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CIA Fires Officer For Leaking Classified Information to Media
Fox News ^ | April 21, 2006

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."

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To: NAVY84

That's a good question. Somebody from the CIA would have to testify before the Grand Jury. But a lower level employee would probably be sufficient.


1,621 posted on 04/22/2006 12:40:19 PM PDT by popdonnelly
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To: Mo1

Hey I've had three hours sleep.. in the last two days...I know confusion inside and out...:-)


1,622 posted on 04/22/2006 12:41:24 PM PDT by Dog (Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.)
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To: DCPatriot

The L.A. Slimes did have it above the fold, but it was the most innocuous, sterile accounting of what has gone down you could imagine. Anyone used to the Slimes usual biased "analysis" style of spin would be shocked how this was reported. I sent a letter to the editor opining that this hit them too hard to organize a spin, so they had to play it straight for a change......


1,623 posted on 04/22/2006 12:41:40 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Dog

double shift?


1,624 posted on 04/22/2006 12:42:18 PM PDT by Mo1 ("Stupidity is also a gift from God, but it should not be abused." Pope John Paul II)
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To: DCPatriot
I purposefully turned on CNN at noon to see how they were covering this story. The noon report summarized the top items of the day. They started with gas prices and then gave a synopsis of about 10 more stories including a report on iguanas. No mention was made of the fired CIA employee.

I turned back on Fox and they were in the middle of Katherine Herritage report dealing with the CIA leaker.

I was going to call CNN at their local number here in Atlanta and complain (404-827-0234) but I figured why even bother.
1,625 posted on 04/22/2006 12:42:22 PM PDT by Republican Red ("How good is it? Al-Jazeera gave it 4 1/2 pipe bombs")
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To: Mo1

Who is Mary McCarthy? [The Great One, Mark Levin, weighs in...]
NRO ^ | 4/22/2006 | Mark Levin

Posted on 04/22/2006 3:03:40 PM EDT by Uncledave
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1619604/posts


1,626 posted on 04/22/2006 12:42:58 PM PDT by Mo1 ("Stupidity is also a gift from God, but it should not be abused." Pope John Paul II)
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To: kcvl

To all: in piecing together Mary McCarthy's connections to numerous other parties to the leaks and scandal-mongering of the left, let's look for every possible way in which she and Dana Priest have interlocking connections with the people who brought us Pflamegate, NSAgate, Prisongate, etc. etc. The names of Sandy Burglar, Richard Clarke, Rand Beers, Larry Johnson, Ray McGovern, Joe Wilson, and similar charlatans have been popping up all over the place.

It may seem like a mere tangent for discussion, but I suspect when she went back into the CIA after being out of government, she sought and obtained the senior position in the IG's office of the CIA with the SPECIFIC PURPOSE of becoming the "deep throat" of the hate-Bush mongerers of VIPS, Pflamegate, etc. She wanted to both coalesce and organize the anti-Bush officials still within the CIA and become (she hoped) the secure conduit of their info and attacks to MSM.

Remember that she was out of government (left in the NSC) in the summer of 2001 and would seem to have had a future path of liberal foundations and think tanks, academic fellowships, etc. Yet, in a most curious manner she returns to the CIA a couple of years later, still under the hated Bush administration, to take a high position in the most sensitive IG's office, where she would be privy to all kinds of sensitive internal investigations and secrets.

Maybe she was just hankering to serve her country again, yeah right.....

It may not seem to matter to freeper investigations of particular threads of background of Mary McCarthy and others around her, but I think that an overarching hypothesis that she was actively seeking to sponsor and coordinate the anti-Bush forces from high within the CIA, and that's why she went back, may lend energy and focus to our efforts.

One of the articles about her post-government life after 2001 had a friend mentioning that Mary McCarthy was thinking of pursuing "public interest law" as a new career. That's usually lefty-speak for working on 'progressive' causes....

A working hypothesis: Mary McCarthy went back into the CIA, against all odds (how many former officials return like that, and especially under an administration that they hate), specifically to sponsor and coordinate anti-Bush forces from within.

Again, you may think it doesn't matter to have that more general 'conspiratorial' hypothesis when we already know some of the outlines of what she did do, but I think it's helpful to consider how these traitors think about things when looking for overall patterns of their behavior.


1,627 posted on 04/22/2006 12:45:42 PM PDT by Enchante (Democrats: "We are ALL broken and worn out, our party & ideas, what else is new?")
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To: Mo1

Yeah sort of.


1,628 posted on 04/22/2006 12:46:05 PM PDT by Dog (Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.)
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To: Mo1

Colleagues Say C.I.A. Analyst Played by Rules (NYT in Spin Mode over Mary O. McCarthy)
The New York Slimes ^ | 22 April 2006 | DAVID S. CLOUD

Posted on 04/22/2006 3:27:36 PM EDT by demlosers
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1619622/posts


1,629 posted on 04/22/2006 12:46:10 PM PDT by Mo1 ("Stupidity is also a gift from God, but it should not be abused." Pope John Paul II)
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To: hipaatwo

Thanks for the pings, to this matter, hipaatwo. We're getting thunderstorms on and off here and I can't stay on very long at any given time today so the pings have helped me stay at least a little caught up.


1,630 posted on 04/22/2006 12:46:26 PM PDT by Peach
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To: woofie
I want a synopsis and I also want assurance that everyone knows what the hell they are talking about

Sign me up. I want the Cliff Notes or the Romper Room Edition.

It's gonna take me all night to read this stuff! And I need to go out now!

1,631 posted on 04/22/2006 12:46:33 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: pinz-n-needlez

Thanks for the pings to this stuff - can't stay on the computer much today because of thunderstorms.


1,632 posted on 04/22/2006 12:47:11 PM PDT by Peach
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To: tcrlaf; popdonnelly; Mo1; Peach; STARWISE; freema
"Sorry, dumb(edited). Exposing illegal activity makes her a WHISTLEBLOWER PROTECTED BY LAW. Chew on THAT you (edited)ing Nazi prick!!!!!!!"

Wow! That's incredible.

****

Marxism/Socialism/the Democrat Party:

The act of standing on your head and telling the world it is upside down.

1,633 posted on 04/22/2006 12:47:19 PM PDT by beyond the sea (Oh, for the days when "disrespect" was just a noun.)
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To: Enchante
Anyone in the mood for some irony? In 2003 McCarthy appeared on an panel at NYU discussing...Securing the Homeland.
1,634 posted on 04/22/2006 12:47:45 PM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: Dems_R_Losers

Mary was Larry Johnson's boss? Whoa!

How would we ever describe all this to people on the "outside" who have no idea what's going on?


1,635 posted on 04/22/2006 12:47:54 PM PDT by Peach
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To: STARWISE
Since you just haaaaaaaaad to post that ; )

But despite the soldiers' best efforts, Priest says, "they make some mistakes, and they make some bad mistakes, which gives me pause about what they are doing there." As an alternative, Priest proposes the creation of civilian nation-building forces that are as well organized and well funded as the military. The U.S. experience in postwar Iraq has, if anything, strengthened her view.

Allow me to fix it.

But despite the reporters' best efforts, freema says, "they make some mistakes, and they make some bad mistakes, which gives me pause about what they are doing there." As an alternative, freema proposes the creation of civilian nation-building forces that are as well organized and well funded as the MSM. The U.S. experience in postwar Iraq has, if anything, strengthened her view.

Let me also say that if a plane goes barrelling toward the Priest household or place of employment, I really don't think any military intercept is necessary since the military makes some mistakes....some bad mistakes. I'd hate for them to ground the plane on Plames' house.

1,636 posted on 04/22/2006 12:48:03 PM PDT by freema (Proud Marine FRiend, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
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To: Mo1; Grampa Dave

I am FINALLY getting back to this thread....when I had to leave...(unexpected babysitting)...the thread had about 400 posts....LOL

I don't have time to read them all...but, I see YOU have been really involved...good going.

I do have one question: What is that thread that Grampa Dave has been posting about that he had "locked"?


1,637 posted on 04/22/2006 12:48:34 PM PDT by Txsleuth
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To: Txsleuth

it's this thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1619501/posts


1,638 posted on 04/22/2006 12:49:37 PM PDT by Mo1 ("Stupidity is also a gift from God, but it should not be abused." Pope John Paul II)
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To: Enchante
"From this and other sources, it's already emerged that Dana Priest and her husband turn out to be linked to just about everyone behind Pflamegate, Prisongate, NSAgate, etc."
Looks like the URL you offered is not working. Perhaps they shut it down so that people will not to to it, as things heat up.
1,639 posted on 04/22/2006 12:52:52 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned)
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To: Mo1
A little bit more on McCarthy's backround from this link:

Mary McCarthy, a CIA officer,is currently a visiting fellow at The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Prior to joining CSIS in August 2001, Mary O. McCarthy was a senior policy adviser to the CIA's deputy director for science and technology. Until July 2001, she served as special assistant to the president and senior director for intelligence programs on the National Security Council (NSC) Staff, under both Presidents Clinton and Bush. From 1991 until her appointment to the NSC, McCarthy served on the National Intelligence Council. She began her government service as an analyst, then manager, in CIA's Directorate of Intelligence, holding positions in both African and Latin American analysis. From 1979 to 1984 she was employed by BERI, S.A., conducting financial, operational, and political risk assessments for multinational companies and banks. Previously she had taught at the University of Minnesota and was director of the Social Science Data Archive at Yale University. She is the author of Social Change and the Growth of British Power in the Gold Coast (University Press of America, 1983). McCarthy has a B.A. and M.A. in history from Michigan State University, an M.A. in library science from the University of Minnesota, and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Minnesota

Anyone know anything about BERI, SA?

Or about the timing of her leaving the NSC in July of 2001?

1,640 posted on 04/22/2006 12:52:57 PM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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