The language is, naturally, quite dry, but there is still much to glean from the reports, including what sort of compliance issues the NSA encounters, how often, and the mix between accidental, and willful issues.
The willful blindness issue has been spotlighted in the Mets case by Judge Jed S. Rakoff of Federal District Court in Manhattan, who is known for bucking conventional wisdom.
If signed by the governor, the law would also ban willful defiance suspensions issued to students in third grade and below.
Those afflicted with blind beliefs and profound short-sightedness seem to have risen to the top again in the form of willful ideologues and single-issue groups.
The citations against Rapetti include three willful violations, the most severe issued by the agency, and five serious violations.
Those citations, by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration, carried penalties totaling $220,000 and included three willful violations, the most severe issued by the agency.
The image of Sergeant Schultz, the bumbling prison camp guard from "Hogan's Heroes," has always been good for a boardroom chuckle, but being liable for "willful blindness" remains a serious issue from a corporate governance perspective.
But left in the cold by this outbreak of bipartisanship are House Democrats, who for months have been accusing the House leadership of dysfunction and a willful neglect of the jobs issue.
The O'Neill and Rubin Continue-The-MiShow Show certainly proves that this is not a left-right issue - the willful lack of awareness of the reality being experienced by so many Americans is truly bipartisan.
Her death, witnessed by horrified tourists at SeaWorld, sparked a public outcry against keeping killer whales in captivity, unprecedented media scrutiny of the industry, and a federal OSHA investigation that resulted in the issue of a "willful" violation against SeaWorld and the apparent end of allowing trainers to perform with killer whales in the water.
Whether deliberately or through a willful failure to follow the issue at all, Obama has thrown all of it away amidst an extraordinary stampede of over-the-top anti-pot posturing that makes Bush's drug war leadership look lazy by comparison.
