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32. Dusty Foggo’s Girlfriend, John Rizzo, and the Salt Pit

Thanks, again, hootinholler! Something else that's news to me, the Salt Pit deaths and Dusty Foggo's girlfriend:

Dusty Foggo’s Girlfriend, John Rizzo, and the Salt Pit

By: emptywheel Sunday March 28, 2010 11:31 am

EXCERPT...

Details of how Foggo got his girlfriend hired appeared in the sentencing documents for his conviction in the Brent Wilkes/Duke Cunningham case (they were included not just to show Foggo’s corruption, but also because, over the course of the case, Foggo had repeatedly claimed to be happily and faithfully married).

SNIP...

Now, there is no definitive reason to think there’s a link between Foggo’s decision that two lower level guys who killed a detainee in Afghanistan should get off with no punishment and his girlfriend’s remarkable career at CIA.

But it’s clear from both the AP story on the Salt Pit and Yoo’s response to the OPR Report that the Salt Pit death happened at least partly because of instructions that came from Langley, instructions that may have involved Rizzo directly. And we know that within weeks of the time Foggo saw the details CIA revealed in his sentencing memorandum, he decided to get all chatty with John Durham about the torture tape destruction (note, this was before Durham’s mandate was extended to include the Salt Pit death, so Foggo’s testimony couldn’t have pertained directly to this review). [font color="red"]We also know that DOJ started to have a “real problem” with Carol Lam’s investigation of Duke Cunningham and Brent Wilkes as soon as she asked for a search warrant of Foggo.[/font color]

Dusty Foggo got incredible levels of protection while in his last two years at CIA, protection that probably goes beyond what you’d expect of his senior position. With each new detail of his involvement in the torture program, it seems more and more likely that that protection extended at least in part from the role he played in covering up torture.

SOURCE: http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2010/03/28/dusty-foggos-girlfriend-john-rizzo-and-the-salt-pit/

Imagine that, torture. The stuff one learns when reading. Too bad the newspapers are going extinct and the thinking that goes with them. Someday soon, if the BFEE get their way, no one will even think to ask: "What about all the money being made by all the cronies up the food chain?"