FBI raids top CIA official's home

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4767275.stm

US federal agents have searched the house and office of the outgoing executive director of the CIA.
Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, formerly the third-ranking official at the spy agency, announced his retirement earlier this week.

He has been linked to a probe into possible corruption involving agency contracts, but denies any wrongdoing.

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FBI agents with warrants searched Mr Foggo's home in Virginia and his office at the CIA headquarters, FBI spokeswoman April Langwell said.

She said Mr Foggo was being investigated by five government agencies.

A CIA spokeswoman, Jennifer Millerwise Dyck, also confirmed the searches and said the agency was "cooperating fully with the Department of Justice and the FBI".

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Agents searched both Mr Foggo's home and office

Allegations also link him to a separate scandal involving former Republican congressman Randy Duke Cunningham, already jailed for taking millions of dollars in bribes.

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Ms Dyck said the investigation into Mr Foggo had "absolutely nothing, zero" to do with the 5 May resignation of Mr Goss.

He has declined to comment on his departure, telling CNN that "it's one of those mysteries". The White House described as "categorically untrue" US media reports that the president had lost confidence in Mr Goss.

But the BBC's James Westhead says the rapidly-moving investigation into Mr Foggo's activities may partly explain the sudden unexpected clear-out of the CIA's top management
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Interesting!!!

and you wanted to destroy the reputation of an agency that still contained honest people--people who feel that it is their job to prevent war, not manufacture it--and you were finding this difficult to do, because these good people were fighting back, what scheme could you come with to smear and sully them, and associate them with scandal? Answer: Find the most corrupt people you know (and in the Republican Party you don't have to look far), and appoint them to head the agency, then engineer some high profile, headline grabbing, FBI "raids" that will permanently connect that agency (the CIA) with prostitution, gambling, bribes and other lowlife Republican activities, committed by the very people that you appointed!

The dirt, the smear, the filth, thus falls on the agency--and gets dusted off of YOUR shoulders--and the agency becomes suspect in the public mind, or, rather, becomes suspect in the smeary, fuzzy, impressionistic political narrative that your shills in the corporate news monopolies are so good at creating, and PRETEND is the "public mind."

1. Appoint assholes and lowlife criminals to head the CIA.

2. Let them get "caught" by the FBI.

3. Thus, you seem to be investigating--rather than sponsoring--corruption.

4. And the CIA takes the hit to its reputation from the lowlifes you appointed, by means of the "investigatin'" yer doin, and all the 'news' articles about how corrupt those people at the CIA are.

This sort of "bounce-back" effect in news manipulation--it's almost Escher-like (a Mobius strip)--is reminiscent of the Bush junta tactic for outing CIA agent Valerie Plame and the entire CIA WMD counter-proliferation network she headed, and trying to cover their tracks in this act of treason, by "seeding" her identity all over town, calling many reporters, and engaging in many casual conversations, to create the impression that "everybody knew." Utilize a Pentagon plant at the NYT, reporter/warmonger Judith Miller, to push the rumor along. Drop it on more wary, more professional types, as something you "heard." Etc. Etc.

Similar modus operandi. And the two things--Porter Goss/Foggo scandals, and the Plame/Brewster-Jennings outings--could be related, especially in view of the likelihood that the chief engineer of these kinds of 'newstream' manipulations, Karl Rove, is about to be indicted, next week probably, for outing Plame/BJ, or for perjury and obstruction in THAT investigation.

When THAT shit hits the fan, the Bushite yappers in the press corps will thereby be able to sneer at the CIA, and bring up Porter Goss/Foggo every time the Bushites' treasonous and felonious outing of covert CIA agents comes up, creating the impression that the people at the CIA are lowlifes, and so what's all this fuss about outing them?

The yappers will just sort of 'forget' that Bush himself appointed Porter Goss/Foggo, cuz he's investigatin' them lowlifes, ain't he? And it will never arise in their fuzzy-smeary-impressionistic narrative of things that Bush knew damned well WHO he was appointing to head the CIA and what parties they were going to.

Hekate