UPDATE - georgia10 picks up the story, expands it, comes to the same conclusions I did...seriously, who would have thought any member of Congress would be so stupid as to accept hookers from a lobbyist?
If this is true, we sweep both houses of Congress. By a landslide.
This morning the
WSJ broke the story that FBI investigators are looking into a new aspect to the Duke Cunningham story - the defense contractors who bribed him also threw him wild parties and arranged for prostitutes and hotel rooms.
The WSJ also said that the FBI is looking into whether these same contractors arranged for prostitutes for other members of congress.
Ken Silverstein at Harper's blog is reporting:
I've learned from a well-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.
Who's a former lawmaker on the Intelligence Committee who holds a powerful intelligence post?
On top of that, Justin Rood at TPM Muckraker reports:
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?
Oh...and apparently, there are pictures...
This might actually be better than Fitzmas...