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Talk about your summer reading.
I was particularly interested in stories Hettena unearthed about Kyle “Dusty”
Foggo, whom former CIA director Porter Goss had named as executive director,
the agency’s number-three official. Foggo resigned last year not long after
FBI agents raided his home and office. The Feds suspected that Foggo, who
was later indicted, had funneled CIA contracts to his long-time friend Brent
Wilkes, the defense contractor who is accused of bribing Cunningham with money
and prostitutes.Some of the more sensational stories in Hettena’s book—and he has on-the-record
sources—got me thinking. First, didn’t Foggo’s frequent indiscretions
(for example, flashing his agency ID to jump the line at a strip club) raise
red flags about his character? Second, wasn’t Foggo’s outlandish sexual behavior—like,
say, publicly performing oral sex on a hooker (hired by Wilkes) at his own
bachelor party—just the sort of thing that makes intelligence officials
potentially vulnerable to blackmail by a hostile spy service? Third, might
it be possible to cynically point to such revelations and use them as a hook
for a blog item that combines sex and espionage? … ..(snip)
Back to Dusty Foggo: In addition to stories in Hettena’s new book, I’ve previously
reported that Foggo had behaved very badly while based in Honduras in the
early-1980s, when the CIA was using the country as a base for covert programs
in Central America. He was said to be a regular at a Tegucigalpa bar named
Gloria’s and at a casino at the Maya Hotel, both places known at the time
as hooker hotbeds.Whether Foggo had official dealings with prostitutes in Honduras or not,
this was clearly a big problem. “Dusty would have been the perfect target
of a counter-intelligence operation,” said one official who worked in
Honduras at the time. “He had access and knowledge, and was reckless
and visible. You’re only vulnerable if you make yourself vulnerable, and that’s
what Dusty did.”
All the sex surrounding the Administration, Republicans, as well as the 109th
Congress was too good to miss. Pedophiles,
child porn addict,
Brian Doyle,
oh my, which I’ve reported
on before. But this book, which evidently includes some dirt on the CIA, sounds positively scandalous, especially
where “Dusty” and his cohorts are concerned. It’s out in July. I love
the title: Feasting
on the Spoils: The Life and Times of Randy “Duke” Cunningham, History’s
Most Corrupt Congressman.
However, when you think about the top Republican ’08ers and all their indiscretions,
added into it the Ted Haggard syndrome that leads to gay crack pimping hookers,
it’s hard to
see how we should trust these guys with national security. At least Rudy’s cross-dressing is already out of the bag.
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