Could this bring us back to the "Rathergate Saga"? Nah.
According to TPM, this:
Earlier today, World Net Daily
reported what it called a big development in the Miers story. That development involved a guy named Larry Littwin, a fellow who's been under a gag order and prevented from talking about his role in a scandal that took place on Harriet Miers' watch at the Texas State Lottery Commission.
Marshall confirms...
The sourcing on the original story seem a little opaque to me. So I spoke to sources up on the Hill who confirmed that this is in fact true, that GTECH has agreed to allow Littwin to testify.
Thanks to Marshall, this Village Voice piece suggests the tale that might yet be told...
In a subsequent 1999 lawsuit, Littwin claimed Gtech was engaged in questionable dealings through its chief Texas lobbyist in 1997,
Ben Barnes, former state lieutenant governor.
Barnes hit the headlines during Bush's first campaign because he supposedly was the man who got young George out of the draft and into the Texas National Guard, a charge he denied. Littwin's suit was eventually settled for $300,000. Barnes's deposition, in which the National Guard matter was mentioned, disappeared.
The question is whether Miers was dispatched to the state lottery commission to cover up a mess on the verge of being brought to light by a whistleblower. We may never know.
Maybe we will. See Rathergate here as well as this: George W. Bush military service controversy. But, of course, who knows; however, we might find ourselves saying, "who knew" fairly soon.
Update: choice quotes from the WND article in these comments below.
Update: Lotto Trouble by John Fund here. He concludes...
Despite all of these minefields and doubts about her qualifications, some Washington observers still believe Ms. Miers will be confirmed. "There are only two ways that she loses," says Fred Barnes of The Weekly Standard. "One is if some GOP Senators go see Karl Rove, and then President Bush, and say she's just too much weight to carry. The other is if safe Democratic senators embarrass her by asking tough questions that stump her.
But another possibility is that both political parties' desire not to turn up old scandals--whether they be the Lottery Commission or who exactly did fake those Air National Guard memos that appeared in the same "60 Minutes" segment as Ben Barnes--prompts senators to suggest privately to Mr. Bush that Ms. Miers withdraw. It's a cliché, but doubly true in this case, that politics makes strange bedfellows.