Go away. I'm tired.

The top story right now on Technorati is Dana Priest's report that the CIA held a suspected terrorist for five months without sufficient evidence.

The Masri case, with new details gleaned from interviews with current and former intelligence and diplomatic officials, offers a rare study of how pressure on the CIA to apprehend al Qaeda members after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has led in some instances to detention based on thin or speculative evidence. The case also shows how complicated it can be to correct errors in a system built and operated in secret.

Funny how it's always pressure from outside the agency that makes the CIA do terrible things, and then leak the story to somebody at the Washington Post.

OK, Dana, let's just dissolve the CIA and give all those spooks their walking papers. It doesn't sound like they've been doing us much good anyway, if their reports on Saddam's WMD are any indication. Where would reporters get all their stories about Bush's latest attack on human rights?

Who cares anymore? Let them hound Scooter Libby to hell. Valerie Plame has retired. She hasn't suffered any from having her position at the CIA compromised. She's still saddled with Joe Wilson, but she can't blame that on anybody but herself. She didn't get hammered for her nepotism. The people who have driven this whole investigation are the same ones who complained long and loud over how much money Ken Starr's investigation of the Clintons had cost. They never learn, those big city newsies.

Nothing seems to be as predictable as a scandal in a president's second term. One almost expects an investigation for the next administration that doesn't have one.

And just as predictable is the extrapolation of a single case of corruption into a condemnation of all conservatives/liberals in Washington. Here's an idea: let's cut the federal government back to the size it was in 1900. What would Ms. Priest, Mr. Kinsley and their friends do for a living? Don't their careers depend on people like Bill Clinton, Duke Cunningham and their screw ups?