Yet another top CIA official bites the political dust:
CIA Director Porter Goss’ No. 3 man at the agency, facing investigation as part of a congressional bribe probe, quit Monday, an official said.
Kyle “Dusty” Foggo, the CIA’s executive director, announced his resignation in an e-mail message to agency staff, a U.S. official told United Press International on condition of anonymity.
His departure follows Goss’ hasty resignation Friday, which some reports have linked to the broadening bribe probe centered on disgraced former California GOP Congressman Randall “Duke” Cunningham.
The White House denied that Friday. “It is simply not true that (Goss’) resignation is in anyway connected with the Cunningham case,” White House spokeswoman Erin Healy told UPI.
Let’s see: given the White House’s track record, if they say that then it must mean….(you fill in the blanks: we report — you decide..)…
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.