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."
MacTraitor's been scrubbed from Sam Nunn's CSIS website.
Hmmmm, I'm sensing a pattern here...
YIKES!
I wish I could help...
I did a tech ping see if they can help.
Damn, the GlobalSecurity.org docs on McCarthy disappeared. Dang it.
Yes, isn't that special?!!! Where is the disclosure that her husband is an anti-war activist who lobbies Congress?!
No...you don't you sound great...but, I think the subject matter was something to giggle over most of the time...
NOW..you guys get into THIS subject you won't feel like giggling..you will feel like YELLING!!!
We should have taken screen shots. They're going to scrub like mad.
OMG Enchante!! I am just reading along as quick as I can here watching one dot after another come together and you just did a big BINGO!
The polls are closing in about 30 minutes in New Orleans...
And they say they will have a "winner" about midnight...but, that Nagin is "doing well"....sigh
Yep. Excellent point and suggestion.
LOL! Just like I do to my TV!!!?
;-)
Lisa Witter, who got her start working with local women's organizations, is now a contestant on a political reality TV show for Showtime. She has helped behind the scenes for many great local organizations you all know and love. She stays in touch but currently runs Fenton Communications out of New York
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http://www.lisawitter.blogspot.com
I don't believe it!
If they elect him... I will throw a full-fledged fit if they want ANY federal help at all....
INSANITY to trust that man with ANYTHING!
What page was he on?
LOL I don't know to take screen shots and save them.
Years ago, I bought Alexander Cockburn's book "Washington Babylon" just so I could be brought up to speed about the so-called Beltway icons. I had no idea that Cockburn was so radical, but he actually skewers BOTH sides in his book, which is unusual. Although it's outdated (printed in 1995 or so), I learned a lot about the incestuous relationships in Washington.
The preview... guess who was on a think tank with this one?
They had pre-prepared anti-spin.
CBS) A CIA official who had a top role during the run-up to the Iraqi war charges the White House with ignoring intelligence that said there were no weapons of mass destruction or an active nuclear program in Iraq.
The former highest ranking CIA officer in Europe, Tyler Drumheller, also says that while the intelligence community did give the White House some bad intelligence, it also gave the White House good intelligence — which the administration chose to ignore.
Drumheller talks to 60 Minutes correspondent Ed Bradley in his first television interview this Sunday, April 23 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
Drumheller, who retired last year, says the White House ignored crucial information from a high and credible source. The source was Iraq's foreign minister, Naji Sabri, with whom U.S. spies had made a deal.
When CIA Director George Tenet delivered this news to the president, the vice president and other high ranking officials, they were excited — but not for long.
"[The source] told us that there were no active weapons of mass destruction programs," says Drumheller. "The [White House] group that was dealing with preparation for the Iraq war came back and said they were no longer interested. And we said 'Well, what about the intel?' And they said 'Well, this isn't about intel anymore. This is about regime change.' "
They didn't want any additional data from Sabri because, says Drumheller: "The policy was set. The war in Iraq was coming and they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy."
The White House declined to respond to this charge, but Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has stated that Sabri was just one source and therefore not reliable.
Drumheller says the administration routinely relied on single sources — when those single sources confirmed what the White House wanted to hear.
"They certainly took information that came from single sources on the yellowcake story and on several other stories with no corroboration at all," he says. The "yellowcake story" refers to a report the CIA received in late 2001 alleging that Iraq had purchased 500 tons of uranium from Africa, presumably to build a nuclear bomb.
Many in the CIA doubted the uranium report from the beginning, and continued to doubt it, even as White House speechwriters tried to include the report in the president’s speeches.
In a major speech the president was scheduled to give in Cincinnati, the leadership of the CIA intervened directly to remove the uranium report from the speech. But that didn't stop it from making it into the president's State of the Union address a short time later.
"As a British report," says Drumheller. A senior CIA official signed off on the speech only because the uranium reference was attributed to the British.
"It just sticks in my craw every time I hear them say it's an intelligence failure. … This was a policy failure. … I think, over time, people will look back on this and see this is going to be one of the great, I think, policy mistakes of all time," Drumheller tells Bradley.
Sheesh
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