Ted Stevens, perhaps the most odious Senator in the history of the body, is going down.
FBI Agents Taped Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens As Part of Corruption Sting
MATT APUZZO
AP NewsSep 20, 2007 19:15 EDT
The FBI, working with an Alaska oil contractor, secretly taped telephone calls with Sen. Ted Stevens as part of a public corruption sting, according to people close to the investigation.
The secret recordings suggest the Justice Department was eyeing Stevens long before June, 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.
More as it comes, but right now, pass the popcorn.