Gee, I was really sucked in too.
I noticed afterward that there was a second story also, not that it had any huge bombshells either. It's more like they want to fight he Bush National Guards story over again, see last paragraph of excerpt below.
Lotto Trouble
The Miers nomination pits a Swift Boat author against a Bush National Guard detractor--in reverse.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110007431
EXCERPT:
"The New York Sun has reported that Lawrence Littwin, a former executive director of the Lottery Commission, is eager to testify should the Senate subpoena him. Mr. Littwin claims that in 1997 Ms. Miers fired him after five months on the job because she was protecting GTECH, the controversial Rhode Island firm managing the lottery. GTECH had been mired in controversy for years, and in 1996 David Smith, its national sales director, was convicted in New Jersey in a kickback scheme involving a lobbyist.
Mr. Littwin has alleged that aides to then-Gov. Bush were worried that should GTECH lose its lottery contract, its top lobbyist, Mr. Barnes, would discuss efforts he claimed to have made to push a young George W. Bush to the top of the coveted waiting list for a pilot's slot in the Texas Air National Guard. (Mr. Barnes went public with those claims last year in an interview with CBS's "60 Minutes.") Lottery Commission officials, including Ms. Miers, never detailed the reasons for the Littwin firing. Last week, when the Houston Chronicle asked about it, the White House replied, "Harriet Miers has never commented and will not now on what was a personnel matter."
After his firing, Mr. Littwin sued GTECH, claiming it had helped him lose his job. He focused much of his discovery efforts on Mr. Barnes, who had two lucrative contracts with GTECH that brought him $3 million a year. In 1997, when GTECH let Mr. Barnes go amid the growing lottery scandal, he received a $23 million severance package. As part of the Littwin lawsuit, Mr. Barnes gave a deposition in 1999 in which he first told his story that Houston businessman Sidney Adger, a Bush family friend who died in 1996, had approached him to secure a National Guard slot for Mr. Bush. "