I think Michelle has Timeout in her sights.
Utterly green with envy, insanely jealous bump
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."
I think Michelle has Timeout in her sights.
Utterly green with envy, insanely jealous bump
I'm not done yet! The privilege of being a soldier's mother is an incredible experience.
I've woke up thinking the same thing.
They put the Plame 'leak' in place shortly after McCarhty returned to the CIA.
Why? To set up the argument for moral equivalence? To glean some shot-from-the-hip rhetorical excuses? To try and build a glass house around Bush?
There are long-range plots and schemes in place with every one of these nonsensical blips it seems.
Pinz
Washington Post Executive Editor Len Downey and Managing Editor Phil Bennett announce The Post's Pulitzer Prize winners.
Pulitzer Prize winners Dana Priest and Robin Givhan hug
Pulitzer Prize winners David Finkel (r), Dana Priest, Robin Givhan (behind Dana) and Susan Schmidt.
Washington Post Managing Editor Phil Bennett (l) with Pulitzer Prize winners David Finkel and Dana Priest.
SWEET!
KERRY: 'IF YOU'RE LEAKING TO TELL THE TRUTH...'(On CIA leak/firing)
The Drudge Report | april 23, 2006 | drudge
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1619945/posts
;-)
Thanks for posting that article.
The Times of London reporter has done a thorough job! Has she been reading this thread on FR?
They also “outed” the CIA operative Valerie Plame, whose husband refuted allegations that Saddam Hussein was trying to buy uranium from Niger. “Apparently, President Bush doesn’t believe what’s good for the CIA is good for the White House,” said Robert Menendez, a Democratic senator.
HOW MUCH CLASSIFIED INFO HAS MARY GIVEN TO JOE WILSON?
Listening to Kennedy yap about Bush not getting OBL. Talk about a Nazi. Unbelievable that he can spew such utterly ignorant comments with a straight face seeing as he's a FOB AND OBL.
Glad to see Dana Priest in the HRC uniform. Surely Ms Givhan would approve.
Thinking alike. I just got to this after flipping all over the place trying to catch up. See my post #2409.
{{{infinite hugs}}}
I'm right with ya...it hit me about the third cup of coffee.
It's Hard to Keep Up...
...with the revelations coming out about Dana Priest, the Washington Post reporter who published the "secret prisons" story, and Mary McCarthy, the Democratic Party activist and now-fired CIA bureaucrat who leaked the story to Priest.
Sweetness & Light points out that Dana Priest is married to William Goodfellow, the Executive Director of the the Center for International Policy (CIP)http://www.ciponline.org/staff.htm. At the top of its web site is CIP's mission statement: "Promoting a foreign policy based on cooperation, demilitarization and human rights." It appears that CIP's idea of "demilitarization and human rights" is best exemplified by Cuba.
http://www.sweetness-light.com/archive/dana-priests-husband-gets-joe-wilson-media-gigs/
Sweetness & Light goes on to hightlight connections among CIP, which operates The Iraq Policy Information Program, Joe Wilson, and Dana Priest. This is not just guilt by association: Priest herself participated in an anti-Iraq war program put on by her husband's group, CIP, along with Joe Wilson and other even more unsavory characters. (Via The Corner)http://corner.nationalreview.com/.
Then we have Ms. McCarthy, the CIA leaker, who turns out to be a substantial contributor to the Democratic Party. Andy McCarthy notes that the Washington Post has published a sympatetic portrait of McCarthy--who leaked, remember, to the Post, resulting in a story for which the Post won a Pulitzer Prize--which touts McCarthy as unbiased without ever mentioning that she was a Kerry supporter who has given up to $7,700 a year to Democratic candidates!
http://corner.nationalreview.com/06_04_23_corner-archive.asp#095652
So we have a Democratic Party activist violating federal law by leaking classified information to an antiwar activist on the payroll of the Washington Post, which publishes the criminal leak and is awarded a prize by the left-wing Pulitzer committee.
Finally, several bloggers are speculating about the possibility that the whole "secret prisons" story might have been a sting operation by the CIA designed to catch a leaker. I don't think this can be true, based mosly on public statements that have been made by intelligence officials, but it is a curious fact that there doesn't seem to be any evidence for the existence of the secret prisons other than Dana Priest's story. Can it be that this is one secret the CIA has actually been able to keep, but for the leak?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1619945/posts
SEN. KERRY: Well, I read that. I don't know whether she did it or not so it's hard to have a view on it. Here's my fundamental view of this, that you have somebody being fired from the CIA for allegedly telling the truth, and you have no one fired from the white house for revealing a CIA agent in order to support a lie. That underscores what's really wrong in Washington, DC Here.
Maybe he should consider this little item:
EU official: No evidence of illegal CIA action
Antiterror chief advises committee
De Vries told the committee no EU-US agreement authorized secret renditions of terror suspects, that hundreds of CIA flights did not occur over Europe as reported by various media organizations, and that he has no news of European countries using intelligence obtained under torture.
(Of course, as can be seen from the rest of that article some Members of the European Parliament (the Toy Parliament) and others are not satisfied with Mr de Vries' statement, but that is where the case stands at the moment.)
DC CHAPTER PING
I had the same thought.
The "prison story" might have simply been speculation on Mary's part or "entered into Top Secret Papers to trap Mary". You have to go back and read Condi's statement.
I would guess that all countries named would have been warned by us and that will remain "Top Secret" for years. The leaker is the enemy...not the countries involved.
Is that the culture that could not exist without the approval of the leaders at the very tippy top of the Democrat Party? Well it could, and it would, but it still has a nice ring to it.
Robert Atkinson is vice president of the
Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) and director
of PPI’s Technology & New Economy Project.
Atkinson is the author of the PPI’s New
Economy Index series and numerous reports
on information-technology policy issues, such
as the role of information technology in homeland
defense. He previously served as executive director of the
Rhode Island Economic Policy Council and was project director
at the former Congressional Office of Technology Assessment.
Page 5
http://www.markle.org/downloadable_assets/nstf_members_guide.pdf
What's this?:
Wesley Clark (retired General, U.S. Army)
was most recently chairman of Wesley K.
Clark & Associates, a strategic advisory and
consulting firm. He is chairman of the board
at WaveCrest Laboratories, a firm now developing
a breakthrough electric propulsion system.
He also founded Leadership for
America, a nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization dedicated
to fostering the conversation about America’s future. From
2000 to 2003, Clark served as a managing director for the
Stephens Group, Inc. He served in the U.S. Army for more
than 35 years and rose to become NATO supreme allied commander
and commander in chief of the U.S. European
Command from 1997 to 2000. From 1996 to 1997, Clark
served as commander in chief of the U.S. Southern
Command, Panama. From 1994 to 1996, he served as director
for strategic plans and policy for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, with
responsibilities for worldwide U.S. military strategic planning.
Some more, to make you think real hard:
Morton Halperin is director of the
Washington office of the Open Society
Institute. He is also director of the Center for
Democracy and Free Markets at the Council
on Foreign Relations. Halperin served as
director of Policy Planning Staff at the
Department of State. He was special assistant
to President Clinton and senior director for democracy at the
National Security Council from 1994 to 1996. Other positions
held by Halperin include senior vice president at the Century
Foundation/Twentieth Century Fund, director of the
American Civil Liberties Union’s Washington, DC, office, and
director of the Center for National Security Studies.
John Hamre is the president and CEO of
the Center for Strategic and International
Studies (CSIS). Before joining CSIS, he
served in the Department of Defense as
deputy secretary from 1997 to 1999, and as
under secretary, serving as the agency’s
comptroller from 1993 to 1997. Prior to
that, he worked for ten years as a professional staff member
of the Senate Armed Services Committee. From 1978 to
1984, he served in the Congressional Budget Office, where
he became deputy assistant director for national security and
international affairs.
Arnold Kanter is a principal and founding
member of the Scowcroft Group, an international
business advisory group. He served
as under secretary of state from 1991 to
1993, functioning as the State Department’s
COO. Prior to that, he served on the White
House staff from 1989 to 1991 as special
assistant to the president and in a variety of capacities in the
State Department from 1977 to 1985. He has also held
positions at the RAND Corporation and The Brookings
Institution, and was a faculty member at both Ohio State
University and the University of Michigan.
Check the link, there's much more.
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