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Another incident may help shed some light upon our law enforcement priorities, and how those priorities affect whether cops are really busy fighting crime, or instead preoccupied with the more profitable pursuit of making money off people like you and me (and whether the citizens might want to attempt to change their government's priorities). This next example, like the previous sections on the CIA and the U.S. armed forces, also illuminates the government's true priorities in its so-called Prohibition against freshly illegal drugs.

Within a year of returning to Knoxville, Tennessee, from wartimes with the US Air Forces in Europe in 1993, I met someone whose mother was abused in a domestic violence situation. It was a classic case of battered-woman syndrome, a tragic fatal attraction, and the victim's family had repeatedly begged her to leave once they learned of the man's violent history.

Guest: Ben Wolfinger, Clint Van Zandt, Gil Alba, Diane Dimond, Susan Filan, Daniel Horowitz, Robert Dunn, B.J. Bernstein

DAN ABRAMS, HOST:  Coming up, the person of interest in an Idaho triple murder passes a polygraph test.  The authorities rule him out as a suspect, but he provides some information that could help.

IT WAS right around the time Kristine Kupka moved from Madison that Rikki Glen, who was working here in retail management, decided she needed a career change.

Kupka left Madison in 1992 - having lived here a decade - and eventually wound up in New York City. By October 1998, Kupka was 28 and a senior at Baruch College in New York. She was two months from graduating, and her grade point average was 3.97. She was also pregnant.

Glen, meanwhile, had talked to an attorney friend about how miserable she was in the retail business. "Why don't you try being a private investigator?" he said. The attorney said he would give her some work, and as long as she was only working for one person she didn't need a license. She could give it a try and see what she thought.

Here's what's on tap for Wednesday:

Gary Mauro, former Texas gubernatorial candidate

Sen. Mark Dayton, D-Minn., Governmental Affairs Committee member

Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., Armed Services Committee member

Leon Panetta, former Clinton chief of staff

Rep. Bob Livingston, former Louisiana congressman

Alan Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania

Bill Kristol, editor of "The Weekly Standard"

Geraldine Ferraro, former vice presidential candidate

Gil Alba, private investigator

Yet That 'Help' In Missing-Persons Cases Often Raises False Hope

Carla Baron sits in her living room, eyes fixed on a blank wall and tarot cards spread in her lap. Then the visions come.A body floating face down underwater. Clothed, but coatless. Caught on a rock.A sickly, sweating, maladjusted stalker. A threat. A borrowed taxi. A river leap, and death.