" If I had to pick the most astonishing aspect of this episode so far, it would be that everyone now knows that the Obama administration's top national security official, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, outright lied to the Senate about NSA programs. And yet - as I said on ABC yesterday morning - not only isn't he being prosecuted for that crime - as much of a crime as anything Edward Snowden is accused of doing - but he still has his job. That, of course, is because the "law" does not apply to high-level Washington officials and DC's National Security State is an accountability-free zone."<p>Accountability-free zone. Remember that the next time you read a story of some kid at school getting strip searched by a police "resource officer" under the school's <i>zero tolerance</i> policy because she had a tylenol in her lunch.