Over at WarandPiece.com, Laura Rozen puts her excellent sources to work explaining how Wilkes’ poker/hooker parties may have put Wilkes’ longtime pal Kyle “Dusty” Foggo on Porter Goss’ radar, and eventually landed Foggo the #3 spot at the CIA when Goss became its head:
I’m told these poker parties may have indirectly helped put Dusty Foggo on Porter Goss’s radar through the person of Goss’s deputy Patrick Murray. . . Writes one source, “…Wilkes and Foggo played cards together in washington in the late 1990s and early 2000s. . . It is apparently through this connection that Foggo came to the attention of Goss when Goss’ first choice for executive director, Michael Kostiw, was nixed…”