You don't suppose...
that the sudden resignation of CIA director Porter Goss had less to do with the reshuffling of our intelligence organizations and in-fighting with Negroponte and more to do with the fact that the FBI and CIA Inspector General were about to swoop down on a top official personally appointed by Goss?
WASHINGTON - Law enforcement officials executed search warrants Friday on the house and office ofThat would be the congressional bribery scandal that forced confessed felon Duke Cunningham from office, which has recently apparently expanded to include the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, not the other one involving not-yet-convicted Tom Delay, in case you are keeping score at home.
CIA's outgoing executive director as part of an investigation into corruption involving agency contracts, the
FBI said.
The CIA's third ranking official, Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, has been under investigation by the FBI, IRS, Defense Criminal Investigative Service, the CIA's inspector general and the U.S. attorney's office in San Diego, said FBI spokeswoman April Langwell in San Diego.
Under a sealed warrant, officials searched Foggo's Virginia home and his office at the CIA's Langley, Va., campus, Langwell said. She could provide no other details.
The FBI and other agencies have been investigating whether Foggo improperly intervened in the award of contracts to a San Diego businessman and personal friend, Brent Wilkes, who has been implicated in a congressional bribery scandal.