Liberia, Aug. 10 -- President Boakai has given his own Minister of Justice 48 hours to report on his own drug chief. That deadline is the easy part. The harder part - the part that will tell Liberians whether "no sacred cows" was ever more than a good line in a good speech - is what he does with the answer once it lands on his desk.

WE GIVE PRESIDENT BOAKAI CREDIT for the 48-hour order. Asking the Minister of Justice for a detailed report on the allegations against LDEA Officer-in-Charge Fitzgerald Biago, on a fixed timeline, with his own name attached to the demand, is more than his government has done for most of the officials swept up in this scandal. It suggests, at minimum, that the president understood how badly this allegation - a...