So here's a synopsis of the following documentation:
The CIA, as FEMA is....has been gutted by poor Bush appointment decisions and by partisan pressure on intelligence "results". Now we have a report that the stench of Wilkes and Wade threaten the potential (as if there is any, anyway) for the Bush appointment of Gen. Michael Hayden to direct the CIA, tobe any improvement over Goss.
1.Repub congressman Randy Cunningham pled guilty last November to accepting bribes from Brent Wilkes and his protege, Mitchell Wade.
2. Wade's MZM defense contracting sham employed former Gen. King, contracted by Gen Hayden to oversee creation of CIFA. King was then used by the white house to influence the Robb-Silberman Commission to recommended expanding CIFA's powers......all the time....Gen. King was on the now convicted Wade's MZM payroll.
3. Wilkes' sham defense contracting firm paid $600 thousand to Tom Delay's former chief of staff (and spiritual advisor....) Ed Buckham's sham lobbying firm, ASG. Buckham paid Delay's wife over $3000 per month to "work" a "no show" job at ASG.
4. Wilkes bribed Cunningham, and Porter Goss appointed a CIA unknown (Kyle Dusty Foggo) to the agency's #3 position, equivalent to the COO job at a corporation. Wilkes and Foggo, were best high school buds, best men in each others' weddings, and named their kids after each other. Wilkes ran a gambling and hooker patronage "Op" that was intended to reward congressmen who sold their offices to Wilkes. Foggo sometimes hosted the gambling part of the "Op" in his own home.
Wilkes used a limo service owned by a man with a 62 incident "rap sheet", to deliver the hookers and ferry around the congressmen and CIA staffers who attended the "events".
The Limo service received $21 million in contracts to transport Homeland Security Dept. Execs.
DHS said that they don't do background checks on their contractors. The <<,<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/05/AR2006050501613.html">Shirlington Limo service was not the low bidder</a>, ....the low bidder protested....but DHS stuck by the bid award.
<b>I am certain that I don't have all of it posted....much more will come out. If you keep voting for one party rule.....and dismiss all of this as "partisan" finger pointing, there will be more of this, "Bush style reform"!</b>
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1146...rst_element_hs
CIA Director Goss Abruptly Quits
Agency Has Been Rocked
By Leak Controversies;
No Reason Given for Exit
By CHRISTOPHER COOPER, SCOT J. PALTROW and ROBERT BLOCK
Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
May 6, 2006; Page A4
.....When Mr. Goss took over the CIA in September 2004, officials said they hoped he would bring rigor to an agency that had suffered tremendous morale problems in the wake of intelligence failures before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the run-up to the Iraq war. But instead, problems at the agency seemed to multiply, as insiders criticized the rigid management style of the former CIA agent and Florida Republican congressman. Mr. Goss was thought to have hastened the brain drain at the agency by reassigning much of its upper echelon when taking over, installing a new crop of managers.......
.....Mr. Goss's resignation also comes amid the controversy regarding the man he appointed to the CIA's third-highest post, Mr. Foggo. Mr. Foggo is under federal criminal investigation relating to the awarding of CIA contracts, people with knowledge of the inquiry said Friday.
When Mr. Goss became CIA head in 2004, Mr. Foggo was his surprise choice for executive director. Although Mr. Foggo had been with the CIA for more than 25 years, he had mainly been assigned to middle-management logistical and administrative jobs, and had never held any senior headquarters position.
Mr. Foggo has been a close friend since junior high school with Poway, Calif., defense contractor Brent R. Wilkes. The criminal investigation centers on whether Mr. Foggo used his postings at the CIA to improperly steer contracts to Mr. Wilkes's companies.
Mr. Wilkes earlier this year was implicated in the charges filed against Mr. Cunningham, as an unindicted co-conspirator who allegedly had paid about $630,000 in bribes to Mr. Cunningham for help in obtaining federal contracts.......
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http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000581.php
EXCLUSIVE: CIA Nominee Hayden Linked to MZM
By Justin Rood - May 8, 2006, 11:33 AM
While director of the National Security Agency, Gen. Michael V. Hayden contracted the services of a top executive at the company at the center of the Cunningham bribery scandal, according to two former employees of the company.
Hayden, President Bush's pick to replace Porter Goss as head of the CIA, contracted with MZM Inc. for the services of Lt. Gen. James C. King, then a senior vice president of the company, the sources say. MZM was owned and operated by Mitchell Wade, who has admitted to bribing former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham with $1.4 million in money and gifts. Wade has also reportedly told investigators he helped arrange for prostitutes to entertain the disgraced lawmaker, and he continues to cooperate with a federal inquiry into the matter.
King has not been implicated in the growing scandal around Wade's illegal activities. However, federal records show he contributed to some of Wade's favored lawmakers, including $6000 to Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA) and $4000 to Rep. Katherine Harris (R-FL).
Before joining MZM in December 2001, King served under Hayden as the NSA's associate deputy director for operations, and as head of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency.
King worked at NSA Headquarters in Ft. Meade, Maryland, in 2004 and 2005, both sources told me. "King was out there working on same floor as Hayden," one former employee with firsthand knowledge of the arrangement said. "He was doing special projects for Hayden as an MZM employee." Neither former employee knew details of King's work for Hayden; one said he thought he was doing "special projects" for the director, while the other speculated it was "high-ranking advisory work."
The NSA did not immediately respond to my request for comment. Hayden left the NSA in April 2005 to take the post of Deputy Director of National Intelligence. The DNI office referred my call on the matter to the NSA.
As an MZM employee, King was involved in a number of controversial projects. <b>In 2002, he was a key adviser to the team creating CIFA, the Pentagon's domestic surveillance operation. In 2004, he was one of three MZM staffers who worked on the White House Robb-Silberman Commission, which recommended expanding CIFA's powers.........</b>
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