Kraske’s big scoop declines to name names

Basketball players pound their chest after a powerful dunk. The daily newspaper equivalent of the pec slap is the copyright symbol.

“©” made an appearance on the front page of Sunday’s Kansas City Star. The Steve Kraske-written story said the FBI is investigating Missouri lawmakers for trading favors for campaign donations.

Kraske’s sources are solid. Three lawmakers told The Star‘s chief political writer they had spoken with agents.

But Kraske, for some reason, declines to name possible targets of the investigation. A follow-up in this morning’s paper (co-written by Jason Noble) even seems to go out of its way to conceal the identity of a lawmaker “running political consulting businesses while in office with lawmakers as clients.”

Which leaves us to wonder whether he’s talking about former Speaker of the House Rod Jetton.