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Friday, I noticed that Tom Daschle was handling foreign affairs for then-Senator Abourezk when Gwendolyn Myers, accused of spying for Cuba along with her husband, was also on the Abourezk payroll and when in 1977 Abourezk took two South Dakota basketball teams to Cuba. I thought the trip, if she worked on it, would have given her an opportunity to make contact with Cuban intelligence agents, for it occurs to me that she must have had such contact before an agent made his way to Pierre, South Dakota to formally enlist Gwen and her husband in the service of Cuba...

Editor's note: In collaboration with the hard-hitting Washington, D.C., news weekly Human Events, WorldNetDaily brings you this special report each week. Readers can subscribe to Human Events through WND's online store. Linda Hall Daschle, wife of Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., has lobbied since 1997 for some of the U.S. government's largest contractors. According to federal lobbying records, Mrs. Daschle represents Boeing and United Technologies on Capitol Hill, even as these interests depend on her husband's official acts in the Senate for their federal contracts. The income Mrs. Daschle ultimately derives from her clients also enters the Daschle family...