THE KASS COUNCIL is now officially a disaster. Leon Kass’s Presidential Council on Bioethics was supposed to advise the President on issues like cloning. But the President came out against cloning without waiting for the Council to come up with any recommendations. Now a member is complaining. And he’s right. I tried to give Kass and his council the benefit of the doubt in a column I wrote back in January. I shouldn’t have bothered.