“This news is outrageous.” That was the reaction of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to The Washington Examiner’s latest report on insider dealing at the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.

LaHood is a former congressman from Illinois, so it probably isn’t easy to shock him with tales of insider dealing in government. It is nice to know he is on the case of the interstate panel that runs the region’s airports, the Dulles Toll Road and Dulles Rail, the nation’s largest infrastructure project.