On the Dusty Trail

Newsweek reports that CIA Executive Director Kyle "Dusty" Foggo---who GovExec's Jason Vest wrote about in December (and who Jason introduced to the world in a 2004 Boston Phoenix piece) has caught the eye of federal investigators probing the relationship between now-convicted ex-Rep Randy "Duke" Cunningham and Foggo's friend, defense contractor Brent Wilkes. Not only that, Foggo is the subject of a CIA inspector general's inquiry on account of his ties to Wilkes. All of this comes as Wilkes' fellow defense contractor Mitchell Wade has pleaded guilty not just to bribing Cunningham, but also to "corrupting" unnamed Defense Department officials, in his efforts to secure federal contracts. Stay tuned for more...