Federal investigators in San Diego have made it clear that while just-resigned Rep. Randy Duke’ Cunningham pled guilty last week to taking bribes from defense contractors, their public corruption probe will not stop at Cunningham. Numerous current and retired CIA officials say they will not be surprised if the investigation touches the CIA in general, and its third-ranking official in particular.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb Though everyone has been talking about what Cunningham did for contractors from his position on [the House] Defense Appropriations [subcommittee], you also have to remember that he had a seat on [the Permanent Select Committee on] Intelligence too, which is also a good position to help contractors from, particularly if they want to do business with the CIA, says a veteran CIA officer. But the real question I think is, if those contractors were doing business with the CIA, did they need Cunningham? And even if they didn’t, the question is, even if he didn’t do anything, did one the highest-ranking agency officials have any idea what his friends were up to?<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tLes premi\u00e8res indications dont on dispose montrent qu’il s’agit d’une tr\u00e8s vaste affaire de corruption, o\u00f9 la CIA se trouverait impliqu\u00e9e avec des personnalit\u00e9s du Congr\u00e8s et des milieux d’affaires, ainsi que plusieurs soci\u00e9t\u00e9s contractantes d’armement. Il pourrait alors s’agir du premier scandale de corruption pure de cette dimension touchant l’agence de renseignement am\u00e9ricaine, qui se trouverait ainsi elle aussi touch\u00e9e par la d\u00e9cadence acc\u00e9l\u00e9r\u00e9e observ\u00e9e depuis la fin de la Guerre froide dans le monde politique am\u00e9ricaniste. Pour l’Agence, ce serait le dernier \u00e9chelon d’un processus de d\u00e9t\u00e9rioration de la qualit\u00e9 de son travail, depuis les ann\u00e9es 1960 et ses implications dans des affaires partisanes int\u00e9rieures.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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\tPubli\u00e9 le 6 d\u00e9cembre 2005 \u00e0 13H29<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Diverses indications conduisent \u00e0 observer que l’affaire ayant men\u00e9 \u00e0 l’inculpation et \u00e0 la d\u00e9mission du d\u00e9put\u00e9 r\u00e9publicain Randy S. Cunningham pour corruption n’en restera pas l\u00e0. Il s’agirait d’un prolongement d’une affaire beaucoup plus vaste qui impliquerait la CIA elle-m\u00eame, et peut-\u00eatre le n\u00b03 de la CIA. Le site Government executive.com pr\u00e9cise le 4… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1571],"class_list":["post-67078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-cunningham"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}