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.

[Freedom is eternally right]

John Podesta

Mr. Podesta is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for American Progress. Mr. Podesta served as Chief of Staff to President Clinton from October 1998 until January 2001. He was in the President's Cabinet as a Principal on the National Security Council and served in other White House positions within the Clinton administration. Mr. Podesta is a visiting professor of law on the faculty of Georgetown University Law Center. He has served on Capitol Hill as Counselor to Senator Thomas Daschle; Chief Counsel for the Senate Agricultural Committee; Chief Minority Counsel for the Senate Judiciary Subcommittees on Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks, Security and Terrorism, and Regulatory Reform; and Counsel on the Majority Staff of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Mr. Podesta is also co-founder of a government relations and public affairs firm, and was educated at Georgetown University Law Center and Knox College.

[AliVeritas]

I'm so stupid... can you tell I have twenty screens up?
Sorry I left out your mention and/or link.

[Suzy Quzy]

Speaking of the 911 Omission Commission, GET JAMIE GORELICK!!!!

[AliVeritas]

Able Danger.

[ScaniaBoy]

Able Danger - Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Shaffer - Zelikow - 911 Commission - no documents relayed to the 911 Commission

Maybe that's what made you recognize the name.

[MaineVoter2002]

The libs are already calling the leaker a "whistle-blower" on USENET & GOOGLE POLITICAL GROUPS

LOL

[AliVeritas]

Not surprised.

[Thebaddog]

Is he an insider fixer, or just your usual overachiever?

[Howlin]

They're as predictable as the sun coming up in the east.

[LurkingSince'98]

Ben Hecks,


that's it! Thanks.

my memory is half of what it used to be.

halfzhimers!

Regards,
Lurking'

[ScaniaBoy]

I don't know. But the information collected in the Able Danger program ended up with Zelikow and disappeared as if swallowed by a black hole.

Lots of info on the threads connected by keyword: Able Danger

[Freedom is eternally right]

Dr. Susan Rice is Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., where she is examining the national security implications of global poverty and inequality. She also works on related issues, including transnational security threats, failed states, post conflict peace-building, UN peace operations, and new strategies for corporate social responsibility investing. Dr. Rice served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 1997-2001. From 1995-1997, Dr. Rice was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council (NSC) and, from 1993-1995, was Director for International Organizations and Peacekeeping at the NSC. Prior to her White House tenure, Rice was a management consultant at McKinsey and Company, where she served clients in the oil and gas, steel, transportation, retail, public/non-governmental and pulp/paper sectors. Dr. Rice received a B.A. in History from Stanford University and her M.Phil. and D.Phil. (Ph.D)degrees in International Relations from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.

[Ben Hecks]

I've tried to use that proximity database search with mixed results but then again, my name isn't Anthony Shaffer.

[freema]

I am so far behind I could scream. But want to throw this out: Hubby's been gone the weekend and came in a while ago-says, "Watcha working on?" "CIA Coup", I replied. He responds (semi-seriously but joking),

"Oh noooooooooo, now they'll be coming to the house."

Star, this is a freaken viper's nest that's been stirred.

[AliVeritas]

The Leaker & Al-Shifa
http://thomasjoscelyn.blogspot.com/2006/04/leaker-al-shifa.html

[Crawdad]

I thought she confessed.

[AliVeritas]

She did... after failing lie detector tests.

[Suzy Quzy]

Soooo, was Susan Rice the Special Assistant to Joe Wilson or Mary McCarthy??

[AliVeritas]

Even though her first statement was I am innocent.

[AliVeritas]

Oh brother...

Did you see this:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060422/nysa009.html?.v=50