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From the NY Times:

August 11, 2006
Pentagon Officials Quit at Agency Linked to Bribes
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 ? The two top officials of Counterintelligence 
Field Activity at the Defense Department resigned this week amid
investigations into their agency?s classified contracts with a 
businessman who has pleaded guilty to bribing department officials 
and Representative Randy Cunningham.

The resignations, which were first reported Thursday in The 
Washington Post, are the latest sign that the scandal surrounding 
Mr. Cunningham, a California Republican who stepped down last fall, 
is still unfolding. The new departures come as the House 
intelligence committee is preparing its own report on corrupt 
favors performed by Mr. Cunningham as a member of the panel.

The two officials, David A. Burtt II, the director of
Counterintelligence Field Activity, and Joseph Hefferon, 
the deputy director, could not be reached for comment. A 
Pentagon spokeswoman said Thursday that their resignations 
were ?a personal decision that they both made together.?

Federal prosecutors have named the counterintelligence agency 
in court papers as a source of tens of millions of dollars in 
inflated contracts provided to Mitchell J. Wade, chief executive 
of the military contractor MZM Inc.

In February, Mr. Wade pleaded guilty to bribing Mr. Cunningham 
and unidentified Defense Department officials in exchange for 
such contracts. Mr. Cunningham pleaded guilty to accepting 
illicit payments from Mr. Wade and another contractor, later 
identified as Brent R. Wilkes. Prosecutors have not charged 
Mr. Wilkes.

Mr. Cunningham was chairman of the intelligence panel s [sic]
subcommittee for human intelligence, giving him responsibility 
for oversight of the counterintelligence agency.

In February 2004, Mr. Cunningham sent a letter to Mr. Burtt, 
thanking his staff for its execution of a project he 
had inserted in a military bill, according to documents 
filed in United States District Court in Southern California.

And he promoted Mr. Wade?s company, MZM, to Mr. Burtt as 
well. ?Additionally, I wish to endorse and support MZM Inc.?s 
[sic] work,? Mr. Cunningham wrote.



... Avarice, Corruption, Dishonesty...  GOP family values.
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