For my first diary entry, I would like to ask for any comments on the origin of the phrase, "Culture of Corruption," as it is currently used in referring to Jack Abramoff, all of his fellow indicted and unindicted coconspirators, and the unchecked power of the Republican Washington Establishment that fostered it.
I would appreciate any information that would identify the first relevant mention of the phrase on the internet, in print, or first time you heard it mentioned. Or just let me know any suggestions on resources I could check if I hadn't been so slothful up to this point.
I do have my own theory, of course, it involves the Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist,(I know, some say she's better known as a stenographer)Susan Schmidt, who has said that a source for her original article on Abramoff was a lobbyist for an Indian Tribe. One possibility to consider is Larry Rosenthal, who may have passed on information or speifically, a letter from another person. As Abramoff said in Vanity Fair, he thought some information came from a "rival indian official," which is possibly referring to Bernie Sprague or Frank Cloutier.
As they say on the rez, mii gwetch!