It's a dirty job. But someone's got to do it.

The San Diego US Attorney's office has been pretty much singlehandedly cleaning up US politics over the last year and a half or so -- mainly building out from the Duke Cunningham scandal but also following that trail of bread crumbs right to the heart of the CIA. Who knows whether that will continue now that the head of the office, Carol Lam, got axed for 'performance' issues that turned out not to exist. But the San Diego FBI office has also been a big part of the equation. And there's so much muck out there, now the San Diego office is setting up an 800 number for people to report public corruption (the number is actually 877-662-7423).

“The battle for honest services by our public officials cannot be won if only a few people are willing to be involved,” says San Diego FBI's chief Dan Dzwilewski. “The FBI needs the public's help if we are going to continue to be successful in protecting citizens' rights to honest services.”

In case you don't remember, when news came out in January that Lam was getting canned in the midst of her continuing investigation of Wilkes and Foggo, he told the local paper, on the record, "I guarantee politics is involved."

So this guy's no shrinking violet.