TED STEVENS GETS INDICTED!!!!

Sen Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, has been indicted on corruption charges, CBS News has learned.

The FBI, working with an Alaska oil contractor, secretly taped telephone calls with Sen. Ted Stevens as part of a public corruption sting it was reported late last year, according to people close to the investigation.

The secret recordings suggest the Justice Department was eyeing Stevens long before June 2007, when the Republican senator first publicly acknowledged he was under scrutiny. At that time, it appeared Stevens was a new focus in a case that had already ensnared several state lawmakers.

The recorded calls between Stevens and businessman Bill Allen were confirmed by two people close to the case who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is still under way. They declined to say how many calls were recorded or what was said.

Ted Stevens is going to jail!

For those of you not familiar with the career of the Senate's longest serving Republican:

Ted Stevens has taken criticism for a wide variety of positions and actions taken in the Senate. This includes placing a secret hold on a bill that would allow easier accountability and research of all federal funding measures, describing the Internet as a "series of tubes", and supporting perceived pork barrel projects such as the Gravina Island Bridge and the Knik Arm Bridge (collectively known as the "Bridges to Nowhere" by their opponents). He threatened to resign from the Senate if Congress targeted Alaska's annual transportation funds to help repair Louisiana in the wake of Hurricane Katrina damage. The funding in consideration would have been redirected from funds restricted by Congress for Alaskan bridges. Citizens Against Government Waste is a frequent critic of Stevens' affinity for pork and keeps a list of his projects.


His Wikipedia entry

good riddance to bad rubbish.

i told the rnc that until the gop purges sh*t weasels like this from their midst they're not getting a penny from me.

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not a cent.

my responses to their letters of late (actually since mid-2006) usually begin with "dear dumbasses."

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Yeah. But that thing with the prosecutors didn't turn out so good for the Republicans.

In fact, nothing has really turned out too good for the Republicans since the Berlin Wall fell.

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yeah, i was gonna say, other than '06, it's been a pretty doggone good ride considering that the berlin wall fell in '89.

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vickers will win the primary and probably pull out a narrow general election win. unless he's been f*cking seals.

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Just asking:

Did Senator Stevens declare this two hundred fifty grand on his tax forms as income which it most certainly is?

I have heard nary a peep about this possibility, one way or the other.

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