Posted on 04/24/2006 3:12:57 AM PDT by johnny7
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"It isn't just the CIA that has problems with former politicals getting knee-deep into this Administration's policy and leaking materials," says a current Bush Administration aide. "We're talking about a situation that we haven't been able to deal with in a manner in which we'd want. But this Mary McCarthy case may help us."
The aide is referring to the firing last week of a CIA employee working in the agency's Office of Inspector General. One of McCarthy's jobs was investigating allegations of torture by CIA employees or contractors at Iraqi prisons. The CIA fired McCarthy on evidence that she was one of the sources for Washington Post reporter Dana Priest's report on so-called "Black Site" prisons in Europe and elsewhere that housed captured al Qaeda, Taliban, and some senior Iraqi military and intelligence individuals. Unresolved is whether McCarthy also leaked material to the left-wing organization, Human Rights Watch, which clearly was also a key source to Priest. (Note this quote in Priest's now-Pulitzer Prize winning story: "'I remember asking: What are we going to do with these people?' said a senior CIA officer. 'I kept saying, where's the help? We've got to bring in some help. We can't be jailers -- our job is to find Osama.'" Was this McCarthy?)
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Firing is too good for this bitch who cares more about her personal gain than she does about her country. She should be locked up.
They should call it treason and hang this traitorous wench.
Your job was to do as you were bloody well told.
It's interesting that when the news broke, so many Freepers speculated that the CIA leaker (Mary McCarthy) is a "he."
I want to know if money changed hands.
If it didn't she deserves jail as much as Pollard did, but if it didn't then she deserves jail for the same reason as any traitor does.
She's pretending to reveal for "openness" reasons, but could it really be that her actual intent was to reveal to foreign governments?
Is this the new way for Russia, China, Saudi Arabia to 'protect' their spies.....have them reveal info to newspapers so they can claim this so-called "openness" doctrine? I want to know if money changed hands and from whom.
According to former Kerry campaign staffers, Beers, who served as a senior adviser to Kerry's campaign, spoke of having continued access to CIA and national security data from former colleagues still in government.
"He said he still had friends willing to help the Kerry campaign from inside," says a former staffer. "We always assumed that guys like Beers and Berger were in touch with these people. I'm not talking about having secure material leaked to us, but our national security folks always seemed to be in the know." The former staffer said he never recalled mention of any names.
Kerry doesn't seem to have inspired loyalty in his staff. I also question whether a staffer would KNOW if the information Beers and Berger had was classified.
How about we hypothetically roll the clock back 35 years to say, 1971 when there was a real and tangible nuclear threat from the Soviet Union.
What if Mary McCarthy had leaked information relating to secret safe houses and citizens of foreign nations that we had recruited as sources of information behind the Iron Curtain, and moved from safe house to safe house? Would that not be considered high treason, as dastardly as what Aldrich Ames did?
The "reasons" for McCarthy leaking that classified information are totally irrelevant. She did not have the authority to disseminate that information, she was in fact prohibited by federal law from allowing ANY unauthorized person from having access to such information, she deliberately chose to disregard and ignore the law and gave that information to at least one person, Dana Priest of the Washington Post, and it must be assumed that she may have shared that information with other as yet undetermined parties.
In 1971, it would have been considered an act of treason, and now, with America at war? If this isn't high treason, then the crime of treason no longer exists.
Mary McCarthy should be indicted, tried and convicted of high treason against the United States, Dana Priest and her corporate masters at the Washington Post should likewise be charged, as they knowingly received and published highly classified information, knowing that such publication could and did endanger our national security, the war effort, and the safety of United States Armed Forces.
The answer?
Nice tall trees, and short pieces of rope.
They are ALL traitors and if they cannot be held to account for their crimes against our Nation, then we as a Nation might as well run up the white flag of surrender to our enemies both foreign AND domestic, because America will have lost this war at home and abroad.
While everyone is watching Josh Bolton's staff changes, I wonder if he is resposible for a "new tone" in regards to finally fighting back. Maybe, this is a first shot.
It wasn't personal gain.
The Clintons organized networks of politicized moles -- they tried to politicize as many of the Civil Service as possible with their careerist-inveigling "too pale, too male, too pale" job-redistribution campaign, and to organize women and minorities in cell-like subgroups that would ostensibly foster "change" in the Civil Service but were actually doing Hillary's "identity politics".
McCarthy, like Richard Clarke and the Wilsons (Wilson/Plame), was doing Clintonista politics and undercutting Bush, to make straight the way of Hillary in '08.
That's what this is all about. It's about Clinton moles and the political equivalent of suicide bombers.
Damn, that was well written!!!!!!!!!!!
The fact of the matter is McCarthy committed a treasonist act, and for Kerry and others to come out and act like this could be some sort of "whistle blowing" exercise is completely bogus. It really shows you the kind of character you're dealing with to excuse such blatant treason...
Why some of the people are not in jail is a travesty to justice...Dan Rather, Mary Mapes, Sandy "Sox" Burger, The Clintons,...Mary McCarthy.
Yup.
“Mary McCarthy is the fourth Clinton NSC member to assault the Bush White House. Ms. McCarthy, who was dismissed for leaking national security secrets to the press, is not the first Clintonite to undermine and assault the Bush White House. The biggest raging bulls attacking the White House have been former Clinton National Security characters.
Mary McCarthy was one. So was Joe Wilson – and his wife Val Plame, who presumably cooked up the phony Niger uranium documents scam, which now has Scooter Libby facing jailtime. Then we had Richard Clarke, who ran interference for the Clintonistas during the 9/11 Commission hearings, so that Clinton’s criminal neglect of Osama Bin Laden was somehow “overlooked.” The media never cites those Clinton connections. Joe Wilson is always “Ambassador,” but never “Clinton appointee.” Then we have Sandy Burglar himself, of course. And Mary makes four.
These folks are not just loyal old Clintonistas. They are also auditioning for the second eight years of Clinton II.
A politicized national security apparatus is not the only Clinton legacy. Slick Willie himself routinely attacks the White House before foreign audiences, including those that are filled with radical Islamists, as in Dubai. So do Al Gore and Madeleine Albright.”
ping for later
Former members of our military publically attacking the civilian administration that leads the military...
Former and *existing* members of our intelligence agencies attacking the administration and leaking confidential information...
Illegal aliens walking/driving across our borders with absolutely no fear of reprisal... cops in the border states saying they can't arrest illegals, but can only cite and release....
Democrats openly challenging the basis for launching a war in the middle-east DURING the war...
What we have here is a total disregard for the law and it starts at the highest levels. Clinton got the ball rolling and it is going down hill.
This laissez-faire regard for the law is going to lead to our destruction. Just watch! We are already incapable of defending ourselves, it will only lead to someone bringing a nuke in. Why send them through the air when you can drive one in? And our economy will not sustain a nuclear attack on NY or Chicago or LA.
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Kerry's statements really make me wonder if he ever thinks before shooting his mouth off. Using his line of reasoning would let Scooter Libby off the hook. Even if Valerie Plame was a NOC he would have been telling the truth making him only a whistle blower.
What a maroon!
Not a good year for your analogy, sorry.
That was the year the Pentagon Papers were all the rage, and Neil Sheehan was being lionized. Daniel Ellsberg never spent a day in jail. I remember coming on watch at my shore station in the Navy and seeing my watchstanders sitting around, before going on duty, reading the Pentagon Papers in the Miami newspaper. We were reading stuff there that most of us weren't cleared for on the job.
Dana Priest didn't get a Pulitzer for her great writing. She got it for damaging the foreign policy of a hated Republican administration. Nobody got Pulitzers for dishing the goods about Monica's dress; and whereas the "Plumbers" all went to prison, Sidney Blumenthal, who was actively retailing the "mad Monica" theory until the blue dress surfaced and proved different, is still running around telling lies for his favorite liars.
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