Posted on 04/21/2006 12:01:43 PM PDT by Howlin
Edited on 04/21/2006 12:47:23 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Just breaking on Fox...
No details, but the agent was caught dead to rights leaking....
Update: CIA Officer Fired for Leaking Classified Info to Media
WASHINGTON — A CIA officer has been relieved of his duty after being caught leaking classified information to the media.
CIA officials will not reveal the officer's name, assignment, or the information that was leaked. The firing is a highly unusual move, although there has been an ongoing investigation into leaks in the CIA.
One official called this a "damaging leak" that deals with operational information and said the fired officer "knowingly and willfully" leaked the information to the media and "was caught."
They hate Bush....its that simple.
The Ohio Democratic Party has taken money from a traitor.
That won't go over well with the citizens of this great state.
All she had was a coffee cup she got at Panama City Beach, FL and a Gold C Coupon book she had to buy from the daughter of her secretary at the beginning of the school year. She probably carried those out herself.
"I want to know the REASON for not arresting her on the spot .. and allowing her to be marched out .. free to leave .. any clues???"
It makes one wonder is she was "Frog marched" out of there?
CIA LEAKER FIRED
By Michelle Malkin · April 21, 2006 03:50 PM
Fox News has the story.
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Update: NBC identifies the leaker as Mary McCarthy...
In a rare occurrence, the CIA fired an officer who acknowledged giving classified information to a reporter, NBC News learned Friday.
The officer flunked a polygraph exam before being fired on Thursday and is now under investigation by the Justice Department, NBC has learned.
Intelligence sources tell NBC News the accused officer, Mary McCarthy, worked in the CIA's inspector general's office and had worked for the National Security Council under the Clinton and and George W. Bush administrations.
The leak pertained to stories on the CIA’s rumored secret prisons in Eastern Europe, sources told NBC. The information was allegedly provided to Dana Priest of the Washington Post, who wrote about CIA prisons in November and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize on Monday for her reporting.
Sources said the CIA believes McCarthy had more than a dozen unauthorized contacts with Priest. Information about subjects other than the prisons may have been leaked as well.
The sources spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the firing.
I am TIVO-ing Greta.
Please tell me if she covers anything besides Duke and Aruba.
Wasn't Rand Beers a former roommate of either John Kerry or his brother, Cameron???
If my memory is correct, he was likely a mole himself while serving in the Reagan and Bush 41 adiministrations.
I'm terrible at research, better at wispy memories and tenuous connections. :-)
You all have found a goldmine of info here.
BTW, if Mary is from northern Ohio, Michigan State is hardly a far away university for undergrad work. And McCarthy is a common name in that area. I went to high school with a few of them...
Pinz
Her son?
Pinz
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1619296/posts
The Wayback Machine: BERGER APPOINTS MCCARTHY SPECIAL ASSISTANT FOR INTELLIGENCE
USIS ^ | 6/17/98 | Press Release
Posted on 04/21/2006 10:02:23 PM EDT by ricks_place
Washington -- National Security Advisor Samuel R. Berger announced June 16 the appointment of Mary O'Neil McCarthy as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Intelligence Programs.
(Excerpt) Read more at fas.org ...
I wonder what caught her fancy at the Ohio DNC that resulted in her cutting a 5K check?
Is that right? Mary McCarthy and Joe Wilson served on the National Security Council at the same time...and both with Africa portfolios?!
I don't recall any mention of Beers in the role of roommate, but heck, I didn't pay close attention to Kerry's campaign workers.
Pass the popcorn
Cause it sounds like they've got a bunch of stuff on Mary
Washington Post: CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons - Dana Priest - Wednesday, November 2, 2005
The above story is the genesis of the left-winged myth of alleged "secret prisons", namely in Eastern Europe, and Afghanistan.
Pass the tums,
If you work at the Washington Post.
GOOD you linked that here!
Thanks.
Isn't it against the law for Priest to get classified stuff?
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