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themp
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Username: Themp
Post Number: 2832
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 10:07 am: | 
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This one has it all. Maybe it has legs.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20060428-9999-1n28duke.html |
themp
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Username: Themp
Post Number: 2834
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 10:43 am: |
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SCARBOROUGH: Dean Calbreath, he’s from the San Diego Union Tribune. The Tribune was just awarded a Pulitzer Prize for its investigation into the Cunningham Scandal. Also let me bring in Melanie Sloan from the government watchdog group Citizens For Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. Dean, let me go to you first. You have obviously and your papers been all over this Cunningham scandal from the very beginning — What are your sources telling you about this latest information that the Wall Street Journal reported on today about possible trading of prostitutes for votes?
CALBREATH: We and a number of other papers have been on this for about six months or so. We have all been looking for the break in this and the Wall Street Journal found it, which is the confirmation that the feds were actually looking at this. For the past six months there we have been hearing a lot of rumors that not only the Congressman Cunningham but as many as a half dozen other Congressmen may have been involved in this. And we’ve also been hearing about the limousine service that Brent Wilkes used to bring prostitutes to the Watergate hotel and the Grand Westin in Washington.
SCARBOROUGH: Your sources are telling you that he used these limousines to bring prostitutes to the hotel. Also, apparently, he is cooperating with investigators. Is there a possibility that this black book with information may be turned over to the FBI and other high ranking Republican congressmen could be in big trouble?
CALBREATH: Well now, Mitchell Wade is cooperating with the investigators, but the guy who supposedly has the black book, Brent Wilkes he is hanging tough. He is so far not cooperating. I think that he is going to hang tough until he is indicted. So, I think it will be a while before other names come out. Like I say, the rumor mill is alive with names. The rumor mill is alive with at least half dozen names. Congressman Cunningham in today’s story in the Wall Street Journal that is really the first solid confirmation we have gotten of an eyewitness report. |
Foj
Citizen
Username: Foger
Post Number: 1226
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 10:55 am: |
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Additionally-
CIA's Goss Drawn Into Hooker Probe?
By Justin Rood - April 27, 2006
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000494.php
Ken Silverstein reports at Harper's blog on the spreading Cunningham-Wade-Wilkes prostitute scandal. He says more lawmakers, past and present, are being investigated. Sounds like he thinks House Intel Chair-turned-CIA Director Porter Goss is one of them:
I've learned from a highly-connected source that those under intense scrutiny by the FBI are current and former lawmakers on Defense and Intelligence comittees -- including one person who now holds a powerful intelligence post.
Yowzah.
Actually, make that a double-yowzah: Remember that Goss is the one who plucked one of Wilkes' old San Diego friends, the unusual and colorful Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, out of CIA middle-management obscurity to be his #3 at the agency. At the time of Foggo's appointment, no one could figure out where he came from, or how Goss knew him.
But if Goss was at the "parties," I wonder, was Foggo there too? Did they see each other? Is this where Goss had an opportunity to gauge Foggo's abilities, and determine he was qualified for the CIA executive director post?
~snip~
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com / and http://www.harpers.org/index.html
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themp
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Username: Themp
Post Number: 2839
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 4:17 pm: |
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Foggo was at the parties, and am I reading this wrong, or did the limo company get a big contract?
Two of Wilkes' former business associates say they were present on several occasions when Shirlington Limousine & Transportation Service of northern Virginia brought prostitutes to the suite. They say they did not see lawmakers in the suites on those occasions, though both had heard rumors of congressmen bringing women to the rooms.
Shirlington's attorney, Bobby S. Stafford, confirmed in a letter that from the company's founding in 1990 through the early 2000s, Shirlington President Christopher Baker “provided limousine services for Mr. Wilkes for whatever entertainment he had in the Watergate.”
Stafford's letter stated that Baker was “never in attendance in any party where any women were being used for prostitution purposes.”
Last year, Shirlington won a $21 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security.
WOW!!! Even party-loyal republicans might take some interest in this (conceivably). |
Foj
Citizen
Username: Foger
Post Number: 1234
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, April 29, 2006 - 2:27 am: |
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We gotta stop meeting like this, it might seem like we have set this thread up. Unless folks just have similar interests. Like peace and justice.
This crap just don't stop. Every week one more
"R" seems to go down, or we read about one more "R" doing something really stupid. |
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