BIMBO CORRUPTION?
Posted on 05/08/2006 7:23:03 PM PDT by Lunatic Fringe
ABC NEWS HAS LEARNED THAT KYLE "DUSTY" FOGGO, THE NO. 3 MAN AT THE CIA, HAS RESIGNED
Hey, I already posted a thread on that. But it's OK. Maybe yours will get more interest.
May 8, 2006 — ABC News has learned that Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, the hand-picked executive director of the CIA under Porter Goss, has resigned — the same day as his boss's replacement was announced by the White House.
Foggo is at the center of a swirling storm of corruption allegations — and there are suggestions that the scandal, which involves poker parties, sweetheart contracts and prostitutes — could spread, further tainting the agency. His resignation may serve to tamp down some of the damage to the agency itself as an FBI criminal probe and a CIA inspector general's investigation continue.
Earlier today, the White House announced that Gen. Michael Hayden had been picked to replace Goss, whose resignation came at the end of last week.
ABC News' Christopher Isham reported today that a respected veteran CIA officer — Stephen Kappes — had already been asked to return to the agency as Hayden's right hand. Kappes had left the agency when Goss was appointed as its head. Insiders told ABC News that the news of Kappes' expected return is likely to be a huge boost to morale.
Goss had refused to remove Foggo from his powerful post after Foggo came under investigation by the FBI and the CIA Inspector General.
A CIA official said Foggo's resignation would be "pretty normal" following the resignation of Goss as director.
The choice of Foggo to run the agency's day-to-day activities has been cited as an example of Goss' mismanagement of the spy agency.
Before being handpicked by Goss, Foggo had been written up for insubordination by his supervisor, the highest ranking African American woman in the CIA.
A CIA official confirmed the incident but said the insubordination report was never formally filed.
The supervisor, Jeanette Moore, resigned shortly after Foggo was promoted by Goss.
Foggo recently admitted that he attended Washington, D.C., poker parties that figure in a widening corruption scandal involving a defense contractor, Brent Wilkes, who is a longtime friend of Foggo.
Federal officials are investigating whether Wilkes also provided prostitutes at the parties. Foggo has denied seeing any prostitutes at the parties he attended.
Oh, sorry bout that.
Isn't this the guy they were talking about last Friday that everyone expected to resign because of a scandal?
IMHO a lot of people in the CIA should resign.
Bleeding? Hardly...
This is the coagulation phase.
The moral of the story is don't play poker in the same building where prostitutes are wondering around.
"FOGGO" resigns from FOGGY bottom.
"He (Stephen Kappes) served in dangerous and difficult postings in Moscow and Pakistan. Towards the end of his tenure with the CIA he reported directly to President George W. Bush as the CIA's point man in secret high-stakes negotiations with Libya that ended the rogue state's weapons-of-mass-destruction programs.
Kappes joined the CIA in 1981 after five years as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. During his Agency career, Kappes has studied and speaks Persian and Russian."
Sounds good to me.
In other words, don't play poker anywhere in Las Vegas.
Or is that the State Dept?
Wow, did you see this?
Got that precisely right -- especially when one of them is sitting in your lap -- and another one is bringing drinks to the poker table.
Come on, man.
Upon which planet do your reside?
(Obviously, some of the posters here have never done duty in D.C.)
"Foggo recently admitted that he attended Washington, D.C., poker parties"
big whoop.
"The supervisor, Jeanette Moore, resigned shortly after Foggo was promoted by Goss."
Well, sounds like ABC just outed an agent. Time for a investigation.
With gas at nearly $4/gallon, illegals infiltrating like banana rats in Cuba, out of control deficit, and a corrupt organization called the UN operating out of New York, who truly cares.
Oh gosh, I guess I was asking for that one to be posted again!
Dusty Foggo....is this the hobbit thread?
Hey, you sound like a fellow former GTMO resident.
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