Foggo’s Fooked

Ah, the escapades continue.  From YahooNews:

The CIA’s third ranking official, Kyle “Dusty” Foggo, has been under
investigation by the FBI, IRS, Defense Criminal Investigative Service,
the CIA’s inspector general and the U.S. attorney’s office in San
Diego, said FBI spokeswoman April Langwell in San Diego.

Under a sealed warrant, officials searched Foggo’s Virginia home and
his office at the CIA’s Langley, Va., campus, Langwell said. She could
provide no other details.

The FBI and other agencies have been investigating whether Foggo
improperly intervened in the award of contracts to a San Diego
businessman and personal friend, Brent Wilkes, who has been implicated
in a congressional bribery scandal…

Wilkes has been described in court papers as an unindicted
co-conspirator in a plot to bribe then-Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham, a
California Republican who is now serving time in a federal prison for
taking $2.4 million from government contractors.

FBI agents also have been investigating whether Wilkes provided Cunningham with prostitutes, limousines and hotel suites.

Foggo has acknowledged participating in the poker parties at the
hotel rooms, but he has said there was nothing untoward about that. “If
he attended occasional card games with friends over the years, Mr.
Foggo insists they were that and nothing more,” the CIA statement said.

Lovely.  So anyway, I’m watching the History Channel with my oldest son (he’s 13) and we’re watching a documentary about fighter pilots and dogfighting in particular.  While the documentary goes into the history of aerial dogfights they focus on one in particular during the Vietnam War and it features fighter pilot Randall “Duke” Cunningham.  Of course during one segment of the interview I point out to my son that the pilot is now in jail and when he asks me why, and I tell him, I can see in his eyes that I’ve helped speed him along the road to disillusionment.  If my kids make it to adulthood without being overwhelmed by cynicism I’ll consider it a minor miracle.


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