On CBS News tonight, Steve Kroft previewed a 60 Minutes story from this Sunday’s show. The subject is the $8.8 billion in Iraq reconstruction funds that has simply disappeared.

Kroft quoted a memo in which a government official wrote about a particular contractor who received $100 million in reconstruction contracts. The memo said the company:

has shown themselves to be (1) unresponsive; (2) uncooperative; (3) incompetent; (4) deceitful/manipulative; and (5) “war profiteers.” Other than that, they are “swell fellows.”

It’s not really surprising that the Administration is doing business with companies like this — they recognize a kindred spirit. The description of the contractor in the memo seems to fit the Bush Administration itself just like a glove.

I’m tuning in to 60 Minutes this Sunday. Looks worth watching.

Cartoonist Tom Tomorrow notes that while the innocent have nothing to hide, the Bush Administration has plenty to hide.

Tom DeLay says the Constitution provides no right of privacy to the American people, and for years Republicans have been filling federal judgeships with people who share that view. Privacy, it seems, is the Divine Right of King George alone.