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Roll Call also reports on a more likely source of Jack's downfall - a re-energized Public Integrity Section at the Justice Department. Under the leadership of Noel Hillman, who took over in 2002, the department "has more than doubled the number of federal corruption cases it has brought to the courts in the past four years."

TPM readers who are wishing, hoping, and praying that Abramoff, like Duke, wore a wire, will be cheered by this passage:

Hillman told Roll Call that along with inspectors general and the FBI, federal investigators have adopted a more widespread use of wiretaps, surveillance and other secretive investigative techniques.

'If we've been more aggressive, and I think we have, one of the ways we've done that is to be more aggressive in the ways we investigate the cases: the more effective use of cooperators, the more effective use of undercover techniques, the consensual recordings.'"

http://www.tpmcafe.com/story/2006/1/9/428/51719