Pharmaceutical firm spied on top FDA official/ Politico and Mercola.com

From Politico, this story of how over $100,000 was spent to dig up dirt on the head of FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research:

For more than two months in late 2008, private investigators working for a drug company gathered information on a high-ranking official at the Food and Drug Administration — unearthing details about her husband, two daughters and in-laws  and retracing her steps on a business trip she took to Thailand.

The drug company, Amphastar Pharmaceuticals Inc., paid more than $100,000 to Kroll, the New York-based private investigative firm, to uncover the information about Janet Woodcock, director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, who oversees the agency’s new-drug approvals...