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AP: CIA Buddy Landed Iraq Deal for Contractor
With Brent Wilkes speeding towards indictment, the AP churns up more details about his close friend Dusty Foggo, the former Executive Director of the CIA, helped him land a multimillion deal in Iraq.
The contract, previously reported to be worth between $2 million and $3 million, was a no-bid, unneeded deal to distribute water in Iraq. In other words, it was right up Wilkes' alley, since he specialized in selling unneeded and drastically overpriced equipment and services to the government via acquaintances like the now-incarcerated Rep. Duke Cunningham (R-CA).
The problem for Dusty Foggo, who left his senior post at the CIA shortly before federal agents raided his house, is that CIA officials, according to the AP, are saying that the recommendation to hire Wilkes' company -- which was headed by his young nephew and had existed for only a few months -- came from Foggo. The AP reported last week that prosecutors are planning to file honest services fraud and conspiracy charges against Foggo and Wilkes.
Of course, Foggo's lawyer has earlier said that he had no idea that the company had any connection to his best friend. Prosecutors must be pretty confident about how that story would play in front of a jury -- especially since Foggo reportedly told his poker buddies that "he may have tipped off Wilkes that CIA contracts were coming up for bid."
Comments (6)
Shawn Fassett wrote on February 6, 2007 8:02 PM:What's going on with the Porter Goss and to a lesser extent, Katherine Harris angles in this story?
whipsaw wrote on February 7, 2007 1:01 AM:What is the XD of the CIA doing with a 7.2 $MM personal mortgage note, and why didn't the agency look into it?
Duckman GR wrote on February 7, 2007 1:12 AM:That mortgage was Wilkes, not Foggo's.
So Foggo was simply a thief? I figured he was a dirty "wet" CIA agent, using Wilkes' companies as fronts for clandestine, illegal, and detrimental CIA ops.
Now it sounds like he was a crook, running his scams from the best place for such ops, "procurement."
Man oh man, what a gubment we got, a posse full of thieves, delusional nutjobs, ignorant bullies, amoral morons, and lord knows what else.
The Conservative Deflator wrote on February 7, 2007 10:48 AM:This is probably just the tip of the iceberg. The Bush II Administration will go down in history as the most corrupt - ever. When Henry Waxman and possibly Patrick Fitzgerald, finish their investigations, Nixon will look like a saint. Remember Enron happened on Bush's watch and they haven't even gotten to see Cheney's energy task force notes yet. I say every last one of them, down to Barney the family dog and Pickles, Bush's wife, belongs in a federal prison.
NEVERvoteRepublicanAgain wrote on February 7, 2007 5:43 PM:He's a RepubliCON isn't he? So of course, he lied, it's all part of being a RepubliCON. There is so much corruption in this "family values" party it's hard to keep straight.
And speaking of keeping straight. How many RepubliCONs have been or should be outed for their hypocracy of bashing gays when they themselves are gay. I guess it's do as I say, not as I do.
These RepubliCON reichwing criminals make me sick. They all belong in jail, staring with their leader, George Walker Bush, Worst President in US history right on down to "Dusty".
Don't forget to support Bush's Presidential library where several copies of "My Pet Goat" will be available to loan out to other RepubliCONs learning to read like our President. Otherwise there will be no books or papers at the library. Secrets, you know. Just like this and Porter Goss stories.
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