Reddhedd at Firedoglake: Listen Carefully

Time Magazine is reporting that Duke Cunningham, the California Congressman who pled guilty to bribery and other corruption charges on November 28, 2005, cooperated more fully than anyone realized at the time of the plea. Turns out the Dukester wore a wire for the Feds.

Having a cooperating witness wear a wire is a standard practice when you have an ongoing conspiracy or web of criminal activity. Cops and prosecutors get warrants for this sort of thing all the time in drug and mob cases. But in Cunningham's case, the folks involved in the wire would have potentially been much more high profile fish: other folks in Congress, high-paid defense lobbyists and contractors, folks at the DoD...so many possibilities.