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Foggo: First Public Corruption Case in CIA History

May 12, 2006 1:42 PM

ABC News' Rhonda Schwartz contributed to this report.

The FBI raid on the home and office of the Executive Director of the CIA took place this morning, seizing business records, computer hard drives and other information in what is the first significant public corruption scandal in the history of the nation's premier intelligence agency.  Officials said the raid took place at 6 a.m. Agents from the FBI, the IRS, the Criminal Investigative Division of the Pentagon and the CIA's Inspector General's office were involved in the raid.

The outgoing Executive Director of the CIA, Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, announced his resignation last Monday -- the first business day after his boss, CIA Director Porter Goss, stepped down. In itself the move was unusual. In the past, the senior operational officers have always remained in place for several weeks or months while a new director moves in and acclimates to the Langley Virginia based agency's culture.

News of Foggo's hasty departure was first reported by ABC News Chief Investigative Correspondent Brian Ross, along with disclosures of a career marked by ethical lapses and documented insubordination long before Foggo's current place at the center of an FBI probe into sweetheart sole-source government contracts signed or overseen by Foggo and the possibility of kickbacks.

The Foggo criminal probe is being conducted parallel to an internal investigation by the CIA Inspector General, which is said to be reviewing each and every contract Foggo signed or oversaw during the time he headed a CIA administrative section and during a period where he was the chief logistical support officer at the CIA's largest resupply base which is located at a Frankfurt, Germany airbase.

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Hopefully this will be just one of a long list of corrupt politicians that will be thrown out of Washington. Let's keep the parade going, I am sick to death of these guys lining their pockets while corporations get large tax cuts and send their jobs overseas for cheap labor, and the American public is paying the price. Thanks Sue F

Posted by: Sue Filutze | May 12, 2006 2:10:28 PM

Good investigative reporting.
Didn't Bush and Cheney do sweetheart deals of the type that Foggo is accused of? Bush and Cheney hired Cheney's Halliburton Comapny.

Posted by: Russell Attoe | May 12, 2006 2:40:33 PM

Why does this not suprise me that yet another all white male run organization has huge problems with ethics? Throw the book at them, all of them have corrupted our country's institutions with their unethical and bias behavior - take their pensions and every benefit I had to pay through my taxes away from them.

Posted by: Diane East | May 12, 2006 2:54:35 PM

Once again, we see the abuses of unchecked power. Absolute power corrupts Absolutely. Hang em' high and set an example to all that the only gov't we need is a competent, managed one.

Posted by: Kole K | May 12, 2006 3:21:47 PM

I thought our laws were based on INNOCENT until proven GUILTY!! Or is it because it is an "All White Male run orginization" it is GUILTY just simply because of race and gender?? Is that not stereo typing people?

Posted by: Jim Shrove | May 12, 2006 3:46:50 PM

Why is it that everytime someone is accused of being corrupt; people jump to Cheney/Haliburton or All White Male club or outsourcing or Right wing conspiracy? Is it not also possible that he is innocent until proven guilty? Just because someone is under investigation does not mean they are guilty of what they are being investigated for.

Posted by: Steve | May 12, 2006 4:13:52 PM

Innocent until proven guilty.

Posted by: David Smythe | May 12, 2006 4:31:43 PM

What does it being a (purportedly) "all white male run organization" have to do w/ ethics? Are white males genetically prone to bad ethics? This smacks of racism and sexism. Talk about bad ethics. This guy, if he is accused of anything, is guilty not because he is "white" or "male" but because he is a bad person who has cultivated wrongful thinking and actions.

Posted by: John Martin | May 12, 2006 4:37:23 PM

Since when a CIA bureaucrat a "politician"? (Not that I'm opposed to throwing the politicians out of Washington, mind you. As someone once said, they're like diapers, in need of periodic changing, and for much the same reason.)

Posted by: Bill G. | May 12, 2006 5:37:46 PM

Crimes are not committed by races, genders, conservatives, liberals, etc, and no one has a "corner" on the bad ethics market. Crimes are committed by criminals and when they break the law they should be dealt with according to the law. Biggotry and hate on the other hand are committed by races, genders, conservatives, liberals, etc. The moment someone believes they are the sole answer and anyone different from them is the problem you cannot distinguish between right and wrong.

Posted by: Wendell Pidgeon | May 12, 2006 5:55:56 PM

I'm with the first post on this one, that's tax dollars well spent keep it up.

Posted by: David, Missouri | May 12, 2006 6:46:44 PM

Unfortunately, corruption will always occur where people are involved. No one is perfect. I'm not too upset with this, because it involves sweetheart contract deals, and not selling secrets to other countries, as has happened before. Lining your pockets with our money is still better than treason.

Posted by: Karl Morgan | May 12, 2006 6:48:52 PM

I read the complaint about all these "white" corrupt politicians, does anyone remember Mayor Marion Berry of DC?? I certainly understand the issue of getting the bad guys but doesn’t bringing the race issue up just cloud what’s really the problem? Further, CIA agents are NOT politicians. The nature of the agency they work for is such that you don’t ever hear all the good they do, you only hear when someone makes a mistake. On behalf of the thinking side of America I would rather thank them than just jump on the band wagon of finger pointing.

Posted by: Nick | May 12, 2006 7:00:11 PM

A comment was made that crimes are committed by criminals. The insinuation I get from that remark is that a "criminal" never changes and is incapable of being good. I'd much rather look at it this way - crimes are committed by PEOPLE who simply make mistakes, bad decisions, have bad attitudes, bad dispositions or selfish aims. The person is then not stuck in a permanent criminal state or labeled. Once we start putting labels on each other we then begin to not allow each other to grow or move beyond our bad behavior, mistake, or bad decision. One who has been labeled then must face constant friction from a society that will not allow them to move beyond the bad to cultivate a new good. They're prone to give in to their label and increase the rate of recidivism (sp?). A person who commits a crime has certainly also performed good and wonderful deeds for their family or others. As humans, we are more complex than any one label.

Posted by: Martin | May 12, 2006 7:34:33 PM

reforming a failed culture must include a true change.
Culture strategy must include setting time limit and accountability from this top. 100 % w/ Chief US Judge Harry Edwards, there is no institution (agency) and leaders above US constitution
Go ahead w/ Cox Nixon approval
Arthur Mboue

Posted by: Arthur Mboue | May 13, 2006 12:29:55 PM

Harold Ickles, after being with both Clinton man and Clinton woman, is still in need for more powerful fun. His suits are not better than those donated by the rich to churches,... May be it is why he was let go by Clinton, the man without notice. It is true, with this poor look of servant, the only option available to him now is posthumous followers with this headline 'send your check to Harold Ickles fund c/o Hubbell- of course former AAG will pocket all the money, so long)

Posted by: Arthur Mboue | Jun 2, 2008 3:41:58 PM

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