Top Counterintel Officials Resign Amid Corruption Investigation...

The New York Times DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK August 10, 2006 at 10:13 PM
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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.

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