* Ho, ho, ho:"Brent Wilkes, that's Duke Cunningham's Mr. Coconspirator #1 to you, will not plead guilty, according to today's WSJ expose. That must be very good news to Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA), Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), his buddy at the CIA, and others whom Wilkes had bought into.
Even though prosecutors have a fair amount on Wilkes, somehow he thinks he can beat this rap." (link)
"Federal prosecutors are investigating whether two contractors implicated in the bribery of former Rep. Randall "Duke" Cunningham supplied him with prostitutes and free use of a limousine and hotel suites, pursuing evidence that could broaden their long-running inquiry.Besides scrutinizing the prostitution scheme for evidence that might implicate contractor Brent Wilkes, investigators are focusing on whether any other members of Congress, or their staffs, may also have used the same free services, though it isn't clear whether investigators have turned up anything to implicate others." (link)
what's the bet they had video cameras in the building? any gay male prostitutes? duke was apparently gay. were there any straight male prostitutes? was katherine harris a client?
"Mr. Wade told investigators that all the arrangements for these (prostitutes) had been made by Mr. Wilkes and two employees of Mr. Wilkes's company, according to people with knowledge of his debriefing." (link)from memory, the only Wilkes business in DC was Group W - and our good friend Michael Mack.
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Hmmm... Nice find. It also appears that TPM Muckeracker.com is reporting that Ken Silverstein of Harper's Blog is pointing to one of the Washington individuals that could be getting roped into this "Hookergate" probe is none other than the individual that's the topic a few paragraphs above this post... CIA director Porter Goss! Let's hope he goes down for the count too!
CIA's Goss Drawn Into Hooker Probe?
so sweet.
thnx.
Calipendence/Luke,
Wait a second...
Isn't Goss basically a prostitute disguised as a government employee? So the real 'Hookergate' is that a whore like Goss ever got appointed to such a high-level position in the CIA.
Do you suppose if we had articles on this topic with a subject line of "Newly discovered Duke Sex Crimes" (which it is!), that it might get picked up by more "mainstream" corporate media news sites? Either that, or if folks try to get through call screeners on less than progressive talk shows, they should say that they want to talk about that too, which might help them get through! :)
miguel - ho ho ho
calipendence - it looks like the genie might be out of the bottle. let's hope there's lots of cocaine benders as well. maybe marrion barry will make an appearance :-)
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