File under: Why couldn’t they have just gone as a Sexy Ketchup Bottle?

CNN "reports"

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Department of Homeland Security will investigate a Halloween costume party hosted by a top immigration official and attended by a man dressed in a striped prison outfit, dreadlocks and darkened skin make-up, a costume some say is offensive, the department's secretary said. … 

Julie Myers, head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and host of the fundraising party, was on a three-judge panel [Is that like the BIA?] that originally praised the prisoner costume for "originality."

Wait a minute.  Dressing in a prison costume is not original!  There are at least two dozen different types of commercially-available prison-uniform costumes.  (And they said I didn't need a research assistant!)  The costumes range from the sexy prisoner to the  prisoner that is sexy to the fat guy in stripes.

Perhaps dressing up as Judge Bybee (with a kazoo and waterboard – because he likes to torture people, you know) might be funny.  But come on, that still is not that original, because everyone knows about Judge Bybee and torture.  By the way, he is now some kind of adjuct at UNLV’s TTT law school.  I don’t know why some kind of elite person like him would want to associate with such a school, but I oppose torture, too.  Maybe they could dress up as John Yoo.  He could carry a waterboard, too.  Oh man, would that be hilarious!  They would look like twin surfers.

Update: It looks like they found a scapegoat, enabling all political appointees to avoid the shame of actually admitting that they think that minorities are criminals and should be placed on probation at birth.  (This suggestion was made by an actual political appointee.)  And, Ms. Myers has gone from calling the costume "original" to calling it "offensive."