Key Point

(Fox News) - Republican Senator Ted Stevens has told a colleague that he offered to give the FBI a key before agents raided his Alaska home Monday — but that they apparently preferred to break in.

Idaho Republican Larry Craig says Stevens told him an FBI official refused Stevens' offer of the key — saying the Bureau had ways of getting in. Agents showed up Monday with a locksmith and used that method of entry — in front of the assembled media.

Craig says it is appropriate to question the FBI's motives — "They appeared to stage an event for the sake of publicity ... It would be very intimidating to me."