Why Are the Feds Investigating a Senior GOP Senator?

The FBI and the Securities Exchange Commission are putting the personal finances of one of the Senate’s leading Republican voices on foreign policy under the microscope. Politico reports that the feds are looking into whether Sen. Bob Corker (TN) broke any rules when he failed to report millions in income and assets, including stock transactions, in his annual financial disclosures. The Wall Street Journal reported on the omissions last fall, and Corker, who entered the Senate in 2007 afte