Foreign Policy Initiative has captured the imagination of several writers. The New Yorker‘s George Packer wrote that FPI was the “ideological descendant” of the Project for the New American Century, which “put the squeeze on Bill Clinton to sign the Iraq Liberation Act, and then provided George Bush with many of his top officials, who ran and wrecked the liberation of Iraq.” As former PNAC director Gary Schmitt pointed out in the comments (Schmitt is, apparently, the blog’s only commenter), no PNAC official ever worked in the Bush administration (nor did the group “squeeze” the President of the United States). Packer apologized for the error in a subsequent post that contained still more errors (again, see the comment below). Likewise, Stephen Walt wrote on the launch of FPI: