Today's Bob Herbert

The White House is sweating out the possibility that one or more top officials will soon be indicted on criminal charges. But the Bush administration is immune to prosecution for its greatest offense - its colossal and profoundly tragic incompetence.

That is the first paragraph of Bob Herbert's column in the times today, available for free at Truthout. He goes on to discuss the talk that Lawrence Wilkerson made last week that turned out to be a prelude to Brent Scowcroft's New Yorker article.