Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's staffer allegedly hired a hacker to delete crack-smoking video

In embarrassing news out of Canada today, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admitted to smoking crack cocaine about a year ago, "probably in one of my drunken stupors," but vowed to remain in office. The confession — which came after months of dodged questions and denials by Ford, his staffers, and his brother — appeared to be the climax in long-simmering political scandal; a scandal ignited in May by the US news website Gawker, which first reported to have seen a recent video of Ford smoking crack coc...