Peter King: I'll Probe CIA 'Orgies'

NewsMax.com ^ | June 2, 2006 | Carl Limbacher

[Carl/NewsMax]

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King is lashing out at his fellow Republicans in Washington after Homeland Security Czar Michael Chertoff cut anti-terrorism funding for New York City, warning Thursday morning that unless the cuts are restored, he'll launch an investigation into what he called "orgies" involving CIA agents at the Watergate hotel.

"[The cut] to me raises very serious questions about the judgment and the sincerity of the Department [of Homeland Security] and everything they do," King told WABC Radio's John Gambling. "If they can't get something like this right, how can we trust them to get anything right?"

King then threatened: "So I am going to be investigating them from top to bottom and one clear example is this whole scandal with [ex-]Congressman Duke Cunningham, which has now unfolded to include orgies at the Watergate hotel."

Last month, a top advisor to former CIA Director Porter Goss was forced to resign after admitting that he attended poker parties at the Watergate arranged by a lobbyist-friend of Cunningham's, where published reports claimed that prostitutes were present.

But there have been no allegations that anyone engaged in "orgies."

Still, an angry King vowed to blow the lid off the scandal, saying it involves "prostitutes and booze and gambling and CIA agents."

"People were driven to the Watergate hotel for these orgies in limousines," King claimed. "The limousine company is owned by a convicted criminal that lost their previous contracts with school districts because they were incompetent. And the Department of Homeland Security gave them a $21 million contract to drive their top officials around Washington."

The New York Republican continued to fume: "They could find $21 million to give to a company owned by a criminal which drives around pimps and prostitutes, and they cut $80 million for the city of New York.

"That says to me a lot about their judgment," he added.

Responding to King's complaint, Homeland Security spokeswoman Tracy Henke told Gambling that New York City had received $568 million in federal security funding since 2003 - on top of the $20 billion in reconstruction aid earmarked to help rebuild lower Manhattan in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks.

[alnick]

What King is WRONG about is threatening to investigate UNLESS DHS gives him money!

[Calpernia]

Well, from the searches I'm doing in google, it doesn't seem to be much of a secret. But it seems these alleged orgies also involve defense contracts and campaign contributions.

[synbad600]

And other congressmen have a right to do their job for their regions. They can't all act like this.

NYC is the biggest target b/c that's where the most harm can be done to the most people at one time. It does not lessen the security that should be afforded to others in large, but not quite as populous, cities.

[GOPJ]

Okay great. Put me on the list for a $1,000 a night call girl. You pay the tab but leave me $200 for her tip. Thanks. The government spending for hookers for foreign officials is one thing.

Using public money to get hookers for themselves is entirely another.

Do we also pay for the hooker's abortion?

Insightful question.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Homeland Security spokeswoman Tracy Henke told Gambling that New York City had received $568 million in federal security funding since 2003

For all I know, this is too much - but New York City has a proven history as a terrorist target, as does Washington, which also got it's funding cut. And why do Jacksonville and Omaha need increases in federal security funding? I doubt most members of Al-Qaeda are even aware that either city exists.

It's not surprising, but more than a little depressing, that Homeland Security is just the latest in a long list of pork-dispensing bureaucracies.

[Calpernia]

Jon Corzine, is that you?

[Cyber Liberty]

That's a pretty serious accusation there, Mr. King. If it's true, what are you doing using it as some sort of lever against the Administration? Roll the investigation, regardless of whether or not you can get someone to dance for you.

[abner]

So let me get this straight. If they give him the money he won't investigate this corruption?

That's what I took from the article... If they need to investigate something, it should be because it needs to be investigated. Not because a Rep is blackmailing them outright for money.

[FreedomNeocon]

ROTFL... King is highly suspect, almost like a sideshow.

I loved the way he savaged Chrissy Matthews, the first time I noticied him.

Since then he has gone off the handle on the Dubai Port deal, and this. Like WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY off the handle.

Sideshow...

[discostu]

You would figure by this point in American history everyone around DC would know that if you're going to do something even vaguely questionable the one place you DON'T go is the Watergate, it's just begging to get caught and have things blown up into a huge scandal.

[robowombat]

And the Department of Homeland Security gave them a $21 million contract to drive their top officials around Washington."

One very dislikable aspect of post 9-11 in DC is the proliferation of 'executive security details' for a host of mid level bureaucrats. These people (such as our former viceroy in Iraq, Mr. Bremer) are chauffeured about in armored Lincoln Town Cars (Boston Coach model) with convoys of black SUVs with tinted windows. They sail along at high speed shouldering other vehicles aside and blast through red lights with security horn blaring.It is like a combination of a banana republic and a Mafia convention. In the past figures such as the Secretary of State made do with one limo and could be seen traveling to his office like any other upper level executive. Now sub secretaries and their assistants speed about DC in their security convoys looking like a modern version of Stalins nomenclatura hurrying from dacha to the Kremlin.

[GOPJ]

"Yeah, whatever happened to honoring others' private lives?"

I don't care about their "private lives". I care about

paying for thier hookers.

[When do we get liberated?]

"poker parties with beaurocrats, politicians and prostitutes"

This is one more reason why you should not let your daughter become a prostitute. She may fall in with a bad crowd

[SAJ]

Oh, come on. Surely you don't expect Regresscritters to be able to distinguish between a capitalisation budget and current expenditures, do you? Just fork over the dough, Chertoff.

< /heavy sarcasm, just in case someone takes the above seriously >

[Buckeye McFrog]

guess that explains why none of them had time to watch AQ

[romanesq]

No we don't know for certain NYC is the number one target.
It's just these big mouth terrorists keep saying and doing it.

Herald Square bomber wannabe just convicted this week.
Oh yeah, Herald Square isn't a target.

[Biblebelter]

mid level bureaucrats

These boys and girls have little to fear from terrorists, the least significant statue in Washington would have more target value than all of them put together. If taxpayers like myself were represented in Washington, they would have a lot to fear as they would be an endangered species.

[romanesq]

Nope, and I hate Jon Corzine.

[mountainlyons]

The large cities bully and blackmail the governments and take large sums of money they do not deserve and leave the little guys in the country to do without! Try to get your mail delivered in the country! Try to get a road fixed let alone paved.

[Calpernia]

We all do.

I was sarcastically referring to your comment in http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1642304/posts?page=76#76

Your comment in 76 was a 'rumor' during gov elections.