Dear Diary: I met today with national security and health care advisors to discuss the Ebola situation. At the gathering were National Security Advisor Susan Rice, HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell, White House Homeland Security Advisor Lisa Monaco, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden, who insisted on participating only by telephone, despite my assurances that he was less likely to get Ebola in the WH situation room than on a Liberian bus. " My point exactly." said he.