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Mary McCarthy, who was fired Thursday from the CIA.
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Posted on 04/21/2006 4:33:43 PM PDT by dennisw
WASHINGTON - 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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I'm so glad, with their hounding of the Administration over the outting (cough) of Valerie Plame that the MSM agrees that leaking to the press is such a bad thing. (cough again)
Get a rope
A leak about a leak??
This unbelievable! Betray your country and be rewarded with a Pulitzer! There had better be criminal charges brought.
I'm shocked.
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Whole lotta leaking goin' on.
I wonder if leaking about a firing is illegal as is leaking classified info?
Lesbian lover?
One is a start.
This will not bode well.
Media Spin follows:
She leaked....Rove leaked....Libby leaked.
She got fired.
Oh when, oh when will they fire Rove.
Be careful what you wish for. It may satisfy you but open up a whole can of MSM whoopass.
Prosecute the traitor.
Good question.. this leak didn't endanger any of our people..
See BS and Bob Scheiffer were indignant she had been fired and there might be charges pending against her and a ***GASP*** Pulitzer Prize winner who published the leak.
Sting them all up. Give them the needle or the chair.
They can't be brought up on treason charges fast enough.
Jim Angel said that she testified before the 9/11 commission.
See BS and Bob Scheiffer were indignant she had been fired and there might be charges pending against her and a ***GASP*** Pulitzer Prize winner who published the leak.
Sting them all up. Give them the needle or the chair.
They can't be brought up on treason charges fast enough.
It's about frickin time people started getting canned hung for leaking state secrets
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