Nosy Tarsee is curious about the grudge that has been making the rounds of the Senate gallery, in which a retired two-star general, The Gatekeeper, who guarded the chamber’s front door as Sergeant-at-Arms, is being slapped with a suspension.

His crime, allegedly? Doing his actual job.

When a certain bureau’s finest showed up unannounced to frog-march a sitting senator, a certain former top cop turned lawmaker, out of the halls of Congress without so much as a proper warrant, The Gatekeeper apparently had the audacity to, you know, gatekeep. For his trouble, he’s now staring down a suspension order.

Meanwhile, the gentleman who ordered that little unscheduled home invasion, the bureau chief, is somehow still sitting pretty behind his desk, suspension-free, sipping his coffee as if nothing happened.

Funny how that works. Symmetry, it seems, is for suckers.

Nosy Tarsee’s spies noted that the timing was perfect, too, all this under a freshly minted Ombudsman whose critics warned, practically the moment he was sworn in, that he’d make a fine attack dog for the Palace against its enemies.

Nosy Tarsee doesn’t believe in coincidence. If the rules cut both ways, both gentlemen must answer for their conduct. If they only cut one way, well, that’s not justice.

That’s just a hit list with a letterhead.