America the Corrupt Part II

The Center for American Progress said it better than I could:

SCANDAL-TIED CIA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR RESIGNS

CIA Executive Director Kyle "Dusty" Foggo "announced his resignation in an e-mail message to agency staff" yesterday, leading to further speculation that the recent CIA upheaval is "linked to the broadening bribe probe centered on disgraced former California GOP Congressman Randall 'Duke' Cunningham." Foggo's connections to Cunningham-linked defense contractors Brent Wilkes and Mitchell Wade are the focus of an investigation by the CIA inspector general, first made public in March; yesterday, the Washington Post revealed that the FBI is also investigating contracts negotiated under Foggo. (One of Brent Wilkes' companies, Archer Logistics, won a large contract to provide supplies to CIA agents in Afghanistan and Iraq despite having "no previous experience with such work, having been founded a few months before the contract was granted.")

Meanwhile, an "authoritative senior FBI official" told Congressional Quarterly that resigning CIA Director Porter Goss has not yet been interviewed by the FBI. "We're not at his door yet...not at his doorstep." Foggo is also the highest-ranking CIA official to admit he attended the controversial poker parties thrown by Wilkes where prostitutes were sometimes present. (Foggo even "occasionally hosted the poker parties at his house in northern Virginia," though he denies ever seeing prostitutes at the gatherings.) Over the weekend, Newsweek magazine revealed the identity of another former CIA official -- previously known only as “Nine Fingers” -- who reportedly attended the poker parties. The official, Brant Bassett, was the staff director of the House Intelligence Committee while Porter Goss was committee chairman.

Something smells and it isn't the stench from the neighborhoods in N.O. that still haven't been cleared...