May 12, 2006 6:12pm
Criminal Charges Possible Against Former No. 3 at CIA?
EmailFederal officials tell ABC News criminal charges against Foggo are considered likely, based on lavish vacations to Hawaii and Europe he has been said to receive in exchange for CIA contracts.
His attorney did not return calls for comment today but has previously denied that Foggo accepted bribes for rewarding CIA contracts.
Today was to be Dusty Foggo’s last day on the job at the CIA. But when he arrived early this morning at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, he was barred from the building and sent home as agents began to comb through his files looking for financial and travel records.
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Why is he taking such a fall? Isn’t this sort of insider treatment rampant in Washington these days?
Posted by: marc | May 12, 2006, 6:53 pm 6:53 pm
We saw this in the movies didn’t we? Of course no on can hold a candle to Robert Redford!
Posted by: J Corbin | May 12, 2006, 6:55 pm 6:55 pm
Shouldn’t we find this odd? This investigation and possible criminal charges on Foggo could be just a way to cover up what may really be going on within the walls of the CIA. The charges may very well keep Foggo from talking. I’m sure conspiracy theorists are going to have a ball game with this one. And if I sound like one, well, sorry. But with all the secrecy this current administration is known for, the wire tapping, collection of our phone records, and manipulation of intelligence, one cannot help but piece these things together and not conclude that our government is up to no good.
Posted by: Mike | May 12, 2006, 6:59 pm 6:59 pm
The current administration seems to be unraveling from within at ever increasing speed. With the high level of secrecy that this administration has maintained, how long will it be before someone comes forward and refuses to take a fall for King George?
Posted by: Doug | May 12, 2006, 7:16 pm 7:16 pm
Lavish vacations to Hawaii and Europe? The guy lived in Europe for seven years and his inlaws live there permanently. And his high school buddy has a place in Hawaii. I’m waiting for the trial, and the facts.
Posted by: Joe Turner | May 12, 2006, 7:30 pm 7:30 pm
Someone is going to talk..Too many irons in fire to threaten them all.Too many people know….Someone that still loves america and wont let them destroy her..
Posted by: pal | May 12, 2006, 7:53 pm 7:53 pm
EVERY president has used the same tactics as “W” , Why the hatered for this Pres. Interesting that this comes out just before the CIA appointment!
Posted by: Duane | May 12, 2006, 8:37 pm 8:37 pm
Basically this is the latest in a series of events that point to high level maneuvering in struggle between the legislative and the executive. There’s conflict on all fronts, the war, the borders, the dollar’s slide, Iraq’s mess, Iran’s problem, congress’ sinking approval rating (18%), and above all the president’s ever waning approval rating..29% last I checked- depending on the statistical methods used to control for error. Is it Washington politics as usual or one of the most significant struggles in the past decade or so. Let keep watching shall we?
Posted by: Zed K | May 12, 2006, 9:01 pm 9:01 pm
EVERY president has used the same tactics as “W” , Why the hatered for this Pres. Interesting that this comes out just before the CIA appointment!
Posted by: Duane | May 12, 2006 8:37:08 PM
Duane, no matter how many times you and other Bush supporters say it, every president has not used the tactics of “w”.
Posted by: smike | May 12, 2006, 10:15 pm 10:15 pm
It all to paint the Republicans bad , so the Democrats can get back into power , you know , with the Corporate Book Cooking , and their BRAND of corruption , cutting the Department of Defense in half , so American can get hit again ,,,, what good is a balanced Budget if we are all dead from the JIHAD ???
Posted by: Anthony Newbill | May 12, 2006, 10:42 pm 10:42 pm
their crimanalizing politics@!
this is just how the system works.
Both sides do it.
lobbying is perfectly legal.
/bush-clinton-bush
Posted by: bush-clinton-bush | May 12, 2006, 11:26 pm 11:26 pm
Hmm. This guy had access to detailed phone records of 10 million Americans. And he is easily bribed it seems. Not a stretch for them to go up for sale at some point.
Posted by: Chris Rivers | May 12, 2006, 11:28 pm 11:28 pm
Goss resigns without saying why. Foggo is being arrested. Do we really know why or is this a story? Valerie Plame’s identity leaked. The CIA folded in under DHS. Officers resigning right and left. Others leaking info on illegal detentions, secret prisons, renditions, etc. And now Bush wants to put a military man who was in charge of the NSA in charge of the CIA. I smell a very big rat. If even the CIA is retching from whatever it is they are being asked to do, then it is very rotten indeed. Can this country survive until the next election? Will there be another election – a valid, reliable one?
Posted by: W | May 13, 2006, 11:27 am 11:27 am
This investigation is being run by federal agencies which are headed by Republican hand-selected and appointed individuals.
This administrationo and this political party is all about GREED AND POWER AND THEY USE THE POWER TO GET THE PAYOLA.
If this man was getting the vacations, in order to SCREW AMERICA AND POTENTIALLY ENDANGER IT VIA INFERIOR WORK BY HIS FRIEND, THEN HE IS A TRAITOR.
If he and Porter Goss attended these poker, cigar, and pro you know what parties, they OPENED THEMSELVES UP FOR BLACKMAIL, AND THAT COULD ENDANGER THE ENTIRE COUNTRY.
Posted by: Brenda Thornton | May 13, 2006, 11:37 am 11:37 am
Why the hatered for this Pres. Interesting that this comes out just before the CIA appointment!
Posted by: Duane | May 12, 2006 8:37:08 PM
A cold shiver went down my spine when I read that….the ignorance is horrifying. Let me put this way. There would be no new CIA nomination/appointment if quaint little items like hookergate and ties to individuals convicted, indicted and under investigation hadn’t already surfaced. Get a clue dude….
Posted by: peterh | May 13, 2006, 11:41 am 11:41 am
Lets see here, because we are fighting wars abroad, we shouldn’t worry about balancing the budget? Right..way to hold them accountable for doing their freaking jobs. at least normal conservatives are starting to figure out that their party has been hijacked. btw, this isnt the same stuff as others who have been ‘lavished with gifts’. Foggo is implicated in what people are calling “HookerGate” where he attended poker parties put on by defense contracters (with the help of a contracted limosine company) where hookers and other ‘services’ were provided.
But lets for a second assume everything said before is true; that is, both sides do it. Does it really follow that you shouldn’t care? Shouldnt that be even MORE of a reason for you to care and crack down on it? Remember: the government works for YOU, they are YOUR employee. Is it okay to you that YOUR director of national intelligence and his #3 have possibly been implicated in bribary/prostitution scandals involving “The Dukestir” Cunningham (who happens to put bribery rates of defense contracts on a freakin business card)? Or–just maybe–should you be just a tiny bit outraged?
Posted by: wakeup | May 13, 2006, 11:43 am 11:43 am
Not even Nixon went this far is an attempt to dismantle the Constitution and Bill of Rights so blatantly while promulgating a succession of bald-faced lies and threatening the press with prosecution if they exposed him. Not every president has signed addenda to 750 enacted laws stating he doesn’t have to follow them. Not every president has spied openly on his own people while claiming he is doing it in the name of freedom. Not every president has the I.Q. of dead flashbulb battery. No, sir, we have finally hit rock bottom in American presidencies. This is beyond politics, this is blossoming dictatorship and needs to be checked, balanced, and disposed of.
Posted by: Wintergreen For President | May 13, 2006, 11:46 am 11:46 am
Anthony:
Our defense budget is now larger than all of the world’s countries combined, and it wasn’t much less than that under Clinton. Also note that the Afghan and most of the Iraqi wars were fought by a military that was build during the Clinton years.
Posted by: Jeffery Bahr | May 13, 2006, 3:27 pm 3:27 pm
Duane, I defy you to find one president in American history who has had the arrogance to approve laws sent him by Congress only to follow up the very act with signing Statements that say, in effect, that he does not have to follow these very laws if he doesn’t feel like it. And he did this over 700 times!!! How many fingers could he have had crossed when he took the oath the defend the Constitution?
Posted by: Rob | May 13, 2006, 4:18 pm 4:18 pm
Looks like Bush has turned the CIA into a cabal of incompetent cronies just like FEMA.
Posted by: michael moriarty | May 13, 2006, 5:30 pm 5:30 pm
It looks like a “limited hangout” to me — try to stem any further deeper investigation by quickly revealing the minor stuff so the really bad stuff does not get out. NOT SO QUICK, FEDS! There is far more corruption and massive illegality to be exposed here than what immediately meets the eye.
Posted by: ewastud | May 13, 2006, 6:02 pm 6:02 pm
Bush appointed Goss and Foggo. Now he’s going to appoint this crazy military person. Why does Bush hate America so much? Why does he hate New Orleans?
Posted by: Johnemr | May 13, 2006, 6:08 pm 6:08 pm
Cheney and the PNAC group are still calling the shots as far as I can see. They will all be multi millionaires when this is over.
And Duane, my poor naive little friend. You must not have been around very many Presidents if you think they all did what Bush is doing. Do you know bush has broken 750 Laws? Do you know that the Echelon spying was originally developed to spy on Soviet Union, and was not used on Domestic spying until 2002? Do you know that every other president believed in global warming and environment? Do you remember that Clinton had to fix what Reagan and Bush broke in their 12 years? Better not try and converse with the big boys until you get a few more years under your belt!
Posted by: Bergs | May 13, 2006, 7:29 pm 7:29 pm
Duane,
Yes, you wouldn’t have to look hard to find malfeasence in all administrations, but W has taken it to a new level…he’s the Michael Jordan of governmental corruption.
Posted by: Duck of Death | May 13, 2006, 11:48 pm 11:48 pm
Bush has chosen to surrounded himself with incompetent, unethical, and criminal people. Iraq, Fema, NSA, CIA, FDA, HUD, etc. etc. all stocked by Bush with ideological and incompetent cronies.
Bush is the tree that has produced all this rotten fruit. It’s time that tree was axed. Impeach the lying boy king.
Posted by: petewsh61 | May 14, 2006, 8:08 am 8:08 am
What happened to all the congressional oversite? Oh yeah, congress doen’t work much in DC anymore. “Impeach the lying boy king.” by all means Hell Yeah and re-elect an ALL NEW congress at the same time! I for one am just sick of all the bs going on in DC.
Posted by: skidog | May 15, 2006, 12:59 pm 12:59 pm
It seems vaguely familiar that they are using the old ruse of sex to oust this fellow. I would be willing to bet it goes deeper and he was a sacrficial lamb for the administration, to move the center of focus off the President’s current foibles.
Posted by: GMS58 | May 15, 2006, 1:45 pm 1:45 pm
When all things fail, try, try, again.
Posted by: Daniel Boone | May 16, 2006, 10:05 am 10:05 am
Howdy , I hope the Socialist Democrats can come to their senses and quit their Incompetent ways of just opposing everything Capitalistic , and start Promoting a Pro Small Business Free Market policy that Clinton ruined during the 1990s , that led to the Biggest Corporate Merger era in US history, a degradation of the Mom and Pop stores ( Small Business Sector) , over the 1990s , because of the 10 year Tarriff Free import Policy he wrote into law in 1995 , that didn’t end until 2005 , for crying out loud , was he in sane man ???? Now this policy has led the USA to trade deficits beyond belief , this man should be charged with a Crime , for writing such a Trade Policy , He actually Cut the Military in Half , which led to us becoming defenseless , had the CIA , FBI , and the NSA all cutting each others throats , Let the SEC look the other way when all the BOOK COOKING scandles were making everyone rich with Phoney Money , or Funny Money ,should we say, and then all the Socialist Democrats can do now is Bitch about why we are trying to stop the Growth of Terrorism , that grew without opposition during the Kick Back era of the Clinton years , common are we not going to stand up and say enough with the Liberal approach ???
Posted by: Anthony Newbill | May 24, 2006, 1:46 pm 1:46 pm