For a long time

For a long time a lot of us have wondered how it was that MZM, Inc., the highflying defense and intelligence contracting company of confessed Duke Cunningham briber Mitchell Wade managed to get its very first government contract ever from the Executive Office of the President (i.e., the White House) in July 2002. $140,000 for office furniture.

Now, Rep. Waxman (D-CA) asks.