Is it too early to start calling this one “[tag]hookergate[\/tag]”? Just asking.<\/p>\n
Following up on yesterday’s revelations<\/a> about corrupt defense contractors bribing former Rep. Duke Cunningham with prostitutes and use of a nearby “hospitality suite,” the question now turns to who else<\/i> might have taken advantage of the same “services.” Ken Silverstein at Harper’s new blog has done some digging<\/a>.<\/p>\n I’ve learned from a well-connected source that those under intense scrutiny by the [tag]FBI[\/tag] are current and former lawmakers on Defense and Intelligence committees — including one person who now holds a powerful intelligence post. […]<\/p>\n As to the festivities themselves, I hear that party nights began early with poker games and degenerated into what the source described as a “frat party” scene — real bacchanals. Apparently photographs were taken, and investigators are anxiously procuring copies. My heart beats faster in fevered anticipation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n A former lawmaker from the Intelligence committee who “now holds a powerful intelligence post”? Let’s see, [tag]Porter Goss[\/tag] was chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and is now the director of the CIA. Yes, he of “Somebody sends me a blue dress<\/a> and some DNA, I’ll have an investigation” fame.<\/p>\n What’s more, Justin Rood pointed<\/a> to a Goss-[tag]Wilkes[\/tag] connection that’s gone overlooked.<\/p>\n Remember that Goss is the one who plucked one of Wilkes’ old San Diego friends, the unusual and colorful Kyle “Dusty” Foggo<\/a>, out of CIA middle-management obscurity to be his #3 at the agency. At the time of Foggo’s appointment, no one could figure out where he came from, or how Goss knew him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n