VANITY FAIR-- WHO WILL BE THE NEXT REPUBLICROOK TO FACE PRISON FOR BRIBERY? + CUNNINGHAM'S PSYCHIATRIST SHARES A LOOK AT HIS WARPED, CORRODED MIND

I'd say the new issue of a VANITY FAIR has a pretty explosive corruption article-- if you follow politics. It starts with a paragraph about right wing imprisoned Republicrook Randy "Duke" Cunningham and how his case "exposed a world of bribery, booze, and broads that reaches into the Pentagon, the C.I.A., and Congress" and then asks "Who's Next?"

It's a long story and I'd suggest reading it (link is above). If you're too busy, let me summarize it for you. Despite the fact that the Abramoff scandal is just getting going, the U.S. Attorney's Office maintains that the Cunningham bribery case was historically "unparalleled." VANITY FAIR reminds us of 2 of the Republicrook bribers, Brent Wilkes and Mitchell Wade, neither of whom is in prison yet, and reiterates what DWT readers already know, that the "brains" behind all this bribery and tens of millions of dollars more was not the simple-minded and pathetic Cunningham but the far more devious Jerry Lewis (R-CA).

In seeking to answer the question of who will be the next government official making a federal penitentiary home, VANITY FAIR offers Lewis, Bush political CIA-appointee Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, Virgil Goode, Jr., and Katherine Harris. Nothing really new there; all 4 will no doubt be in prison sooner or later. But the beauty of the story lies in the eye-popping details and that's why I urge you to read it.

When Cunningham was caught like a rat but hadn't yet been charged, he understandably got depressed and started thinking about the ultimate cut-and-run (suicide). "He wasn't wholly to blame for his troubles, Cunningham later told Saul Faerstein, a Beverly Hills psychiatrist. He'd been led astray, his 'moral and religious values' perverted by unwholesome friends. 'He recognizes now that Wade and others in Washington were part of a culture of corruption,' wrote Faerstein, an expert for the defense in the O. J. Simpson trial, who was hired by Cunningham's lawyer in an effort to obtain a lighter sentence for his client. 'He is troubled he didn't see the motives of the people he trusted.' In fact, Faerstein wrote to the court, he found Cunningham 'naïve in some ways, always trying to see the best qualities in people.' Do you know that Cunningham wrote a 'bribe menu,' detailing how many hundreds of thousands he should be paid for defense contracts, right under the bald eagle on his House of Representatives stationery? I ask the psychiatrist. Did Duke tell you he tried to inveigle innocent people into covering up his moneymaking schemes? 'That was certainly quite damning…. But I never heard about that until later,' says the psychiatrist. 'I asked Cunningham's lawyer, "Why didn't you provide me with that information?" They told me they gave me what I needed…. I am not very happy I didn't know all the facts...' So, even as he was pleading guilty, Duke wasn't straight with you? I ask. 'No,' says Faerstein. 'If I'd known about those things, I would have seen he was not so much influenced by the culture of corruption as part of the culture of corruption.'"

I'm telling you, read the whole article (unless you don't like hearing Republicrooks talking about how they like screwing hookers in the ass). You'll learn all the details of how the Republican Party has turned into a vast criminal conspiracy to rob America.