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Stevens indicted.

If A Senator Is Bribed and No One Reports It

Is it therefore not news?

Neither Young nor Stevens is on trial here, at least not directly. But it's not every day that a witness admits in open court to having bribed a sitting U.S. Senator, which is exactly what happened last Friday, when former VECO executive Bill Allen admitted that among the bad acts he had pleaded guilty to was renovation work done on Stevens' Alaska home. Stevens is not commenting.

It's not airport bathroom sex so there has been muted national media coverage of the Stevens revelation, but it's a case we're keeping a close eye on.

That's your liberal media for you.

Stevens' Home Searched

It feels like the entire Alaska GOP is involved in one form of corruption scandal or another.

Federal agents searched the Alaska home of Sen. Ted Stevens in a widening investigation of alleged public corruption in Congress and the Alaska state legislature.

Prosecutors are investigating whether Mr. Stevens accepted bribes or unreported gifts from oilfield-engineering firm VECO Corp., the Wall Street Journal reported last week. Another Alaska Republican, Rep. Don Young, is under criminal investigation in the same case, the Journal reported.

In the raid last night, Federal Bureau of Investigation and Internal Revenue Service
agents searched the senator's home near Anchorage, an FBI spokesman said. Mr. Stevens, the longest-serving Senate Republican, is a former chairman of the Appropriations Committee and has long been a powerbroker in Congress and the Republican party.

When your sole purpose of having power is to further that power - the Republican raison d'etre - this is what you get.