Is the story about CIA #3 Foggo w/Prostitutes getting any MSM air time?

[Up2Late]

NPR had a long (3min 47sec) interview with Newsweek magazine's Michael Isikoff today about this, he laid it out in fairly good detail, during the first 1/2 hour of "All Things Considered" today.

Anyone hear or see any other coverage today on Cable or Network "news" in the last few days? :shrug:

I gave up watching that garbage a while ago.

Here's the link, if you're interested:

A Top CIA Official Retires Under Cloud of Suspicion

Listen to this story...(at link)

All Things Considered, May 8, 2006 · Even as its new chief
executive is nominated, the CIA's recently retired third-ranking
official is under investigation for possible improper relations
with a defense contractor. Newsweek magazine's Michael Isikoff
says federal investigators are investigating Kyle "Dusty" Foggo,
who until Monday held the post of CIA executive director.

The scrutiny is placed on Foggo's longtime links to Brent Wilkes,
a defense contractor who has been tied to disgraced
Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham's bribery case. In a recent article,
"Intelligence: Goss Goes Out -- But the CIA Struggles On," Isikoff
reports that the CIA is conducting its own internal investigation,
into whether Foggo helped steer contracts to Wilkes.

Foggo had served for decades as a CIA agent. Porter Goss, who
resigned as the chief of the CIA Friday, elevated Foggo into the
job of executive director when Goss came over form Capitol Hill to
the spy agency.

<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5391483>

[WhiteTara]

1. yes. So far cnn and msnbc that I've seen n/t

[Up2Late]

3. How much time would you say they spent on it?

Are they talking like they don't believe it, or like they do?

[WhiteTara]

5. msnbc had a full story

and cnn was a blurb. Both presented it as fact, no alleged, etc. After Foggo resigned it got more play.

[BuyingThyme]

2. Yes, it's come up enough times to where I know how to pronounce the name.

[leftstreet]

4. Looks like it was covered today on Lou Dobbs

from the transcript:

Well, new developments tonight of another high profile departure at the CIA. The man in charge of the CIA'S day-to-day operations Dusty Foggo is out.

Now, Porter Goss, who quit as CIA director on Friday, chose Foggo for the high-level post, and now Foggo is the subject of two separate investigations.

John Roberts reports.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JOHN ROBERTS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): The first investigation was launched by the CIA'S inspector general, looking into whether Dusty Foggo did anything wrong in awarding a contract to his long-time friend, defense contractor Brent Wilkes. The deal to provide water and other household items for CIA personnel in war zones like Iraq and Afghanistan, was worth some $2.4 million.

Foggo and Wilkes were also poker buddies, attending games that Wilkes had set up in hospitality suites at the Watergate Hotel and Westin Grand in Washington.

Clark Kent Ervin was an inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security.

CLARK KENT ERVIN, CNN SECURITY ANALYST: But often where there is smoke, there's fire, and certainly I think we've seen, over the course of the last few years, a lot of corruption in Washington, needless to say. And because we're talking about not just any departments but intelligence communities, it's particularly important that we take this seriously and investigate it thoroughly.

ROBERTS: Through the CIA spokeswoman, Foggo insists he did nothing wrong that government contracts for which he was responsible were properly awarded and administered. Foggo added that if he attended occasional card games with friends over the years, they were that and nothing more.

But Foggo's problems don't end there. The FBI is also interested in him, as it investigates outstanding issues in the Duke Cunningham bribery scandal. The feds want to know what Foggo's full relationship was with Wilkes, who is described as an un-indicted co-conspirator in the case of the disgraced Congressman. According to another suspect in the investigation, Mitchell Wade, who was operating with the FBI, Wilkes hired a car service to pick up prostitutes for Cunningham and drive them to the Watergate or Westin hospitality suites.

Foggo says he never witnessed any prostitutes at the poker games he attended and that any suggestion to the contrary would be, quote, "false, outrageous and irresponsible."

The car service, Shirlington Limousine, which shows this Virginia townhouse as its address, also denies any involvement with prostitutes. That point is significant because any wrongdoing could jeopardize a $21.2 million contract Shirlington holds with the Department of Homeland Security to provide employee shuttle buses and executive limousines. It got the contract, despite the fact its CEO, Chris Baker, has a criminal record.

Does that surprise the former inspector general of DHS?

ERVIN: It surprises me in the sense that this kind of thing shouldn't happen in any department, especially not in the Department of Homeland Security. On the other hand, the record of that department is very lax when it comes to vetting backgrounds, so in a way I'm not surprised.

ROBERTS: But DHS officials insist it's nothing out of the ordinary. They check the backgrounds of drivers, but not company officials. And they praised Shirlington for performing with, quote, "utmost professionalism."

(END VIDEOTAPE)

ROBERTS: If you get the sense that this is an extraordinarily tangled web, it's because it is. And that's why two months after Duke Cunningham was sent away to jail for eight years, the FBI and the CIA is still trying to unravel it all -- Kitty.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0605/08/ldt.01.html

[Up2Late]

6. kick n/t

:kick: