Billmon:
As long as it’s only a contracting scandal (with the added fillips of sex and spies) this really isn’t much more than a surreal variation on standard operating procedure in Jack Abramoff’s Washington — even if the call girl angle does get the cable news juices flowing (so to speak.)
But it’s at least possible that the intersection of sex, money and official secrecy will turn this story into something much more special. Who knows? Depending on how high the guest list goes for Wilkes’s poker-and-prostitution soirées, this might even become the redneck equivalent of the Christine Keeler affair ..