I'll tap mine, if you tap yours

Tap, tap, tap. Just out of curiosity...who doesn't tap their foot at some point in a bathroom stall? Who wouldn't find it a bit odd that someone taps back? Who wouldn't have their curiosity piqued enough to perhaps investigate this strange behavior?
Idaho Senator, Larry E. Craig, was charged with disorderly conduct after being accused of sexually soliciting an undercover police officer. The only evidence the policeman had was a few foot taps and gesturing under the stall. Craig pleaded guilty, however, and he claims that in retrospect he made the wrong decision because he actually had done nothing and was, in fact, not gay.
Did Craig do something wrong. Was he aware of the foot tapping code and were his intentions less than honorable? Or was merely a victim of wrong place, wrong time syndrome. In the August 29th edition of the New York Times, William Yardley reports that there have been numerous arrests in this specific Minneapolis public restroom regarding sexual activity. Yardley describes a Web site that "lists places for gay sex world wide". Next to the post about the Minneapolis airport there was a warning, "Airport police sting here in progress. Four arrests so far this week." A short time later another post appeared saying, "Twenty people were arrested within the past week". Undercover police were obviously staking out this specific place and perhaps even over observing or over reading actions. Perhaps we will never know if Craig is truly telling the truth, but would it hurt to give him the benefit of the doubt?
Lynne Duke and DeNeen L. Brown, Washington Post, quote John Davidson (legal director at Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund) as saying, " Don't the police at the airport have better things to do than sit in the bathroom? They're sitting there waiting to catch men trying to have sex with men...I thought we had reasons to be concerned about things going on in the airport other than that".
Does this issue really warrant enough attention to be on the front page of New York Times, to have thousands of Google News articles and to be the major topic of every blog? Is this fairly insignificant and unsubstantial accusation enough to destroy a man's career, destroy the faith of the Idahoans and to again shake up the Republican party with scandal and grief?