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Foggo Indictment Expected; Dark Day for the CIA

February 13, 2007 10:22 AM

Abc_wnt_foggo2_060502_nr_1 Federal prosecutors in San Diego are expected today to announce indictments in a case that involves the former No. 3 official at the CIA, Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, officials tell ABC News.

Foggo, who served as the CIA's executive director, was accused last year by fellow CIA employees of steering contracts for the CIA station in Iraq to longtime friend Brent Wilkes, a defense contractor whose activities also led to the indictment of former Republican Congressman Duke Cunningham.

Officials said today's expected indictments will also include Wilkes.

At his home in suburban Washington, D.C., this morning, Foggo declined to comment to ABC News.

Wilkes' lawyer, Mark Geragos, also declined to comment. 

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If Foggo is indicted, it will represent a dark day for the CIA and is expected to lead to a full congressional investigation of how secret CIA contracts are awarded.   

Foggo was promoted from a field logistics position to the powerful No. 3 position by Porter Goss when Goss took over the CIA.  Goss resigned shortly after ABC News reported that Foggo was under criminal investigation, although officials say none of the allegations involve Goss.

At the time, officials close to Goss dismissed the investigation of Foggo "as existing only in the blogosphere" and tried to discourage ABC News from reporting the story.

Photos See the players in the CIA corruption case.

February 13, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (15)

User Comments

Republican Democrat, they're all the same no matter what. They all profit off of war and other people's suffering. He'll receive a light sentence at a resort/prison and a pardon eventually. Big deal!!!!

Posted by: kingeedorah | Feb 13, 2007 10:51:59 AM

Tip of the iceberg; the tip of the iceberg. This, sadly, is as much of the reason for our difficulties in Iraq as the botched planning. And we all know the corruption goes all the way to the top.

Posted by: Sage Thrasher | Feb 13, 2007 11:13:24 AM

"At the time, officials close to Goss dismissed the investigation of Foggo "as existing only in the blogosphere" and tried to discourage ABC News from reporting the story."

what a stupid, stupid thing for goss to do/say.

Posted by: pgw | Feb 13, 2007 11:13:32 AM

...investigation of Foggo "as existing only in the blogosphere"...funny how the bloggers knew but the big boys at ABC wouldn't pursue this.

Kind of like the pre-war intelligence that took the country to war. Probably why people are so angry at msm.

I wonder, what is Porter Goss doing these days? Better check the blogs, they are months ahead of corporate media-sometimes years.

Posted by: PrissyPatriot | Feb 13, 2007 11:21:40 AM

Ever so slowly . . . the truth comes out.

When the prosecutors read the indictments, the charges won't have been created by "the blogosophere," but instead by professional investigators. Let's keep that in mind.

Posted by: chuck | Feb 13, 2007 11:29:58 AM

Guess "CIA" stands for "Crime In Action". Hope the Congress blows this wide open.

Posted by: Michael | Feb 13, 2007 11:31:23 AM

officials close to Goss dismissed the investigation of Foggo "as existing only in the blogosphere" and tried to discourage ABC News from reporting the story.

print the names, these people tried to cover up criminal activities at the highest levels of our government. Why are you a journalist? For the money? LOL

Posted by: SSquirrel | Feb 13, 2007 11:54:03 AM

Ya know, one big problem in this ever unfolding story here is that Brent Wilkes, the war profiteer who has been the corrupter of so many greedy government officials, still walks free. While there is no prison term long enough to punish those who are in the governement and try to steal our money, those that intice them to do so are certainly culpable, if not eqaually so.

What has to happen is that Mr. Wilkes needs to be thrown in jail, and more importantly, and this should go for all those who are convicted of stealing tax payer money, all of their money and assets should be taken away.

Posted by: normanx | Feb 13, 2007 12:02:12 PM

Republican crimes and coverups are nearly a daily occurence. The party is corrupt to their core.

Posted by: Mike | Feb 13, 2007 12:06:11 PM

It's murderous criminals all the way down through the ranks of the Bush regime. How many of our boys and girls have been maimed or killed because of Bush's way of rewarding the "faithful"? I am sure that Bush is too disengaged from his job to have had firsthand knowledge of all the crooks he appointed. On the otherhand he must have remembered that old Texas cowboy song that goes - "if you're gonnna eat your crackers in bed, you're gonna have to sleep with crumbs."

Posted by: geneonlbk | Feb 13, 2007 12:20:11 PM

hhhmmmm... So, this administration and it's agencies' appointees provided intelligence to justify, and are executing, an unnecessary war that they, and their cronies, are profiting from immensely? Both legally AND illegally?
Not to mention the sky rocketing deficit and the thousands of lives lost... hhmmm...
I guess all of us in Iowa should be relieved the president wasn't invovled in some half-baked real estate deal, or putting the moves on a horny intern! Then we'd have to impeach him.
This isn't patriotism, it's organized crime. I think my grandfather is probably spinning in his grave like a turbine.

Posted by: Roy Wood | Feb 13, 2007 12:22:19 PM

The US government, the Pentagon, and the US intelligence agencies are as corrupt as any "Banana Republic." After all, the US government's fondness for right-wing dictatorships created the "Banana Republics" in the first place, and it was inevitable that the USA would eventually become a Banana Republic itself. The US government, the Pentagon, and the US intelligence agencies perpetrated the 9/11 attacks to provide an excuse for the phony "War on Terrorism" and the US aggression for oil in the Middle East.

Posted by: Gregory F. Fegel | Feb 13, 2007 12:54:57 PM

Jeepers, thought abc (What an appropriately named network anymore) had been trying to deny this store for a long time.

Unca Mickey's gonna be mad! Better find the rubber adult baby pacifier before DisneyCo's board of directors finds out you're not playing ball with the Bush creeps!

Posted by: Lamb Cannon | Feb 13, 2007 2:17:18 PM

Just another example of the most corrupt regime in US history. Iraq has always been about looting the US treasury, massive sales of weapons, lining Halliburton's pockets, oil for Exxon, but never about democracy for millions of Iraqi's whose lives Bush has made miserable. Sadly, 30% of Americans would STILL vote for George Bush indicating that 100 million Americans have to be incredibly dumb.

Posted by: MrQuestion | Feb 14, 2007 6:20:59 AM

"Sadly, 30% of Americans would STILL vote for George Bush indicating that 100 million Americans have to be incredibly dumb."

When it is said that 30% would still vote for the president, it is meant that 30% of the voting public still support the president not that 30% of the population!

Some of the not to bright will believe all that they want to believe.

Connecting this to bush is a bit of a stretch to say the least.

Posted by: Mr Zeee | Feb 14, 2007 9:53:30 AM

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