Well, who knew. We thought that spies spent all their time smuggling secret messages in their butts and wearing goofy disguises, but it appears they also devote many hours of their workday to supporting their mistresses and date-raping Algerians. MORE »

“Thirteen U.S. lawmakers, including two representing San Diego-area districts, are resisting subpoenas served by an attorney for Poway defense contractor Brent Wilkes, who is hoping their testimony will help in his upcoming trial on charges of bribing former Rep. Randy ‘Duke’ Cunningham.” [San Diego Union Tribune]

So, we sort of put up this indictment thingie last night without letting you in on the full-on corrupt-politicians pay to do it with sexy ladies angle To save you the trouble of wading through the 42-page PDF file, here are the sexy parts, which are particularly sexy if you like your paid, anonymous sex to be so anonymous that the ladies you have sex with don’t have names but just letters. The gory details, after the jump.

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Hooray for the slow march of justice for lesser Bush Administration figures! Former No. 3 CIA boss Kyle “Slimeball” Foggo and impossibly corrupt Duke Cunningham buddy/contractor Brent Wilkes have been officially indicted for many federal crimes including conspiracy, wire fraud, and money laundering. MORE »

Dusty Foggo and Brent Wilkes might be indicted today. Maybe. The internet said it, so it’s pretty much 50/50. MORE »

Oh dear, things are looking especially embarrassing for former CIA honcho Dusty Foggo, because Vanity Fair’s big Duke Cunningham article hits the stands in New York and Los Angeles today , and a preliminary scan for naughty bits reveals the following delicious paragraph:

[Defense contracter Brent] Wilkes also introduced [contractor Tom] Casey to Dusty Foggo, who often passed through Washington. Around 1994, during a visit to a Washington strip club, Casey says, Foggo wore a gun in a shoulder holster and flashed his identification at the club doorman. He was promptly seated by the stage. “Foggo sits there the whole night telling me how he likes to fuck girls in the ass,” Casey recalls. “He sees a girl there, he jabs you and says, ‘She’s ready to go–let’s double-team her.’ The weirdest combination of sex and domination! And Wilkes, he’s just laughing the whole time.” (Through an attorney, Foggo says that this incident never happened. According to his lawyer, Wilkes denies visiting strip clubs in adulthood.)

Other than that, the Vanity Fair piece is long on details, sprinkled liberally with spokesperson denials, yet sadly lacking in more salacious details. It’s asserted once again that Duke Cunningham enjoyed the company of paid escorts, for instance, but those escorts are again maddeningly non-gender-specific. Heck, we’ll take what we can get, though. MORE »

Three notable pieces were published this weekend on the painfully slow-moving hookers ‘n’ Congressmen ‘n’ spooks scandal.

• Newsweek’s Brent Wilkes profile

• Ken Silverstein’s “Nine Fingers” Basset story
• The San Diego Union-Tribune’s poker party report

While they are all rich with color (a Nine Fingers “prank letter” filled with sexually explicit talk was intercepted by the KGB, who then tried to blackmail him), they are also all short on hookers (with Newsweek not mentioning them at all). Closer looks, after the jump.

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* A little real estate porn of the house where Dusty Foggo and Brent Wilkes lived like porn stars. [Raw Story] MORE »

WatergateGate continues to be complicated. MORE »

Today’s Time article on Porter Goss, Duke Cunningham, Brent Wilkes, Dusty Foggo, and Brant Basset, while very informative, fails to call Basset “Nine Fingers” even once, which is, of course, shoddy journalism. Also, the closest it comes to mentioning hookers is quoting Foggo’s attorney as saying that there was “no hanky panky” at the Watergate poker parties. MORE »

After a terribly exciting coupla days, there was almost nothing today. Seriously, pick up the ball, entire rest of the press. Thank god for Ken Silverstein, our new favorite reporter, who’s just delivered his latest installment — Brant “Nine Fingers” Basset (the noted Dick Tracy villain) is moving into a central role, which we’re happy to hear. We thought he had a lot of potential when we first heard the name, and we’re happy to see him recognize it. MORE »