"Everything's so disorganized and incoherent," the diplomat told me behind a closed door.
But when speaking on condition of anonymity, diplomats told a different story.
"Sometimes things can be garbled in the translation, as any diplomat will tell you."
"It's a matter of different speeds," the diplomat told me.
But the diplomat told me it would speed things up, and I'd get my money back.
Once the diplomat has told everything he knows, Morgan begins to lower him into a vat of acid.
Well, the "lesson" as she'd called it must have injured her pride even more deeply than his diplomats had told him.
"They respect him for what he did during the financial crisis last autumn," one diplomat told me this week.
"The wheels are going to come off," the Western diplomat in Yemen told me.
What the diplomats told me was that "a very massive violation of human rights had taken place in Bulgaria."