street journal. i consider myself an investigative journalist. i try to look for the bad things in washington. people who or sometimes breaking the law but often pushing up against the law. i don t really have an exact definition. i sort of look for stories that if people picked up on that they would say that is wrong. five years at the law street journal. let me go back to march 31, 2006. lots of people in this town talk about this story to this day. has to do with somebody named emily miller. give us the beginning. this is the heart of the jack abramoff scandal. he was a big-time republican lobbyist back in the day, released about five years ago. he made a lot of money from clients telling them how influential he was with republicans on capitol hill, particularly with tom delay. in order to get in bed with the delay crowd, he hired a lot of people at of delay pose the office. he brought staffers to football games, baseball games, conserves. became one of the most p