in any less oppositional time this would just be funny. in today's world I am waiting for a Republican to demand a special prosecutor

The State Dept has spent $70,000 buying copies of President Obama's books to give away.  (And, no, apparently neither W nor Clinton did this.)

Not much of a scandal, and not much off the top of a multi-trillion-dollar deficit.  Mostly funny.

Yet not as funny as the fact that our own "Supermax" prison in McLean VA has banned the President's books:

The federal government's most secure prison has determined that two books written by President Barack Obama contain material "potentially detrimental to national security" and rejected an inmate's request to read them.

You really can't make this stuff up.