NEW DELHI, Jan. 15 -- I do not know Alok Kumar Verma. I do not believe I have ever met the twice removed director of our Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). We do not have mutual friends or share relatives. Discussions of his integrity or any lack of it leave me cold because I expect officials to have integrity as much as they are supposed to have intelligence and if they are charged with a lack of integrity, again, I am not particularly affected. I know enough of governments' ways to take accusations as reflecting anything more than whimsy, vendetta, malice and power games. Will he finally emerge unscathed from the ordeal of fire? I hope he does for I would like any official accused of wrongdoing to be able to show that she or he is inn...