For the past five months, The Idaho Statesman has been working on a story about Larry Craig's sexuality, but it didn't have the corroborating evidence to go forward with the story until yesterday — when it was revealed that Craig, a Republican senator from Idaho, pleaded guilty to a public disturbance while allegedly soliciting an undercover police officer for sex.
Dan Popkey, politics and government columnist for the newspaper, talks with Robert Siegel.
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