[samantha]

I believe they needed an air tight case and they had to set up the trap so that they would catch the most serious offender and make them make a plea deal. She would not look very good in Prison Stripes, it will add 10 lbs.

[Chgogal]

Samantha, you may be right. I just read this on Captain's Quarters and I have to agree. The timing of the European news release and the CIA termination could not be more interesting. Either the Euros didn't look too deep or.....?

"A Sting Operation?
Rick Moran at Right Wing Nuthouse wonders if the story on CIA detention centers might not have been a sting operation to unmask leakers at Langley. The possibility comes up because on the same day that the CIA terminated Mary McCarthy for her communications to the press, the New York Times reports that European investigators cannot find any evidence that the detention centers ever existed:"

http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/006809.php

The commentary ends like this, "We may never know if the entire story about detention centers turned out to be a smoke screen intended to reveal a leak. We certainly have no evidence beyond the McCarthy leak and Priest's story. If it does turn out to be nothing more than misinformation for a leak probe, the Washington Post and the Pulitzer Committee will look very foolish indeed."

Will this be another nail in MSM's coffin? One can only hope.