TPM:
We now know that the federal employee alleging government misconduct in the Ted Stevens case is a special agent with the FBI, according to a heavily redacted version of the agent's complaint released Monday.
While working on Operation Polar Pen -- the wide-ranging probe into public corruption in Alaska whose most prominent catch has been Ted Stevens -- the agent "witnessed or learned of serious violations of policy, rules, and procedures as well as possible criminal violations."
Among the agent's more eye-popping charges -- which you can read here -- is that an unnamed government employee "accepted multiple things of value from sources," including "drawing/artwork, house-hunting assistance and employment for ___."
TPMmuckraker can't help but wonder how the artwork in question compares to Ted Stevens' salmon statue -- one of the unreported gifts that led the government to prosecute the elderly senator in the first place.
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Nice back up plan by the GOP. If the jurors find Uncle Ted guilty with the truth we'll use the FBI undercover agent to get the case tossed. Now one can only ask by would an undercover agent be used in the former Senators case knowing there was documents to prove his guilt. Who is the FBI working for anyway. In Jean Palfrey's case both Judges broke the law and the Prosecuter committ more crimes than most Mafia criminal yet no undercover agent used by the FBI. The Director of the FBI is in the White House's back pocket. Now Bush will have to give Ted clemency because of the 5 year waiting period for a pardon.
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