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CIA boss Goss is cooked Tied to contractor's poker parties -hints of bribes & women |
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/415304p-350961c.html
CIA boss Goss is cooked
Tied to contractor's poker parties -
hints of bribes & women
BY RICHARD SISK and JAMES GORDON MEEK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
WASHINGTON - CIA Director Porter Goss abruptly resigned yesterday amid
allegations that he and a top aide may have attended Watergate poker
parties where bribes and prostitutes were provided to a corrupt
congressman.
Kyle (Dusty) Foggo, the No. 3 official at the CIA, could soon be
indicted in a widening FBI investigation of the parties thrown by
defense contractor Brent Wilkes, named as an unindicted co-conspirator
in the bribery conviction of former Rep. Randall (Duke) Cunningham, law
enforcement sources said.
A CIA spokeswoman said Foggo went to the lavish weekly hospitality-suite
parties at the Watergate and Westin Grand hotels but "just for poker."
Intelligence and law enforcement sources said solid evidence had yet to
emerge that Goss also went to the parties, but Goss and Foggo share a
fondness for poker and expensive cigars, and the FBI investigation was
continuing.
Larry Johnson, a former CIA operative and a Bush administration critic,
said Goss "had a relationship with Dusty and with Brent Wilkes that's
now coming under greater scrutiny."
Johnson vouched for the integrity of Foggo and Goss but said, "Dusty was
a big poker player, and it's my understanding that Porter Goss was also
there \[at Wilkes' parties\] for poker. It's going to be guilt by
association."
"It's all about the Duke Cunningham scandal," a senior law enforcement
official told the Daily News in reference to Goss' resignation. Duke, a
California Republican, was sentenced to more than eight years in prison
after pleading guilty in November to taking $2.4 million in homes,
yachts and other bribes in exchange for steering government contracts.
Goss' inability to handle the allegations swirling around Foggo prompted
John Negroponte, the director of National Intelligence, who oversees all
of the nation's spy agencies, to press for the CIA chief's ouster, the
senior official said. The official said Goss is not an FBI target but
"there is an impending indictment" of Foggo for steering defense
contracts to his poker buddies.
One subject of the FBI investigation is a $3 million CIA contract that
went to Wilkes to supply bottled water and other goods to CIA operatives
in Iraq and Afghanistan, sources said.
In a hastily arranged Oval Office announcement that stunned official
Washington, neither President Bush nor Goss offered a substantive reason
for why the head of the spy agency was leaving after only a year on the
job.
"He has led ably" in an era of CIA transition, Bush said with Goss
seated at his side. "He has a five-year plan to increase the analysts
and operatives."
Goss said the trust Bush placed in him "is something I could never have
imagined." "I believe the agency is on a very even keel, sailing well,"
he said.
The official Bush administration spin that emerged later was that Goss
lost out in a turf battle with Negroponte, but Goss' tenure was marked
by the resignations of several veteran operatives who viewed him as an
amateur out of his depth.
White House officials said Bush would announce early next week his
choice to succeed Goss. Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden, Negroponte's top
deputy, heads the list of potential replacements, with White House
counterterror chief Fran Townsend also on the short list.
Negroponte "apparently had no confidence" in Goss, and Bush's Foreign
Intelligence Advisory Board was also "very alarmed by problems at the
CIA," said a congressional source involved in oversight of U.S. spy
agencies.
"Supposedly the \[Cunningham\] scandal was the last straw," the source
said. "This administration may be on the verge of a major scandal."
Problems at spy agency
Here are some other scandals in the CIA's recent history:
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A human-rights furor erupted in 2005 with revelations that the CIA had
set up secret prisons in Eastern European countries to interrogate
terror suspects.
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CIA Director George Tenet took blame for the since-debunked claim in
President Bush's 2003 State of the Union address that Iraq had purchased
enriched uranium from Africa — a major part of his case for why the U.S.
should go to war. Heavily criticized over questionable intelligence on
the Iraq war and terrorism in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, Tenet
resigned in 2004.
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Former CIA Director John Deutch's security clearance was suspended in
1999 because he improperly kept classified material on a home computer
vulnerable to Internet hackers.
#
A State Department official revealed in 1994 that the CIA covered up
what it knew about the role of a Guatemalan colonel, a paid informer, in
the slaying of rebel leader Efrain Bamaca, who was married to an
American citizen.
#
CIA agent Aldrich Ames spied for the KGB for nine years, until his
arrest in 1994, giving the Soviets the names of every undercover agent
the CIA had in Moscow, leading to the deaths of at least nine agents.
#
The agency was implicated in the Iran-Contra scandal, the Reagan-era
scheme to secretly fund Nicaraguan rebels by illegally selling arms to
Tehran.
Originally published on May 6, 2006
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: CIA boss Goss is cooked Tied to contractor's poker parties -hints of bribes & women |
07 May 2006 01:36:58 AM |
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In article <gd4q52hb5lfq2smb3e29e5safup6vamf32@4ax.com>,
stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/415304p-350961c.html
CIA boss Goss is cooked
Tied to contractor's poker parties -
hints of bribes & women
BY RICHARD SISK and JAMES GORDON MEEK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
WASHINGTON - CIA Director Porter Goss abruptly resigned yesterday amid
allegations that he and a top aide may have attended Watergate poker
parties where bribes and prostitutes were provided to a corrupt
congressman.
Ho-gate?
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
Contact - Throw a .net over the .com
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| User: "Michelle Malkin" |
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| Title: Re: CIA boss Goss is cooked Tied to contractor's poker parties -hints of bribes & women |
07 May 2006 04:21:08 AM |
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"johac" <jhachmann@sbcglobal.com> wrote in message
news:jhachmann-EA8A3E.23365806052006@news.giganews.com...
In article <gd4q52hb5lfq2smb3e29e5safup6vamf32@4ax.com>,
stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/415304p-350961c.html
CIA boss Goss is cooked
Tied to contractor's poker parties -
hints of bribes & women
BY RICHARD SISK and JAMES GORDON MEEK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
WASHINGTON - CIA Director Porter Goss abruptly resigned yesterday amid
allegations that he and a top aide may have attended Watergate poker
parties where bribes and prostitutes were provided to a corrupt
congressman.
Ho-gate?
How about john-gate? Nah, some of you guys might
not like that...
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: CIA boss Goss is cooked Tied to contractor's poker parties -hints of bribes & women |
07 May 2006 11:15:33 PM |
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In article <cPadndPvK-VjJsDZnZ2dnUVZ_tqdnZ2d@comcast.com>,
"Michelle Malkin" <hypatiab7@comcast.net> wrote:
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"johac" <jhachmann@sbcglobal.com> wrote in message
news:jhachmann-EA8A3E.23365806052006@news.giganews.com...
In article <gd4q52hb5lfq2smb3e29e5safup6vamf32@4ax.com>,
stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/415304p-350961c.html
CIA boss Goss is cooked
Tied to contractor's poker parties -
hints of bribes & women
BY RICHARD SISK and JAMES GORDON MEEK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
WASHINGTON - CIA Director Porter Goss abruptly resigned yesterday amid
allegations that he and a top aide may have attended Watergate poker
parties where bribes and prostitutes were provided to a corrupt
congressman.
Ho-gate?
How about john-gate? Nah, some of you guys might
not like that...
Now wait just a dadburn minute! Bad enough they name toilets after us,
but I'm sure that guys with other names enjoy the services provided by
the ladies of the evening. Guys named Randy or 'Dook', Porter, Donald,
*****, George, etc. Hmph!
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"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
Contact - Throw a .net over the .com
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| User: "Doc Smartass" |
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| Title: Re: CIA boss Goss is cooked Tied to contractor's poker parties -hints of bribes & women |
07 May 2006 03:35:52 PM |
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johac <jhachmann@sbcglobal.com> wrote in news:jhachmann-
EA8A3E.23365806052006@news.giganews.com:
In article <gd4q52hb5lfq2smb3e29e5safup6vamf32@4ax.com>,
stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/415304p-350961c.html
CIA boss Goss is cooked
Tied to contractor's poker parties -
hints of bribes & women
BY RICHARD SISK and JAMES GORDON MEEK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
WASHINGTON - CIA Director Porter Goss abruptly resigned yesterday amid
allegations that he and a top aide may have attended Watergate poker
parties where bribes and prostitutes were provided to a corrupt
congressman.
Ho-gate?
Pokergate/poke-hergate!
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Doc Smartass
Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them
up, at least a little bit.
--Edward R. Murrow
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| User: "Spliffard" |
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| Title: Re: CIA boss Goss is cooked Tied to contractor's poker parties -hints of bribes & women |
08 May 2006 01:01:00 PM |
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Doc Smartass wrote:
johac <jhachmann@sbcglobal.com> wrote in news:jhachmann-
Ho-gate?
Pokergate/poke-hergate!
Last chance Saloon .... liquor in front .... poker in the back
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Doc Smartass
Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them
up, at least a little bit.
--Edward R. Murrow
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: CIA boss Goss is cooked Tied to contractor's poker parties -hints of bribes & women |
07 May 2006 11:07:19 PM |
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In article <Xns97BC9EB372877askifyouwantit@216.77.188.18>,
Doc Smartass <gekido@astroskivviesboymail.com> wrote:
johac <jhachmann@sbcglobal.com> wrote in news:jhachmann-
EA8A3E.23365806052006@news.giganews.com:
In article <gd4q52hb5lfq2smb3e29e5safup6vamf32@4ax.com>,
stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/415304p-350961c.html
CIA boss Goss is cooked
Tied to contractor's poker parties -
hints of bribes & women
BY RICHARD SISK and JAMES GORDON MEEK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
WASHINGTON - CIA Director Porter Goss abruptly resigned yesterday amid
allegations that he and a top aide may have attended Watergate poker
parties where bribes and prostitutes were provided to a corrupt
congressman.
Ho-gate?
Pokergate/poke-hergate!
Hah! Hah! Excellent!
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
Contact - Throw a .net over the .com
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| User: "Kevin Anthoney" |
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| Title: Re: CIA boss Goss is cooked Tied to contractor's poker parties -hints of bribes & women |
07 May 2006 06:29:23 AM |
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johac wrote:
In article <gd4q52hb5lfq2smb3e29e5safup6vamf32@4ax.com>,
stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/415304p-350961c.html
CIA boss Goss is cooked
Tied to contractor's poker parties -
hints of bribes & women
BY RICHARD SISK and JAMES GORDON MEEK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
WASHINGTON - CIA Director Porter Goss abruptly resigned yesterday amid
allegations that he and a top aide may have attended Watergate poker
parties where bribes and prostitutes were provided to a corrupt
congressman.
Ho-gate?
I quite like Watergategate!
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kanthoney[a]dsl.pipex.com
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: CIA boss Goss is cooked Tied to contractor's poker parties -hints of bribes & women |
07 May 2006 11:07:50 PM |
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In article <sqidncf_-6OIR8DZnZ2dnUVZ8qqdnZ2d@pipex.net>,
Kevin Anthoney <kevin_anthoney@hotmail.com> wrote:
johac wrote:
In article <gd4q52hb5lfq2smb3e29e5safup6vamf32@4ax.com>,
stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/415304p-350961c.html
CIA boss Goss is cooked
Tied to contractor's poker parties -
hints of bribes & women
BY RICHARD SISK and JAMES GORDON MEEK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
WASHINGTON - CIA Director Porter Goss abruptly resigned yesterday amid
allegations that he and a top aide may have attended Watergate poker
parties where bribes and prostitutes were provided to a corrupt
congressman.
Ho-gate?
I quite like Watergategate!
Son of Watergate?
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
Contact - Throw a .net over the .com
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: CIA boss Goss is cooked Tied to contractor's poker parties -hints of bribes & women |
10 May 2006 07:42:48 PM |
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On Sun, 07 May 2006 21:07:50 -0700, johac <jhachmann@sbcglobal.com>
wrote in alt.atheism
In article <sqidncf_-6OIR8DZnZ2dnUVZ8qqdnZ2d@pipex.net>,
Kevin Anthoney <kevin_anthoney@hotmail.com> wrote:
johac wrote:
In article <gd4q52hb5lfq2smb3e29e5safup6vamf32@4ax.com>,
stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/415304p-350961c.html
CIA boss Goss is cooked
Tied to contractor's poker parties -
hints of bribes & women
BY RICHARD SISK and JAMES GORDON MEEK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
WASHINGTON - CIA Director Porter Goss abruptly resigned yesterday amid
allegations that he and a top aide may have attended Watergate poker
parties where bribes and prostitutes were provided to a corrupt
congressman.
Ho-gate?
I quite like Watergategate!
Son of Watergate?
Watergate II
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