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Spies, Corruption, and Oral Sex

by BooMan
Tue Apr 17th, 2007 at 04:10:26 PM EST

Wow. This is gonna be interesting. From Ken Siverstein:

I recently received an advance copy of Seth Hettena's Feasting on the Spoils: The Life and Times of Randy “Duke” Cunningham, History's Most Corrupt Congressman, which will be published this July and which I highly recommend. In addition to being a terrific piece of political reporting, the book is filled with juicy details concerning the seamier side of the Cunningham affair, otherwise known as “Hookergate.”
I was particularly interested in stories Hettena unearthed about Kyle “Dusty” Foggo, whom former CIA director Porter Goss had named as executive director, the agency's number-three official. Foggo resigned last year not long after FBI agents raided his home and office. The Feds suspected that Foggo, who was later indicted, had funneled CIA contracts to his long-time friend Brent Wilkes, the defense contractor who is accused of bribing Cunningham with money and prostitutes.
Some of the more sensational stories in Hettena's book—and he has on-the-record sources—got me thinking. First, didn't Foggo's frequent indiscretions (for example, flashing his agency ID to jump the line at a strip club) raise red flags about his character? Second, wasn't Foggo's outlandish sexual behavior—like, say, publicly performing oral sex on a hooker (hired by Wilkes) at his own bachelor party—just the sort of thing that makes intelligence officials potentially vulnerable to blackmail by a hostile spy service? Third, might it be possible to cynically point to such revelations and use them as a hook for a blog item that combines sex and espionage?

I am so impressed with the way the Bush administration vets it's high ranking employees.

Spies, Corruption, and Oral Sex | 7 comments (7 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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the military and intelligence services look askance at hiring openly homosexual people ("Don't Ask, Don't Tell") because their sexual activities make them liable to blackmail, IIRC...when someone who is open about their sexuality is probably the least likely to be blackmailed.

Hmmm...wonder what Mrs. Foggo thinks about that bachelor party incident...the spouse's "bachelor party" was far tamer -- in fact, his best man wondered why he didn't bring me along...

"Mr. Bush, you do not own this country!" -- Keith Olbermann, 1/2/07

by Cali Scribe on Tue Apr 17th, 2007 at 04:19:18 PM EST

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Performing oral sex on a hooker? I thought it was usually the other way around....I mean, why pay?!

Ick.

by Second Nature (denn1214 at gmail) on Tue Apr 17th, 2007 at 04:47:06 PM EST

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without digressing to thinking about who and what might have occupied that slot the last week/day/hour, I think the point of paying is not having to snuggle afterwards, lie on the wet spot, etc. Paying is sort of the tacit approval that you can just up and leave.

by white n az on Wed Apr 18th, 2007 at 01:36:46 AM EST
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Re: Spies, Corruption, and Oral Sex (none / 0)

fatiguegate!!-- I think that we are getting close to overload. How many of us unwashed can run the litany of all of the disgraces that these pieces of shit have imposed on us over the last 6 years.
Maybe it is time to for someone to just post a straight out no frills list of all the disgraces. My only suggestion would be that it is presented in Chrono order.
billjpa

by billjpa (billjpa@aol.com) on Tue Apr 17th, 2007 at 07:45:55 PM EST

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Lest we forget Claude Allen.

Did you forget Claude Allen?

a Bush judicial-nominee-wannabe and morals adviser almost within the Oval Office itself ... busted for a fake retail receipt scam for electronic goods in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Note well that in Maryland (where Allen did his scam and lives, but is not licensed to practice law locally), an attorney was once disbarred for putting a slug into a parking meter. Stealing 25 cents from the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore! I mean, the inner circle of the White House and GOP is beginning to look more criminal that the probation rolls of Baltimore City.

Please check out Crablaw's Maryland Weekly for your Maryland commentary and snark needs.

by Crablaw on Tue Apr 17th, 2007 at 10:53:42 PM EST

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OK - now I'm confused here...

I am so impressed with the way the Bush administration vets it's high ranking employees.

I'm of the opinion that guys that give women head would be a refreshing change for Bushies...sort of evidence that they're not all Mark Foley closet types.

As for as blackmail...Clinton has already put the 'Get Out of Jail, Free™' card on the table for the next player.

Now if this were to make the statement that he begged for the golden...

by white n az on Wed Apr 18th, 2007 at 01:34:06 AM EST

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Just as long as we're clear that this has nothing, nothing to do with why Carol Lam was fired.

The more control, the more that requires control. This is the road to chaos. -Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment

by chimneyswift on Wed Apr 18th, 2007 at 11:37:37 AM EST

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