CIA Fires Officer For Leaking Classified Information to Media

...except to say..that if they [secret prisons] didn't exist, why would a CIA agent leak it???

Same reason the CIA sent Joe Wilson on that mission to Niger?

201 posted on 04/21/2006 1:02:15 PM PDT by elli1

202 posted on 04/21/2006 1:02:37 PM PDT by true_blue_texican ((grateful Texan!!))

To: roses of sharon

Doesn't Plame still work there??

203 posted on 04/21/2006 1:03:06 PM PDT by Txsleuth

No, Plame left and the end of last year, I believe. She and her lieing hubby have moved to California, last I read.

204 posted on 04/21/2006 1:04:00 PM PDT by Laverne

bookmkPing for later ,... just got home

205 posted on 04/21/2006 1:05:30 PM PDT by Dad yer funny

To: kcvl; Howlin

Thanks kcvl!

Howlin...that "operational" word is BIG...because I know that even in the classified hearings that were given to the Congress re: the NSA program..AFTER they pitched a fit...

they were NOT given "operational" information about the program and Rockefeller and others were FURIOUS..that they weren't...

So...that word "operational"..is a BIG hint at the seriousness, IMHO>

206 posted on 04/21/2006 1:05:34 PM PDT by Txsleuth

To: hipaatwo; Howlin

... the recent scandal in the CIA involving ~~undercover agent~~ Valerie Plame’s name ~~identity~~ being ~~revealed~~ printed...

the National Security Agency’s ~~domestic warrantless eavesdropping~~ electronic surveillence program.

There, I that's better.

Thanks for the ping Howlin.

207 posted on 04/21/2006 1:05:52 PM PDT by Just A Nobody

B b b but have you seen how expensive gasoline is? Women, minorities, and children are pawning their clothing and Chinese plastic junk just for enough gas to get to the post office and pick up their government benefits. Oh the hugh manatee. Besides, everyone knew that Rumsfeld personally tortured people in the rogue CIA prisons ;)

208 posted on 04/21/2006 1:05:59 PM PDT by ARealMothersSonForever (Political troglodyte with a partisan axe to grind)

He's watching the two stripper gals boxing!!!

209 posted on 04/21/2006 1:06:01 PM PDT by OldFriend (I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)

CIA Officer Fired for Leaking Classified Info to Media

Hope it is more than firing - should be the firing line!

210 posted on 04/21/2006 1:06:11 PM PDT by p23185 (Being trashed by the Stone Age Press should be worn as a badge of honor by Repubs and Conservatives)

To: kcvl; Howlin; ohioWfan; onyx; Miss Marple; Fedora; Txsleuth; All

Ironically, Dana Priest was on a live chat yesterday for the WashToast just yesterday .. --

Excerpts:

Winnipeg, Canada: Congratulations on your Pulitzer. You reporting is the kind that is vital for a thriving democracy. How do you respond to people who have said you should be tried for treason instead?

Dana Priest: Well, calmly most of the time. Just because something is classified does not make it automatically something that the world shouldn't know about. We take the issue of national security damage very seriously and, in particular, in the secret prison stories, Len Downie, the executive editor, held back on naming the countries.

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Boston, Mass.: Kudos to you, Dana. I can imagine it is not always comfortable or easy doing the kind of investigative reporting you do where the pressure is most likely to drop it than pursue it, at least from representatives of the government, perhaps some of your sources and, heaven forbid, The Post editorial/publisher side itself.

Readers like myself, however, greatly appreciate the intellect, meticulous sourcing and follow through that you do. Where would a free press be without great journalists. The Pulitzer folks knew what they were doing!

I do have a question--let's say that the dust settles on the present administration and that the Congress is more of a brake on certain activities (like using foreign bases to do to prisoners what we cannot do here). Has the national security apparatus and the international alliances been shifted enough that a change in U.S. administrations is unlikely to change, truly, how we now do business? Or could a differently principled President or Congress actually put an end to the current shenanigans?

Dana Priest: I certainly think any change will bring a reassessment of the what I think of as some of the more controversial elements of the CIA"s war on terrorism. Not the fact that they've successfully established deeper intel relationships with countries around the world to hunt/disrupt terrorists and their support networks, but certainly on the issue of secret prisons and interrogation techniques.

If nothing else, I would think the new prez would want to assess the effectiveness of such things on actually gaining any new and valuable information and also the cost, in terms of the US strategic aims, of a decline in the standing of the US around the world--which has certainly occurred in the last several years, in part because of some of these methods.

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Arlington, Va.: No doubt about it, a free media is critical in a democratic system. However, it is not the media's job to determine whether or not information is classified. There are legal processes for declassifying documents. And Congress, as the overseer of the intelligence community (residing in the executive branch), has the responsibility to deal with issues of excessive government secrecy, or not enough secrecy. When the media decides for itself whether or not documents should be declassified, they are breaking the law and should be prosecuted.

Dana Priest: Well, actually, the media is not breaking the law by publishing classified information. That's still a safeguard we have in the law. The person/s who turn it over are breaking the law, technically. But the courts and the body politic have always looked at this as the cost of democracy and that is one huge reason why reporters have not be pursued previously. It's the trade off for having a free press. The alternative is prior censorship and government control of the media, a la Israel, China, Iran, etc.

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211 posted on 04/21/2006 1:06:39 PM PDT by STARWISE (They (Rats) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author:)

Top of the hour on the Situation Room...and CNN STILL hasn't mentioned this story...

NOW, they are talking about more "possible" shakeups in the Bush Administration and Tony Snow...LOL

212 posted on 04/21/2006 1:06:58 PM PDT by Txsleuth

Yeah...I am sure that Chrissy Matthews will be ALL over this tonight....LOL..../sarc

Yep, the dude's a bit, well, fixated on the Scooter case, isn't he.

I've not seen so much flying spittle since R Lee Ermey in "Full Metal Jacket". 8^)

213 posted on 04/21/2006 1:07:14 PM PDT by AngryJawa ({NRA}{IDPA})

The most recent ratings had Hairball getting less viewers than Olberwomann.

214 posted on 04/21/2006 1:07:52 PM PDT by OldFriend (I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)

Delete buttons do not delete anything. These people are getting lawyered up.

215 posted on 04/21/2006 1:08:24 PM PDT by ARealMothersSonForever (Political troglodyte with a partisan axe to grind)

216 posted on 04/21/2006 1:08:36 PM PDT by woofie

You mean this may be linked to Dana Priest?
I could have a REALLy good day if that is true

Maybe he'll be wearing a different kind of orange outfit soon??

I know .. wishful thinking

217 posted on 04/21/2006 1:09:03 PM PDT by Mo1 ("Stupidity is also a gift from God, but it should not be abused." Pope John Paul II)

Didn't TIME magazine just name Durbin as one of the Top 5 Senators?

-PJ

218 posted on 04/21/2006 1:09:22 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (It's still not safe to vote Democrat.)

Yes, Plame took early retirement.

It was never disclosed if her Clearance was revoked nor whether she can still hold a Clearance.

Her retirement "smelled", if you will....

219 posted on 04/21/2006 1:10:18 PM PDT by Prost1 (Sandy Berger can steal, Clinton can cheat, but Bush can't listen!)

Great, the CIA leaker was fired.

Next week he will be declared "a Hero" by the Democrats, have an anti-Bush book deal, be on Oprah and get a cushy job teaching at University.

220 posted on 04/21/2006 1:10:52 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (ETERNAL SHAME on the Treasonous and Immoral Democrats!)

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