Bush administration bribes native American tribes to stay out of environmental suits

The print edition of today's NY Times has a story by William Yardley entitiled "Deal Gives Money to Tribes" which describes how the Bush administration has struck a deal to give four native American tribes almost one billion of your money to stay out of any environmentalists lawsuits trying to protect fish in the Columbia River system. I've searched for this article unsuccessfully in the on-line edition where it seems not to have been published. Hence no link.

For a billion dollars, I might agree not to sue as well.