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...That's not what most people think, obviously. To judge by the antics of Representatives Cynthia McKinney, Patrick Kennedy, Katherine Harris and Duke Cunningham, being a member of Congress is a little like being James Bond, without the neat gadgets but also fewer bullets. Still: Car crashes! Fistfights! Luxury yachts, $2,800 dinners and wild card games! The prostitutes reportedly procured for Cunningham don't quite fit into the Bondian mold until you consider that at least Cunningham didn't pay for them himself...
...boss Director Porter Goss leaves later this month, cleared defense contractor Brent Wilkes in for at least one visit to CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., within the last 12 months, sources tell TIME.The visit occurred before Wilkes was cited - though not charged - in ex-congressman Randy ?Duke? Cunningham?s November guilty plea as an unindicted co-conspirator who provided over $600,000 of the $2.4 million in bribes that Cunningham admitted accepting from defense contractors. (Though Wilkes is not named in the Cunningham indictment, his attorneys, who insist Wilkes has done nothing wrong, have confirmed he is "co-conspirator...
...inspector general and the Justice Department are closely scrutinizing the relationship between Wilkes and outgoing executive director Kyle ?Dusty? Foggo, a childhood friend, as the wider Cunningham investigation continues. Cunningham was sentenced to more than eight years in prison in March. A California newspaper, the North County Times, reported this week that a Defense Department investigator has complained that Cunningham, who is serving a more than eight-year sentence, is not fully cooperating in the investigation. A Cunningham attorney declined comment...
...part of its mushrooming Cunningham probe, the Justice Department has been looking into whether Foggo received improper gifts 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...
...this guy was his friend and he obviously knew he was in the defense contracting business," Hundley says of the relationship between Wilkes and Foggo. But Foggo "is just shocked, really, that he would - if he did - have given that amount of money to Cunningham." Hundley added that Foggo may have attended widely reported poker parties that Wilkes threw in a hospitality suite in Washington, "but there was no hanky-panky" at these events, he said...