The new indictment against Kyle “Dusty” Foggo, a former No. 3 official at the spy agency and a onetime senior CIA ethics officer, alleges that he pressured CIA managers into hiring the woman after she was turned down for a position in the CIA’s general counsel office.

FOTFLMAO… I don’t remember the last time that I had to wipe away tears of laughter after reading an EW post and comments… Laughing so hard my abdomen is sore.

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OT: bmaz, Dickie Scruggs is highlighted in most recent New Yorker; I only paid attention b/c of EW’s posts and your comments about him.

Tip-of-the-tongue names like Marcy Wheeler, Jon Johansson, Monica Goodling etc. apparently make people open the mail more than clearly famous names (Al Gore, Paris Hilton, etc.) or the fully random names (Sandy J. Gomez, Bartholomew Jones, etc.)

Although according to our server logs, someone seems to think that names like “Hillryy Klinton” and “Jon McClane” were worth trying to, so who knows?

– MarkusQ

This “reform” was undertaken to bring the CIA to heel, and forge it into a political instrument of the “permanant republican majority”, just like the program underway at the Justice Dept as Alberto Gonzalez came in at almost exactly the same time.

Porter Goss’ name and role is almost never mentioned. He leaks to the press, and perhaps for that reason has a special status.

But he was the boss. He hand-picked Foggo.

Rumors of these alleged trysts were rampant at Langley and Dusty’s colleagues warned him to give up this high profile habit. But Dusty was a guy who “made Bill Clinton seem like a choirboy,” according to a source familiar with this taste in hookers and strip joints.

Having sat in no small number of (often coma-inducing) security procedure briefings, I can say that with 100% probability, somebody along the line recognized this and reported it as a security issue. (It would have made Foggo vulnerable to blackmail.) Someone (probably in Waxman’s sphere?) should be tugging on the thread to see what happened as a result of that report.

I’m at emptywheel at gmail dot com.