US authorities on a mission

The crackdown has started, announces Russel Hotten on telegraph.co.uk. Bets are off, says The Economist. The Peter Dicks case is about "gambling by computer", not telephone bets as in BetOnSports, and the arrestee is an investor/non-executive director, not motor-mouth Carruthers. Whether it'll affect the Senate process - which The Economist says is likely to stall - is another matter.