A recent story in the Washington Post says that CIA counterterrorism officers have signed up in growing numbers for a government-reimbursed private insurance plan that would pay their civil judgements and legal expenses if they are sued or charged with criminal wrongdoing, according to current and former intelligence officials and others wirh knowledge of the program. What does that mean?? Well, to me, it means that the Administration need not defend those agents acting in accordance with their orders. Such defense would acknowledge the Administrations’ culpability in ordering the conduct in question. In effect, they are contracting out their liability.. I wonder about the insurance company involved. Who they are reinsured with?? And is it possible they themselves are a CIA front—-of which I understand there are a few. With respect to the situation concerning the venerable Parsons Company, I wouldn’t be surprized if they make a claim for additional funding claiming the Army did not providing adequate security to allow them to perform properly. And then the AP reports that a scorching internal review of the Bush administration’s billion-dollar-a-year reading program says the Education Department ignored the law and ethical standards to steer money however it wanted, The government audit “is unsparing in its view that the Reading First program has been beset with conflicts of interest aqnd willful mismanagement” and suggests the department broke the law by trying to dictate which curriculum schools must use. Doesn’t anyone in this administration go to jail? Well, maybe one. And then there was the case of missing documents from the Nationaal Archives, thousands of them having been withdrawn from the public shelves by the CIA and the Air Force. The officials at the Archives are supposed to be investigating. What is the public being deprived of??? Casualties have now passed 2700. Read recently that State now using Hired Security at their Embassies instead if traditional Marines. Another casualty oof the war or maybe just another step in the privatization process whereby people are responsible to the Administration rather than to the American Nation/People? Enough for now.