Investigation at the C.I.A. Looks for Favors Among Friends (Foggo/Wilkes/ Wenzel/Cunningham)

[Robbien]

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 — At a ceremony at C.I.A. headquarters four years ago, a logistical specialist named Kyle Dustin Foggo was awarded an intelligence medal. It was the agency’s way of saying thanks for running the airlifts that sustained the C.I.A.’s efforts in Afghanistan, including shipments of armored cars along with saddles and oats for horseback-riding covert operators in remote regions of the country.

Among the well-wishers at the event in 2002 were Mr. Foggo’s childhood friend, Brent R. Wilkes, a military contractor, and Representative Randy Cunningham, a Republican from Mr. Wilkes’s hometown, San Diego.

That day might have been a high-water mark for all three. Mr. Cunningham, whose nickname is Duke, is in prison after pleading guilty to accepting bribes from contractors. Mr. Wilkes, described in court papers as one of the contractors, is under investigation, and Mr. Foggo, who later became a top Central Intelligence Agency official, is under scrutiny for possible irregularities in awarding agency logistics deals to both Mr. Wilkes and another businessman, according to a recent Congressional report.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/05/washington/05foggo.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin

[Warpy]

1. If there is ever a complete investigation, Brent Wilkes

will be seen as a key player. Cunningham was just a corrupt tool. Foggo was a connection hound. Wenzel was a co pirate. Wilkes is the guy whose Group W was largely a group of dummy corporations that existed mostly in cyberspace, not much to bother with until Stupid got in and his dummies started to get fat DOD contracts. At the same time, those dummy outfits started being very generous to the RNC, right wing PACs and to right wing candidates across the country. In other words, they were laundering our hard earned money paid in taxes directly into the coffers of the Repuglican Party.

Some links are as follows:

http://www.pacificviews.org/weblog/archives/001706.html

http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2005/12/deeper-into-wilkesmzm-scandals-updated.html

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/12/10/114820/90

And finally, the Cunningham scandal is connected to the Delay scandal is connected to the Abramoff scandal, and Wilkes is the big fish/taxpayer money launderer they're all trying to protect.

http://www.campaignmoney.org/blog/2006/05/08/delays-wilkes-problem

So smile, we've all been scammed out of tax money to fund the GOP for years. It's why their campaign coffers are bottomless.

Is anyone ready to use the "r*" word yet?

*racketeering.

[acmejack]

2. It's worse than racketeering!

Just by gaming the political process on such a scale, it makes this like racketeering on steroids.

[stillcool]

3. what ever happened...

to Porter Goss? and why isn't Duncan Hunter tainted?