Judge Denies European Summer Vacation for Disgraced CIA Official

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Source: ABC News

Kyle Foggo's Attorneys Said He Is Not A Flight Risk; Prosecutors Disagreed
By JUSTIN ROOD
June 10, 2008

A former top CIA official facing over two dozen felony charges won't get to take the five-week Austrian vacation he had requested, a federal judge has ruled.


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Onetime CIA executive director Kyle "Dusty" Foggo surrendered his passport as a condition of his freedom while he awaits a November trial for 28 counts including fraud, conspiracy, money laundering and false statements.

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Federal prosecutors opposed the trip, arguing he would be sorely tempted to stay abroad and avoid prosecution. Moreover, they noted, the source of funding for the trip was a mystery: Foggo had earlier pushed to move his trial to Virginia from San Diego, because he said the costs of staying in California for the three weeks the trial is expected to last would have been a financial hardship.

"A five-week European vacation for Foggo and his entire family – especially given current exchange rates. . . seems inconsistent with Foggo's prior argument. . . that he was too impoverished" to afford being tried in San Diego, the prosecutors wrote.

Read more: http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5037849&page=1

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As noted in the article, we've been down this path before, when Thomas Kontogiannis went on a trip to the Mediterranean AFTER he's been given a guilty verdict with his secret plea deal, and supposedly under the supervision by government officials that were unnamed.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/09/bribers-greek-v.html

The soap operas continue with all of these Cunningham scandal cases!

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1. On an unrelated note:

I see your S. Edmonds picture and need to ask: What is the best read on this subject?

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3. If you're just starting to delve into her situation...

Philip Giraldi wrote a pretty good piece that summarizes everything up to the point of her recent London Times article...

http://www.amconmag.com/2008/2008_01_28/article1.html

If you want to study more in depth and have ways of finding other articles, go to her own site at:

http://www.justacitizen.com/

or go to Luke Ryland's blogs at:

http://letsibeledmondsspeak.blogspot.com/

It would seem that Luke Ryland just did an audio interview today with Scott Horton. Haven't checked that out, but I think that would be worthy of looking into. I'm sure they are going to comment on the relevancy of Scott McClellan's upcoming testimony to congress on Valerie Plame case and how that might provide reasons to have her testify soon as well.

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2. I'll bet they send him to his room without supper too

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4. Loved the "too impoverished" snark! "Inconsistent"!

Not real impressed with Mr. Foggo, are they?

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5. Yeah, Brent Wilkes tried to play that game too to get a public defender...

He had Mark Geragos working for him for Pete's sake! And of course Judge Larry Burns (who I heard Geragos personally "curse" at another public gathering a few weeks ago) I think is sensitive to just how much Wilkes has and didn't allow him to play games to get off on bail either (even though he also was already convicted and just waiting for an appeal).

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6. Here's an article from TPM on this...

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/06/indicted_cia_spook_kyle_dusty.php