Whenever the People in Power Investigate Themselves, They Always Rule "Innocent"

Arnold Schwarzenegger did it: investigated himself on charges of no less than boorish behavior toward women (the women charged much worse), but decided there was insufficient evidence to try himself.

The Bush Administration forever does the same.

And now the Russian government has declared that it has found it did nothing wrong in the school siege in September 2004 which ended with so many of the children and other hostages dead when Putin ordered stormtroopers in.

On that score, Bush was right: he and Putin really do operate very much like they share the same heart and mind. Both limited, both brutal.