Foggo sentencing docs. Via ProPublica. Quite a read. Everything I reported going back to November 2005 on a CIA water contract, black contracts, air cover contracts, etc. checks out. Go read Jane Doe #2 here. And the declaration of JC, Joel Combs, Brent Wilkes' nephew. Foggo planned to run for Duke Cunningham's congressional seat. Porter Goss, in his declaration, says "members of my senior staff suggested Mr. Foggo as a possible candidate for the position of Executive Director. I did not suggest him or seek him out." (Which staff?) And the interview with one of Dusty's girlfriends he helped get a $100,000 job at the CIA, ER. (The government sentencing docs heap scorn on Foggo's plea for sentencing leniency, on Foggo's claimed grounds that his being jailed would be a hardship for his family. Foggo, family man? Not exactly).

A former US intelligence source thought that Brent "nine fingers" Bassett was the Goss staffer who recommended the hire of Foggo as ExDir.

He said that Goss lied in his testimony, that he was not aware about the problems with Foggo when he hired him for executive director. He said that a major fight had broken out between Goss staffer Patrick Murray and then associate deputy director of operations Michael Sulick about the Foggo hiring. "Murray told ADDO/Counterintelligence Mary Margaret that if Dusty's background got out to the press, they would know who to come looking for. Mary Margaret tried to warn them that Dusty Foggo had a problematic counterintelligence file. Sulick defended Mary Margaret. Goss told [deputy director of operations Steve] Kappes he had to fire Sulick." After that, Kappes and Sulick quit. "Goss bears major responsibility here," the former intelligence official says. It was finally the "White House that demanded that Goss fire Dusty and he refused." So they both got fired. More.

Foggo is due to be sentenced Thursday.

Posted by Laura at February 25, 2009 01:00 AM