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...TIME.com reported Wednesday that Brant Bassett, an old CIA hand and Goss aide who helped recommend Foggo for his post as the CIA?s top administrator, had previously served as a paid consultant to Wilkes - though he was not working for Goss or the Agency at the time. Bassett was paid $5,000 in May 2000 as a consultant to Wilkes? ADCS Corp., according to disclosure forms Bassett filed when he was a House intelligence committee aide. While Goss, a former CIA case officer, chaired the intelligence committee, Bassett was a committee aide from mid-2000 until 2004, when...
...Earlier this week, when TIME reported the Bassett consulting assignment, Hundley said that Foggo denies wrongdoing and is "really more of a victim here." Hundley added that he has not had any inquiries from either the Justice Department or the CIA inspector general, who is investigating whether Wilkes' business received any special treatment from Foggo in exchange for improper gifts such as lavish travel. Wilkes' business held at least one contract with the CIA as well as technology contracts with the Pentagon, according to U.S. officials and other sources. Wilkes? attorneys have said he has done nothing wrong...
...such as lavish travel from Wilkes, according to a source familiar with the case. Wilkes' business held at least one contract with the CIA as well as technology contracts with the Pentagon, according to U.S. officials and other sources. An investigator for the House intelligence committee is also scrutinizing Bassett's link to Wilkes, according to government disclosures obtained by TIME...
...When Goss became CIA director in late 2004, he brought Bassett back for a second stint at the agency as a consultant in the directorate of operations, according to a person who spoke on behalf of Bassett. Bassett knew Foggo from the days when both served in the CIA's directorate of operations, according to one official...
...Bassett accepted from Wilkes was for helping him with a business trip to a part of Europe where Bassett knew "the lay of the land from before" - presumably a reference to Bassett's earlier work for the CIA, said the person speaking for Bassett. Bassett "was not an employee of [ADCS]. It was a one-off consulting deal" this person said on Bassett's behalf. Wilkes' Washington attorney, Nancy Luque, said Wilkes has done nothing wrong and that Bassett was hired as a consultant "for his knowledge of the area they were working in and facility with the languages spoken...