Actually, the question is not, "If FBI agents can -– with just a few minutes' prior notice -- go rifling through the office of the executive director of the CIA, how hard would it be to give a couple of Justice Department investigators the security clearances they need to look into the role department lawyers played in the NSA warrantless spying program?" The real question is this: If FBI agents can do that to the *office of the executive direcotr of the CIA*, how much more so is it easy for them, using data they can obtain easily from the NSA, to raid the home of whoever the heck they want?

If the executive director of the CIA--a person who, one assumes, wields at least a modicum of political power, as well as being fairly closely allied with the Administration in power--can be put up against the wall that quickly, why on Earth should we assume that they will leave all other Americans (especially those *without* Foggo's connections) alone, particularly those who have made enemies in the Bush Administration. What's to stop them, the goodness of their hearts? We should *trust* these people to do the right thing?

Those are the real questions, friends.

The FBI is searching the office and home of the number 3 man in the CIA. Does anyone else think this sounds like a really unbelievable plot twist for "24" or "West Wing"?

Had the same feeling in 2000. "Now let me get this straight. The presidential election turns on a few hundred votes in a state with multiple procedural irregularities and, get this, the governor of the state is the brother of one of the candidates? And the secretary of state who is supposed to keep things honest is a local campaign manager? Get real. Never happen."