CONDI AND CONTRACTS
Why can't Condi be called to testify? Last I checked, Congress had pretty broad subpoena power. Plus, I suspect that just about all funds are actually administered by other than top Cabinet or White House officials. It's not an effort to defeat accountability, but possibly to get the decisions out of Rumsfeld's hands, and I thought that would make a lot of people happy.

As for Paul Bremer's staff only taking calls from, what I assume is the Old Boys Network, I don't see any conspiracy here. Busy people tend not to take calls from every subcontrator and foreman at the job site, but they surely take calls from people they know. It's human nature, not some tinfoil hat conspiracy.