WASHINGTON - Law enforcement officials executed search warrants Friday on the house and office of the CIA's outgoing executive director, theFBI said.
The agency's third ranking official, Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, has been under investigation by the FBI, IRS, Defense Criminal Investigative Service and the CIA's inspector general, 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.
In a statement, CIA spokeswoman Jennifer Millerwise Dyck also confirmed the searches of his home and office on Friday morning.
"The agency is cooperating fully with the Department of Justice and the FBI," she said. "Agency leaders outside of the (inspector general's office) were informed just prior to the execution of the search warrants, in keeping with standard law enforcement procedures."
I'm not sure what the FBI is going to find, but the fact that they are searching Foggo's home and office is not good. This is going beyond the Duke Cunningham scandal of bribery for congressional favors. This is even going beyond the HookerGate scandal, of congressmen and government officials playing poker and cavorting with hookers in the Watergate Hotel. This has become another example of the "culture of corruption" within this Republican Party-controlled government, where legislative and government favors, business deals, and no-bid contracts are traded in such cavalier fashion. It is incredible.
And now it is imploding upon themselves. I wonder what the FBI is going to find in their search?
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