It's a sign of where the story is going. You know that Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA), Chairman of the House Appropriations committee, is now under criminal investigation as part of the expanded Duke Cunningham probe. Tomorrow's Times has a lengthy piece on one of Lewis' key staffers-turned-lobbyists, Letitia White.

She's the next big thing.

White too has become a focus of investigators. She left Lewis' employ to go work for Congressman-turned-lobbyist Bill Lowery, who's deep into the Brent Wilkes-Duke Cunningham-nogoodnik network.

And as long as we're on the subject I want to make sure everyone saw and sees this crackerjack reporting TPMmuckraker's Justin Rood did on White ten days ago.