The Unauthorized Randy “Duke” Cunningham Page

Interesting stuff . . . excerpts from http://www.overgrow.com/edge/showthread/t-719412.html

“Wade had a somewhat more succinct and instructive view of the impact of his political dispensations . According to a former MZM employee, Wade explained that he focused his lobbying efforts on a handful of influential members of congress that he had bankrolled such as Cunningham: "The only people I want to work with are people I give checks to. I own them."

“What Cunningham in his obduracy never realized was that he was just an interchangeable part, a legislative errand boy, fetching home pails of contracts every fall when the appropriations bills come due. No special talent required. Almost anyone could do it. In the end, the congressman was expendable, so that the Enterprise might endure forever. The Pentagon and its contractors and numberless parasites have many available to shoulder the Duke's duties.”

By - Jeffrey St. Clair is the author of Grand Theft Pentagon: Tales of Corruption and Profiteering in the War on Terror.