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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[surrey]

I hope that Brit will connect all of these people to each other ,on his show,on Monday. You can rest assured that the MSM will go out of their way not to mention any of these names in connection with each other. Of course, most of this is too complicated for many people to understand.

I'm actually stunned how "in bed together" all of these folks are. As someone pointed out, it's no wonder all of these wives go by their maiden names.

[tcrlaf]

Thjought you folks might get a kick out of this particular posting from another board......

CIA LEAKER DESERVES OUR PRAISE
by: bush_is_a_nazi_simpleton
WHEN YOU REVEAL THAT YOUR NATION IS USING TORTURE AND SECRET PRISONS, YOU HAVE DONE NOTHING WRONG. THE PEOPLE WHO SHOULD BE FIRED ARE GRAVYFACE, DUMBSFELD, AND THE CHIMMPANZEE.
LIVE WITH IT NAZI DUMBF(Edited)CKS.

[AliVeritas]

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April 22, 2006
No Prize Again in Pulitzer ‘Non-Treason’ Category
by Scott Ott

(2006-04-22) — For the fifth year in a row, the Pulitzer committee has announced it received no nominees for its journalism award in the “Named Sources, No Leaks, Non-Treason” category.

The news comes a day after the CIA fired a high-ranking officer for disclosing top-secret information to the Washington Post. The Justice Department is also investigating the leak of secret information about an NSA terrorist-monitoring program to The New York Times.

Each paper has recently parlayed intelligence leaks into Pulitzer-prize winning investigative pieces.

The Pulitzer Non-Treasonous Reporting prize recognizes journalists who ply their trade without jeopardizing U.S. national security, or relying on information from government agents who violate the law, or their own terms of employment.

Now in its fifth year, the prize has yet to be awarded, causing the prize money to swell to more than $50,000.

[AliVeritas]

You'll love this one:
Guess who?

The Firing of Mary McCarthy
http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/04/the_firing_of_m.html

[kcvl]

radical activist Elizabeth Farnsworth

[freema]

I do not see a light at the end of this tunnel. It's pretty darn dark in here : )

[Enchante]

PING!! Please see my #1815 and all the other useful posts freepers have been coming up with on this thread.

I haven't been keeping a ping list in a long time (too busy to post consistently) but I may do so now because this Mary McCarthy - Dana Priest stuff is just too good not to follow closely and I suspect/hope there's a lot more to come!

Please freepmail me to be added or deleted from this ping list.

[AliVeritas]

Larry Johnson says the same thing (feel free to laugh with me).

[tcrlaf]

Since when is a confession "Alleged"?????

[freema]

Did John Paul really say that? ROTF!!!

[Crawdad]

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[freema]

Good!!

[kcvl]

"smells a little fishy"


I've been saying the same thing about Larry Johnson. He is in a league by himself when it comes to hating the Bush administration.

[Enchante]

BINGO! What Dana Priest's husband does in his "day job":

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Iraq_Policy_Information_Project

"Who we are: "The Iraq Policy Information Project was formed under the sponsorship of the Center for International Policy, in Washington, DC. The Center for International Policy has sponsored 25 years of citizen diplomacy, promoting a US foreign policy based on international cooperation, demilitarization, and respect for human rights. The day-to-day operation of the Project is managed by Fenton Communications, the public interest public relations firm.

[Crawdad]

Ooops! Wrong crowd. Try these guys, and be prepared to view their homepage. You have been warned.

http://www.fenton.com/pages/home.htm

[kcvl]

I don't know who asked him, but...


Iraq:

A New Project to Head Off a U.S. Invasion

We believe the administration should be pressing Iraq
to disarm as part of a coordinated regional strategy of conflict
resolution and democratization. Such an effort would be
supported by our allies and would give a huge boost to
beleaguered reformers throughout the Middle East. It is the only
sure path to peace in the region.

-William Goodfellow, Executive Director

[Crawdad]

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[AliVeritas]

Also, let's not forget Priest worked together with Pincus on many pieces (JWilson's guy), guess who was over African and Latin affairs when Joe was over there? Mary.

[tcrlaf]

Holy SHIITE!! These guys are the spokesorgan for the radicals??

[STARWISE]

Jeeze -- it IS truly INCEST:

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Over the course of two decades, he has pioneered the use of professional P.R. and advertising techniques by nonprofit public interest groups in the United States and around the world.

Fenton is also a co-founder of three independent nonprofit organizations:

Environmental Media Services, which coordinates communications activities for environmental groups;

New Economy Communications, which works on human rights issues in the global economy;

and the Death Penalty Information Center. Fenton was formerly director of public relations at Rolling Stone magazine and co-producer of the “No Nukes” concerts in 1979 with Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt and other artists. He is a native of New York City.