More "Duke" Cunningham fallout

San Diego Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham resigned from Congress late last year afther pleading guilty to charges of accepting over $2 million in bribes. Shortly after his tearful exit, it was pointed out that for a year and a half he has been wearing a wire as he went around doing Republican business as usual.

Many of the government contracts that "Duke" handed to his friends were classified, so we aren't likely to learn much about them. But one thing he apparently did was to arrange for Kyle Dustin (Dusty) Foggo, a long time close friend of contractor and briber Brent Wilkes, to be promoted to the third ranking position in the CIA when Cunningham's Congressional friend, Porter Goss, was appointed from Congress to the position of CIA Director.

Foggo had been the chief of the agency's regional support base in Frankfurt from 2001 to 2004 before being promoted. In that position Foggo was apparently instrumental in getting a CIA contract given to to one of Wilkes's corporations to supply water to CIA personnel in Iraq during the U.S. invasion in 2003.

Since Cunningham must now testify against the people he dealt with in order to reduce his own federal sentence, Wilkes is in real trouble and Foggo is likely to join him. What's going to be interesting is how much further the criminality goes. I just want to see it all exposed prior to the election in November.

[Source Larry Johnson published at Booman Tribune.]

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Additional Sources provided by SusanHu:

"Duke of Deception: The Overlooked Security Implications of the Cunningham Scandal," The American Prospect, February 2006.

"Black Contracts," The American Prospect online, December 10, 2005.

"Cunningham Inquiries Not Finished," (sub. req.) National Journal, December 10, 2005.

"Conflicts of Interest: Cunningham, Wilkes and the CIA, Cont'd," Tapped, December 5, 2005.

"Duke Cunningham and CIA Contracts" Tapped, November 29, 2005.