Prostitutes, the CIA, and the horny politicians

Who's sorry now?

The wives and families of these sleazebags - Dusty Foggo, Brent Wilkes, Duke Cunningham. We posted about this last year. PS - where's Porter Goss in all of this? Remember him? Another idiot the Bush Administration dug up from the bottom of the heap....

The visual of your husband or father trying to get it up for prostitutes - paid for by the CIA - is pretty grim. Any Viagra involved in this, ya think? Yuck, old white guys trying to be studly is not something you want to think about too often. Full indictment here

102. On or about August 15, 2003, at approximately 5:00 p.m., defendant WILKES instructed an ADCS [Wilkes’s company] employee to obtain two prostitutes for that evening and later provided the employee with $600 in cash to pay for two hours of their services (not including tip);
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104. On or about August 15, 2003, at approximately 11 p.m., Prostitutes “A” and “B” and their “driver” arrived at the Hapuna Suite. Pursuant to defendant WILKES’s instructions, an ADCS employee [who was probably thinking, “I went to college for this?”] escorted the prostitutes into the Suite and paid the driver $600 in cash;

105. On or about August 15, 2003, after approximately 15 minutes in the suite, defendant WILKES and coconspirator [Randy “Duke” “The Dukester” “Extra Randy” “His First Name Makes It Sound Like He’s Sexually Aroused, You See”] Cunningham escorted Prostitutes “A” and “B” upstairs to separate rooms. At approximately midnight, WILKES tipped Prostitute “A” $500 for the services;

Cheney did it - He outed Valerie Plame

Who's in pretty big trouble now?

That would be Dick Cheney, the biggest dick of all, who outed Valerie Plame. Here's some real good Hardball video. PS: we've predicting Dick resigns and Condi becomes VP in postition to make a Presidential run. Bolton or Negroponte go to State.

Ari Fleischer and the death penalty

Who's afraid the death penalty could be applied to him now?

Ari Fleischer, former White House spokesperson, requested immunity in order to testify in the Libby trial. Here's why from Penisto:

It turns out Ari Fleischer will be the next witness, once court resumes Monday [Jan. 29, 2007]. The defense team wants to note — for the jury’s benefit — that Fleischer demanded immunity before he would agree to testify, because this might cast Fleischer’s testimony in a different light.

And here Fitzgerald makes a nice little chess move: Fine, he says, we can acknowledge that Fleischer sought immunity. As long as we explain why. Turns out Fleischer saw a story in the Washington Post suggesting that anyone who revealed Valerie Plame’s identity might be subject to the death penalty. And he freaked. Of course, if Fleischer was this worked up about it during the time period in question, that suggests Libby would have been, too. (Which again undermines the notion that Libby had much bigger fish to fry.)

Can we extrapolate from this that the normally uber-unctious Fleischer was feeling a wee bit — what’s the word — guilty?

CIA blocks Dusty Foggo criminal investigation

Who's stalling a federal criminal investigation of the Central Intelligence Agency's former third-highest official, Dusty Foggo now?

That would be the CIA. Hey, Dusty saw what happened to his dopey partner, the Dukester, who's in jail until he DIES. That isn't where party boy Foggo wants to go, f'sure.

CIA Digs In Its Heels

A federal criminal investigation of the Central Intelligence Agency's former third-highest official has stalled because of CIA reluctance to turn over classified documents requested by prosecutors, people close to the investigation say.

The U.S. attorney's office in San Diego has been investigating former CIA Executive Director Kyle "Dusty" Foggo to determine whether he committed illegal acts in influencing the awarding of CIA covert contracts. Mr. Foggo resigned from the CIA in May 2006, shortly after The Wall Street Journal disclosed the investigation.Among the contracts under investigation is one the CIA awarded to the company of a lifelong friend of ...

Contractors fill the vacuum and win wars

On the day it's announced that Saddam will be hanged, we thought it might be a good idea to revisit a terrific new book, License to Kill, by Robert Pelton. We posted about this last month, highlighting the Contractor's Creed (gotta love it!).

Here's a lengthy book review on what the contractors do, who they are, how the work with the CIA, etc.

AT...While some may still not have an interest in understanding the brave new world of private military and security contracting, they can no longer claim they lack the means. If the US intelligence establishment could connect dots as well as Pelton, Osama bin Laden would have been captured years ago.

Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror by Robert Young Pelton. Crown Publishers, September 2006. ISBN: 1400097819. Price US$24, 358 pages.