The FBI Is Not A Dump Truck

It's a series of investigators:

Federal law enforcement agents raided U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens’ Alaska home in Girdwood on Monday, hauling off undisclosed items from inside and taking extensive pictures and video. Officials wouldn’t say what they were looking for or what they found.

“All I can say is that agents from the FBI and IRS are currently conducting a search at that residence,” Dave Heller, the assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s Anchorage office, said Monday.

Investigators have been looking at Stevens' house, which he remodeled (and doubled in size) in 2000 at little or no personal cost to him. Bill Allen, the CEO of Veco, oversaw the project, and a couple months go he pleaded guilty to bribing lawmakers in Alaska.

Stevens has been in the Senate since the 1950s. He's an institution in the state and he got there by bestowing billions in largesse and porkbarrel money. I'm not sure he really NEEDS to be bribed. So we'll see what's going on here. But the FBI doesn't do this without a darn good reason:

At least two dozen agents were involved. A half-dozen federal vehicles, including a white panel truck with a satellite dish on the roof, were parked in front of the house. At least 10 more federal vehicles were parked at the ski resort’s day lodge parking lot a couple of blocks away.

One agent could be seen carrying a full large black garbage bag out of the house and putting it in the white truck.

Plus, Bill Allen has already pleaded to bribing Stevens' son, a state Senator, to the tune of $243,000 in "consulting fees."

I wonder if jail is the right place for Stevens' Hulk tie.

UPDATE: Some of Stevens' earmarks are also being looked at.