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."
She better watch out. Wouldn't want to get the reputation for being the Jack Bauer of the MSM. (Everybody around Jack gets shot, everybody around Dana goes to prison.)
That is what is so fantastic about this Website, the more we post the more freepers add things up and figure out more details, and more things are uncovered. One little clue will add to more and more. Freepers certainly feed on one another and the conclusion to all the posts is uncovering these stories better than the old media. The new media is on the job.
"When the sarcasm is so obvious and provided by an arch-neo-evil-racist-homophobe-kid hatin'-greedy conservative such as myself, is the tag absolutely necessary?"
Good question, one I've never really seen asked all the while that we've known what they were doing. I've checked the answers you've gotten, and I'm not satisfied ; )
I think the answer lies somewhere in
WHY they wanted us out of 'Nam and WHY they want us out of Iraq.
...they value the military as their whore, but talk as though the military is their wife to get us out.
Per Rocky ... there's always this little memory:
Although Goss sailed through the confirmation vote, he could have a brief tenure if John Kerry is elected. Kerry would of course be entitled to choose a new DCI or NID. Kerry has so far avoided commenting on the Goss nomination.
John Edwards, the Democrats' nominee for Vice President, did not attend the hearings or votes, even though he's a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that vetted Goss. Of the sixteen members of the committee, only four asked difficult and probing questions: Carl Levin (D-MI), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), and Richard Durbin (D-IL). They were outvoted by twelve to four.
Although unsuccessful in blocking the nomination, these four Senators did succeed in getting many important issues "on the record" -- although somewhat less successful in getting Goss to answer questions.
(snip)
It started when he was asked by Senator Rockefeller about his voting record in Congress. Goss replied "the record is the record." As the hearings continued, this phrase would be repeated whenever Goss was asked about controversial positions he's taken, or statements he'd made.
Senator Rockefeller was concerned with statements Goss had made to the press that John Kerry, and the Democrats in general, had voted for cutbacks in intelligence funding.
Rockefeller had a large graph comparing Republican versus Democrat votes for intelligence spending bills. Goss refused to comment on the chart or on any of Rockefeller's questions about his voting record.
In his concluding remarks, Rockefeller accused Goss of having no management experience, and said that no one who'd been in politics as long as he had should do the job. According to Rockefeller, CIA Directors were rarely politicians, with the exceptions of George Bush Sr. and William Casey (who'd worked for the Republican National Committee).
Goss was also quizzed on a bill he'd proposed on June 16th of this year, which would have given the CIA the authority to conduct operations within the United States, something the Agency has always been forbidden from doing. Under intense pressure from Senator Wyden, Goss declared that "The CIA should have no arrest powers in the United States of America."
Defending his bill, he claimed it was the 9/11 Commission which blurred the line between domestic and foreign intelligence collection, and that he did not actually support the idea, but only proposed it to stimulate debate on the topic.
Rockefeller later asked if he correctly understood the bill to give the President the power to direct covert CIA operations within the US by issuing secret findings. Goss acknowledged this to be correct, but seemed more concerned over setting standards to avoid potential liability for violating anyone's civil rights. He gave the impression that any violation of civil rights might be acceptable, as long as the end -- eliminating the threat -- justified it.
I LOVE PORTER GOSS!!!
Now if I can just get back 'on topic.' lol
Pinz
three, after the 1,107th blast, that will durn sure learn you to use that there sarcasm tag!
BTW, been there, suffered that. Took 3 days to clear up the FReepmail ;o)
Compromised clerks, jerks and assorted high-level cowards, carried Sandy B.
That is the page the WaPa article is running on in the morning.
"How are we gonna find the "leakers" and make them confess?"
Good thing we got the 'Roswell is a Hoax' thing to work. Now our Alien mind control crew can work on the Enemies of Dick Cheney.
I'm also particularly pleased that Karl Rove is free to spend more time on the evil weather control machine. California's levees need another round.
Tin Foil Hat off.
Sorry I was browsing at the DUmpster and must have zoned a little!
'I hope it's someone who is a VERY close buddy to...."The Clintons".'
I wonder if they could cobble together a Rico indictment and get the whole bunch?
He should be prosecuted.
Oh, there are more than a !
Because they do not do the job that Journalists have always done, especially the investigative journalists They spend useless months day after day on $hit like Abu Grahib,and spend very little effort on any other story especially if it is negative about a Democrat. They take a story about any Republican and run with it to death,but are mostly asleep at the switch on anything else. They cannot figure out why we think they suck and don't buy their Newspapers. They spent precious little time on investigating the Democrat West Virgina House Ethics Committee Congressman and now he has stepped down while the case is ongoing. With the exception of the NY Times (what happened with them was someone drunk over there?)and Wall street Journal,there were no real stories on this by the Major News outlets. Were they waiting to see if he would be dragged away in handcuffs before they acknowledged that there were charges, and why in the hell did a Conservative outfit have to do their work for them and point out how he got rich over night on the ethics committee?
So the left is mining uranium and gold?
Thanks.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/01/AR2005110101644_3.html
This is Dana's Nov. 1, 2005 article. Most of her sentences end, "...according to current and former U.S. intelligence officials and foreign sources." I would imagine that Ms. McCarthy has been invited tp supply as many proper nouns as she would like. ;-)
But then there are these 2 paragraphs...
"The idea of holding terrorists outside the U.S. legal system was not under consideration before Sept. 11, 2001, not even for Osama bin Laden, according to former government officials. The plan was to bring bin Laden and his top associates into the U.S. justice system for trial or to send them to foreign countries where they would be tried.
"The issue of detaining and interrogating people was never, ever discussed," said a former senior intelligence officer who worked in the CIA's Counterterrorist Center, or CTC, during that period. "It was against the culture and they believed information was best gleaned by other means."
I wonder if little Dickie Clarke has upped his lawyer's retainer in the past few days...
Pinz
Thans for the ping, Sleuth! This could get verrry interesting (I hope, I hope)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.