CIA Fires Officer For Leaking Classified Information to Media

Fox News ^ | April 21, 2006

[Howlin]

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."

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[SE Mom]

Sheesh...I turned on Greta- All Duke, all the time. Surfed around- MSNBC had another story about life in prison, Anderson Cooper told us how he was going to keep the oil companies honest and discussed price gouging...I landed on HGTV and fell asleep!

[freema]

Then you end up with -- as a citizen rather than as an intelligence expert, that would concern me. That you have a group of operatives, essentially, who are used to very proactive -- in a different kind of legal framework -- activity, undertaking domestic operations. So I think it has to be solely an analytic component. But it would also have to have some way of stimulating collection, which I think makes it very difficult to try to kind of visualize or legislate such a component, because it's kind of a fine line sometimes between collecting -- particularly in domestic groups -- and interfering in their lives and First Amendment issues and so on. But that would be what I would favor.

McCarthy says this, and yet the left screamed loudly over domestic collection. Something's not hitting on all cylinders here.

[Capn TrVth]

The idea of these "Leakers" being strapped up to lie-detectors warms the cockles of my heart. -Let Jack Bauer and "Wilson" work on 'em for a while ;>

[pinz-n-needlez]

Is this the new thread for today?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1619418/posts

Pinz

[bonfire]

I'd like to see them strapped up to something with a little more voltage.

[Capn TrVth]

I don't know... Agent Wilson has some pretty neat tricks ;>

[petercooper]

What a joker Rocky is- here's that memo he wrote to himself. I hope he goes down.

[freema]

I can remember where I was, and what I was doing when I found out there were real words. ROTF!

[maica]

Mares eat oats. And does eat oats. And little lambs eat ivy. A kid will eat ivy too, Wouldn't you?

Thank you, Captain Kangaroo. :-)

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Thank you, pinz. My education continues

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Mare zee doats and dozy doats and little lambsy ivy. I've also seen it written as: "Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey"

Thank you, BigSkyFr - I must have seen your rendition written in the past, and had no idea that real words and ideas were at the root.

[theophilusscribe]

Archiving . . .

C.I.A. Fires Senior Officer Over Leaks [Served Under Clinton & Kerry Supporter]

Sandy Berger appointed CIA officer fired for leak

CIA Officer Is Fired for Media Leaks

NBC: CIA officer fired after admitting leak- Name is Mary McCarthy

CIA Fires Employee for Leaking to Media

CIA Fires Employee for Alleged Leak (of classified info to news media)

Pulitzer Prizes For Treachery

Mary O. McCarthy - Visiting Fellow, International Security Program

The Wayback Machine 6/17/98: BERGER APPOINTS MCCARTHY SPECIAL ASSISTANT FOR INTELLIGENCE

[MNJohnnie]

Figures, Clintonite. Nothing those people touched has remained uncorrupted. Did she figure she would get to be the next Monica if she committed treason?

[theophilusscribe]

I just hope they keep exposing these traitors and that this is the beginning of a very extensive cleaning out.

[SE Mom]

Thanks for the links..it helps to see the Big Picture.

[theophilusscribe]

CIA fires source of leaks for prize-winning stories

[theophilusscribe]

Thanks, SE Mom. I know that backhoe is the achiving hero, maybe this little list will help him a little bit. :o)

#1350 for some links, backhoe. And thanks for all you do!! :o)

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I'm glad the CIA is actually doing something to the guy, but there once was a day when mishandling classified information was a CRIME, not just something that you get fired over.

[backhoe]

Thanks for those links- very helpful.

[Samwise]

Good catch, Timeout! Thanks for the link, Peach.

[MEG33]

Bump

[meema]

bttt!