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."

Excerpt.

[ScaniaBoy]

For two decades Mel Goodman was a CIA analyst on Soviet affairs. After the assassination plot on Pope John Paul II he was one of the most ardent critics of anyone who tried to link the Soviets to the failed murder attempt.

Despite the fact that DDCI Bob Gates tried to lean backwards and make an as objective reassessment of the case as possible (according to the testimonies of other CIA analysts: Kay Oliver, Beth Seger, and Lance Haus), Mel Goodman in a testimony to the Congress tried to have Bob Gates' nomination to DCI blocked. Goodman claimed that Gates (and Casey) had unduly tried to influence the analysis, to suit his political convictions.

(See also post #6 here)

Eventually Gates was nominated and Goodman left the CIA for academia.

Now, some 15 years later we know who was right and who was wrong in this case. It seems that the person who let his political conviction cloud his analytical judgment was Mel Goodman rather than Mr Gates. In all likelihood Mel Goodman was one of the CIA analysts that leaked info to discredit Claire Sterling's book the Terror Network (and later Time of the Assassins). In actual fact one source (one article she quoted) could be traced to the CIA station in Rome. However, it is a far cry from "one item" to call it "largely a product of the CIA's disinformation department" (J Adams: The Financing of Terror. New English Library, 1988, p 3).

At that time Mel Goodman was definitely not the only one within the CIA trying to whitewash the Russians. Here is a story concerning one of ravingnutter's "good friends":

The DI's reluctance to link the KGB to murder and terrorism was matched elsewhere, including in the CIA's Rome station where Clarridge informed an influential visitor, Senator Alphonse D'Amato, that as yet there was nothing to support Claire Sterling's allegations of Soviet complicity in the assassination plot. This view, unwisely expressed directly to her at a Rome cocktail party by Vince Cannistraro, one of Clarridge's staff, had elicited a furious response, and Casey got to hear of both incidents. When offered a meeting with Sterling by Herbert Meyer, his special assistant whom he had brought in from Fortune magazine, Casey seized the opportunity and, accompanied by the deputy director of operations (DDO) John McMahon, delivered a diatribe about how his staff was better at finding excuses for the Soviets than digging for the real dirt. General Haig was equally dissatisfied....

(Nigel West: The Third Secret, The CIA, Solidarity and the KGB's plot to kill the Pope. Harper Collins, 2001, p 30.)

All this is of course old affairs, but it seems that the same people pop up time and time again. Of course anyone can make a mistake; there were no water tight evidence that the Soviets were involved in terrorism. However, when they never acknowledge their errors, and continue to discredit the people who were right, then if not before, one may clearly start to doubt the honesty of those persons. (I'm trying to be fair although it is counter to my nature ;) )

The revelation that Mrs McCarthy was a "leaker", that she is connected to the pro-Kerry cabal, and that the journalist she leaked to is connected to far-left organizations is huge. I hope that this will get the attention it deserves.

[Republican Red]

Public records also show that Ms. McCarthy contributed $5,000 in October 2004 to the Ohio Democratic Party.

Ms. McCarthy is not a citizen of Ohio

[IonInsights]

To this point, they have not realized that all this is not a game nor is it a tit-for-tat nor is it about who is in power in this country. This war is serious and deadly! If they are just now realizing how serious these leaks are they are more foolish than I thought.

Well, actually, in one sense, it is about who is in power in this country, and right now President GW is in power, and as leader of the Executive branch controls the Justice Department.

[for-q-clinton]

Wow you really don't make any sense. You come on here attacking me for suggesting someone be a little more polite online. And then you pull this kind of crap thread. Do me a favor and never post a response to me again and I'll do the same for you. I don't like talking with idiots, so I'd prefer you leave me alone.

[samantha]

Sandy Burglar would have done it to save his skin. He did not get jail time for stealing Archives and destroying them. He may have rolled over on Mary. Yuk! That mental picture should have a barf alert attached.

[kcvl]

Ms. McCarthy is not a citizen of Ohio

I think we can assume that she has an agenda along with Dana Priest and her anti-war activist husband.

[Txsleuth]

I just think that there are so many tentacles that are attached to this one woman...and her friends, family, contacts, politicians, ex-coworkers...

That it could take a LONG time to connect THAT many dots...

And, I wonder if all of this is one reason that President Bush has seemed so calm about all of the name-calling and the attacks against his Administration for all of these so-called lies, and false information to go to war...etc?

[Miss Marple]

I think you are right about President Bush. Several times I have seen his picture on The Dose and he has looked quote happy and serene, while the attacks flew around him.

[kcvl]

Dana Priest's anti-war activist husband.

Bill Goodfellow, executive director: Goodfellow is one of the founders of the Center. He oversees the management of the Program with responsibilities for fundraising, personnel and outreach to other organizations. Goodfellow has extensive experience as an analyst of U.S. aid policies and an advocate of greater transparency and accountability.

[ordi]

Torie Clark also said this at 4:08 on the video.

Torie Clark: They would push back on you and say look on on both of those stories we worked with people. We worked with Government officials on what they didn’t think was so offensive and we actually held back some information that we thought and they thought was very very sensitive and might really put lives at harm those sorts of things.

This is going to be another part of the Media's story. Hey look we did not publish all of it so we did not break the law or put people in harms way. IOW, they think and will say, What's the big deal?

To me that is like a stoolie saying, Hey, I only told them he was running drugs, not where he was storing them or who he was selling too.

The media NEVER thinks about how what they report effects the rest of us! It's to hell with you peons in fly over country we know what is best and we want our Pulitzer and we want the second coming of Watergate!

[maica]

"In the 1990s the Center attracted a number of senior diplomats to its staff and expanded its agenda to include reform of the nation's intelligence agencies. We continued to play an important role in Central America's post-conflict reconciliation, the effort to end the counter-productive isolation of Cuba, and efforts to limit military assistance to the Western Hemisphere, especially Colombia.

Well isn't That special!

[pinz-n-needlez]

Daniel Schorr failed to mention it during his weekly chat on NPR. Gee, can't imagine why. lol

Pinz

[STARWISE]

Thanks, Dems; they're doing a great job at Strata- Sphere

For any reasonable government employee working in any of our intelligence agencies to compliment a co-worker's criminal release of classified information in a time of war and to actually say that her actions are in "the finest traditions of the Republic" illustrates just how depraved and psychologically dilusional they are, and just how much trouble we're in. God help us and save us from these nuts.

I'm calling these revelations more proof of:

Infectious DC INCEST:

INCEST:

"Right on cue Larry Johnson pokes his head up and smells fish:

The case against the CIA Intelligence Officer, Mary McCarthy, fired for her alleged role in leaking information about secret prisons to the Washington Post’s Dana Priest smells a little fishy. Let me state at the outset that the officer in question, Mary McCarthy, is an old acquaintance. I hasten to add that I do not consider her a friend. She was my immediate boss in 1988-89 and was instrumental in my decision to leave the CIA and take a job at the State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism.

Larry seems to be trying to put some distance between his old boss and himself! Wonder why? Well, Larry’s big mouth is proving to be quite enlightening:

That said, I take no delight in the news that she was fired. In fact, there are some things about the case that puzzle me. For starters, Mary never worked on the Operations side of the house. In other words, she never worked a job where she would have had first hand operational knowledge about secret prisons.

Buy yourself a clue Larry, she was tipped by others who hoped her position in the IG’s office would insulate her from detection. Duh! Why am I not surprised Larry once worked for Mary.

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INCEST:

Robert David STEELE Vivas, a career intelligence officer who went on to found the Marine Corps Intelligence Command and then the international Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) movement, spoke today in praise of Mary McCarthy, and simultaneously called for the censure of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI).

“There is absolutely no question that Mary acted in the finest traditions of the Republic, helping reveal and reduce terrible violations of international law and human rights by the CIA.

… “America has lost sight of the fundamentals. If the DNI and DCI were more astute and more willing to engage with those who actually know how to reform intelligence, we would be committing fewer crimes against humanity and catching more terrorists. We would also be educating the President, overcoming his largely deficient education, by presenting the real world in compelling terms demanding sensible strategy and sustained attention.

My diagnosis: Extreme Bush Derangement Syndrome."

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They will stop at nothing to tear down this country ... unless we and like-minded patriots discover the facts that we can get out onto the public airwaves ..and unless we bug the he** out of our Congresscritters to stand up and save America from these demons. God bless America.

[maica]

And the Washington Post knows this, and does nothing.

^^^^

Correction: ...the Washington Post knows this, and supports the efforts.

[Enchante]

re: Mel Goodman

He is a radical leftist who just happens to be Director of the "National Security Program" for CIP, the "Center for International Policy"..... which just happens to be founded and headed by..... Dana Priest's husband, William Goodfellow!!

http://www.ciponline.org/

Read Mel Goodman's leftist screed against the WH (attacking Cheney for being at odds with CIA subversion of the elected government of the USA) in light of what's been happening with Mary McCarthy and Dana Priest, and then try to imagine that it's just coincidental that Dana Priest worked with Mary McCarthy to commit TREASON while her husband sponsored people like Mel Goodman to justify it:

http://www.ciponline.org/nationalsecurity/publications/Articles/goodman110405.htm

[maica]

And the Washington Post knows this, and does nothing.

^^^^

Correction: ...the Washington Post knows this, and supports the efforts.

[ordi]

In that sense your correct. Also, it is about who runs the Pentagon and the Military. So in base terms it comes down to what side will fight the GWOT and who won't. The Dems only want the power for WIIFM = What is in it for ME! Money, Power and Fame and not what is best for the rest of us.

[nannaj34]

read post 1426..I wrote it earlier...and i'm still steamed at this hour by not hearing anyone but fox really talk about this, and thats not very much either...as i stated in my earlier post..."We will destroy you from within"...(who said that??) and believe me they have been out there for a very long time working hard to do that...we should send a mass mailing to all the media and demand that they talk and write about this CIA officer and other traitors....nannaj34

[CFC__VRWC]

Mel Goodman - is he by any chance related to far left "journalist" Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! ?

[pinz-n-needlez]

Kerry should have said, "Where can I get me one of them clues?"

Idiot! (him, not you)

Pinz