When Henry Hyde dispatched those 81 questions from the House Judiciary Committee to the president last month, maybe he should have asked the Clinton administration's inquisitors at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to toughen up the wording.
As Al Kamen reported in his Washington Post column, the shooting of a protected gray wolf in New Mexico led to an accusatory federal mailing to hunters in the area, who were threatened with investigation if they didn't fill out a form asking questions like these: "Do you know who shot the wolf? Did you shoot the wolf?" But the best was still to come. The questions ended with a Kafkaesque flourish: "How do you feel now that you have completed this form? Should we believe your answers to the questions? If your answer to the last question was yes, give us one reason why."
Your tax dollars at work.