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“Thirteen U.S. lawmakers, including two representing San Diego-area districts, are resisting subpoenas served by an attorney for Poway defense contractor Brent Wilkes, who is hoping their testimony will help in his upcoming trial on charges of bribing former Rep. Randy ‘Duke’ Cunningham.” [San Diego Union Tribune]

Duke Cunningham is snitching to the FBI in prison, which is bad news for Brent Wilkes. Cunningham: former congressman currently serving time for bribery and corruption and being a stupid jerk. Wilkes: Duke’s former best-bud contractor, currently facing two indictments and 30 counts of all sorts of misbehavior. Thankfully, Duke does not shy away from the aspects of his case that have always been of the utmost importance to Wonkette readers. MORE »

A long, long time ago, we were briefly obsessed with the bizarre tale of Dusty Foggo, the former Executive Director of the CIA, handpicked by Porter Goss, despite a career-long penchant for hilarious and public sexual misadventures. Foggo was eventually indicted for funneling money to a defense contractor (who’s accused of bribing Duke Cunningham — see, it’s complicated, you can understand why we switched to Mark Foley). There were also regrettably vague stories of hookers showing up to Foggo poker parties (at the Watergate!). MORE »

Since we are bloggers and thus TOTALLY FIXATED on accuracy and fairness, we feel a need to point out that, contrary to our earlier post on the subject, Jim Gibbons may in fact be the legal governor of the great state of Nevada. Turns out that Gibbons did in fact resign from Congress on December 31 — there’s even a letter — so his oath of office in his living room as governor later that night was legal, if totally insane. MORE »

So, we sort of put up this indictment thingie last night without letting you in on the full-on corrupt-politicians pay to do it with sexy ladies angle To save you the trouble of wading through the 42-page PDF file, here are the sexy parts, which are particularly sexy if you like your paid, anonymous sex to be so anonymous that the ladies you have sex with don’t have names but just letters. The gory details, after the jump.

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* Loveless House debate on Iraq will nonetheless be “full-throated.” [WP, NYT]
* Mitt Romney has everything you could want in a candidate, regardless of what it is you want. [WP, NYT]
* Duke Cunningham banged two Hawaiian hookers. Brent Wilkes paid them $1100. [WP, NYT]
* Online ad spending for the Presidential campaigns to total $80 million. Try not to cry if Obama doesn’t buy a banner on your dating blog. [WSJ]
* Libby trial gives country blue balls, Dick won’t testify. [NYT]
* Everyone on the Metro is either fiddling with a blackberry or a detonation device. [USAT]
* Snow has closed Georgetown University today. All of Douglass Feith’s “Plausible Deniability: 101″ students are directed to his op-ed. [WP]

Hooray for the slow march of justice for lesser Bush Administration figures! Former No. 3 CIA boss Kyle “Slimeball” Foggo and impossibly corrupt Duke Cunningham buddy/contractor Brent Wilkes have been officially indicted for many federal crimes including conspiracy, wire fraud, and money laundering. MORE »

Dusty Foggo and Brent Wilkes might be indicted today. Maybe. The internet said it, so it’s pretty much 50/50. MORE »