CIA LEAKER FIRED
By Michelle Malkin · April 21, 2006 03:50 PM
Fox News has the story.
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Update: NBC identifies the leaker as Mary McCarthy...
In a rare occurrence, the CIA fired an officer who acknowledged giving classified information to a reporter, NBC News learned Friday.
The officer flunked a polygraph exam before being fired on Thursday and is now under investigation by the Justice Department, NBC has learned.
Intelligence sources tell NBC News the accused officer, Mary McCarthy, worked in the CIA's inspector general's office and had worked for the National Security Council under the Clinton and and George W. Bush administrations.
The leak pertained to stories on the CIA’s rumored secret prisons in Eastern Europe, sources told NBC. The information was allegedly provided to Dana Priest of the Washington Post, who wrote about CIA prisons in November and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize on Monday for her reporting.
Sources said the CIA believes McCarthy had more than a dozen unauthorized contacts with Priest. Information about subjects other than the prisons may have been leaked as well.
The sources spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the firing.
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The Wayback Machine: BERGER APPOINTS MCCARTHY SPECIAL ASSISTANT FOR INTELLIGENCE
USIS ^ | 6/17/98 | Press Release
Posted on 04/21/2006 10:02:23 PM EDT by ricks_place
Washington -- National Security Advisor Samuel R. Berger announced June 16 the appointment of Mary O'Neil McCarthy as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Intelligence Programs.
(Excerpt) Read more at fas.org ...
Is that right? Mary McCarthy and Joe Wilson served on the National Security Council at the same time...and both with Africa portfolios?!
Pass the popcorn
Cause it sounds like they've got a bunch of stuff on Mary