Porter Goss's Dusty Foggo problem. If you were director of CIA, and your top two operations officers quit, do you think you might possibly inquire about why? The top two CIA ops officers Steve Kappes and Michael Sulick quit in November 2004, two months after Goss became director, over a fight related to Goss's appointing of Dusty Foggo to be CIA number 3. (Goss's staffer Patrick Murray had demanded that deputy director of operations Kappes fire his deputy Sulick because Sulick was standing up in defense of associate deputy director of counterintelligence Mary Margaret who said it would be a mistake for Goss to hire Foggo as ExDir because of a history of troubling behavior in his file. Murray had threatened Mary Margaret that if anything from Foggo's file leaked, they would blame her. Instead of firing Sulick, Kappes and Sulick both quit.) In other words, Goss found out pretty soon after he arrived at Langley that there was a problem concerning what was in Foggo's file. But he didn't do anything about it. Not then, and not until the spring of 2006 when the Feds were about to raid Foggo's office and he and Foggo were both canned. You don't have to be an intelligence specialist to figure that out.

Posted by Laura at February 26, 2009 12:22 PM