What an interesting coincidence

Josh Marshall and emptywheel both take note of an interesting coincidence: right about the time that the prosecutors in the Rep. Duke Cunningham corruption case were looking into efforts by top Department of Defense appointees "to set up their own domestic surveillance and spying operations . . . quite likely well outside the bounds of American law," including potential domestic surveillance of U.S. citizens through a program called TALON, in which key contracts went to Cunningham's bribers, "somehow the entire record of the TALON program, every report that had been collected, was scrubbed."