Oh my, Senator Di!

The right-wing blog storm troopers are up in arms. The March 21 issue of San Jose Metroactive, a weekly distributed free in San Jose area stores, ran an article by one Peter Byrne titled Feinstein resigns.
It opened with the following:

SEN. Dianne Feinstein has resigned from the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee. As previously and extensively reviewed in these pages, Feinstein was chairperson and ranking member of MILCON for six years, during which time she had a conflict of interest due to her husband Richard C. Blum's ownership of two major defense contractors, who were awarded billions of dollars for military construction projects approved by Feinstein.
As MILCON leader, Feinstein relished the details of military construction, even micromanaging one project at the level of its sewer design. She regularly took junkets to military bases around the world to inspect construction projects, some of which were contracted to her husband's companies, Perini Corp. and URS Corp.

Well, there's at least one big problem with this story: There's no public record of her resignation. The fact is she wasn't on the subcommittee roster at the start of the session in January. See 01/07/2007: Byrd Cochran Announce Subcommittee Rosters 110th Congress at http://appropriations.senate.gov/pressroom.cfm.
Oh, one other inaccuracy: Author Peter Byrne's "extensive" investigation consists of one article: Senator Feinstein's Iraq Conflict, which ran Jan. 24, 2007.
Also noteworthy: Byrne has no comment from Feinstein in his resignation story. So apparently the writer made no effort to get the other side of this story. (A side note: We emailed Byrne about the lack of comment from Feinstein in his story. We've yet to receive a response.)
Right-wing dittobrains, however, are up in arms since it's become a talking point with Hannity, Limbaugh and other radio big mouths.
How come the "left wing" mainstream media is hushing this up, they ask? (They seem not to have noticed that neither Fox News NOR Drudge has reported this either.)
That said, the fact is a story like this will not stay down if it's true.
Do we think it is? We'll admit it bears looking into. However, Feinstein was on the subcommittee when the Republicans were in power. Why didn't they see it?