Posted on 04/22/2006 5:00:17 AM PDT by libstripper
WASHINGTON — The CIA has fired a senior officer for leaking classified information to the media, including material for Pulitzer Prize-winning stories in The Washington Post that said the agency maintained a secret network of prisons overseas for high-ranking terrorism suspects.
The termination, announced Friday, marks the latest in a series of high-profile crackdowns on spy agency and Bush administration officials accused of unauthorized disclosures of classified information.
The CIA would not identify the fired officer, citing Privacy Act protections.
But current and former intelligence officials identified her as Mary McCarthy, a former White House aide who until this week held a senior position in the CIA's Inspector General's Office.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
That, or maybe a little canary bait.
"Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. (who) said people who provide citizens the information they need to hold their government accountable should not 'come to harm for that.'"
__________________________________________________________OOK,then let's have harm come to him. As the editor, he approved the story.
Walter Durranty of the NYT won a Pulitzer Prize for parroting Joesph Stalin's propaganda. He ignored the tens of millions of people Uncle Joe sent to the gulags to die in misery to tell the world that the Soviet Union was a peaceful worker's paradise.
To this day, the NYT won't admit that Durranty's "reporting" was all lies, and they proudly display Durranty's Pulitzer.
It seems to me that it's too early to say with any confidence that Mary McCarthy was trapped by a false story fed to her about the East European prisons.
What we have, so far, is a statement from the Euros that they can't confirm the existence of such prisons. But, let's face it, what else can they say without completely blowing up the Atlantic alliance? They vented their anti-Americanism by whining and screaming in the European media. The entire left has been fed the propaganda line, and they all know about it. But do European governments and intelligence agencies really want to risk a formal break with the United States by taking official notice?
In other words, it's still possible that they "couldn't confirm it" because, much as they may personally hate the U.S., they didn't WANT to confirm it officially and take the consequences. It would be incredibly damaging, and more so to Europe than to us.
Sweet little Mary may have provided "Presidential services" when Monica was not available.
"What does this make, 2 dozed lies told by the Establishment Media in just the last 2. 5 years?"
You do the math:
Plamegate
CIA secret European prisons
Gunatanamo abuse
Abu Ghraib photos
Katrina federal rescue efforts
Intelligence leaks
Abramoff scandal
9/11 was an inside job
Cheney-shotgun-gate
There-were-no-WMDs-gate
Purposely-haven't-killed-bin-Laden-gate?
White phosporus and depleted uranium munitions violating the Geneva convention
Cheney still receiving Halliburton dividends
They-promised-to-leave-if-bush won-but- didnt-gate
Mysterious-bump-under-the-jacket at the Kerry debate being a radio transmitter.
Iraq war was "illegal"
Rathergate
Neocons poisoned the Arafart
Republican SUV's caused Katrina et al.
Koran abuse at Gitmo
US submarines created the Tsunami
Preparing to wage intergalactic war
Bush killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi babies.
Bush Bombed the Levys-gate
The Economy is Awful-gate
Bush made zillions in EnronGate.
Not enough troops in Iraq
US military burning dead Taliban fighters
'100,000 daed in Iraq'
Body Armor -Gate
Bush is a Leaker -Gate
Junta-Gate (the 6 Generals)
Bush-Stayed-On-Vacation-While-New-Orlean s-Suffered-gate
Jeb-gate
"Outsourcing" Tora Bora
Missing weapons at the QaQaa site
Bombing Shiite Mosques
Shooting up Guilianna Sgrena's getaway car with tanks
Bush broke the law with wire taps
Bush is drinking again
It's all about oil
There is no connection between Saddam Hussein and terrorists
Bush dodged service in Vietnam gate.
Wreathgate
Plastic Turkey-gate!
Bush's continued drinking/cocain use
Bush knew about steroids while owner of the Texas Rangers
Stolen elections
Florida minorities not permitted to vote in 2000
White House press corp credentials gate
Pillaging of the Baghdad museum - gate
Saddam's head-lice inspection gate
Stem Cells will save humanity! gate
Chimpy McFlightsuit "Mission Accomplished" USS Lincoln aircraft carrier "debacle".
Pretzel-gate
GOP Schiavo memo-gate
Submarines-sonar-killing-the-whales-gate
Won't meet the ditch witch at the...gate
Falling off a bicycle and getting bandaid on the face gate!
Holding old half dead saudi koranimal hand and helping him out of the car gate!
DeadPeopleGate
Secretly plotting to enforce a Military Draft gate
NASA releasing the embarrassing photos of John Kerry crawling on all fours in the cleanroom suit - gate.
Hacked into DNC computers gate
Supreme Court nominees are only White Men-gate.
Bush referred to the WOT as a crusade-gate
KillerMilitaryDolphinsLooseDuringKatrina -Gate
ClimateGate
No "W"s missing from keyboards gate
Dissed the World's Most Powerful Communist -Gate.
Bounced the She-rag from the State of Union speech
Bush wastes too much time exercising gate
Reading to kindergartners too long gate
Bush can't pronounce "nuclear"-gate
Fines from Religious Zealots in the FCC
Chavez-providing-Indians-with-poisened
-arrows-due-to-Chimpy-McHitler-gate
Gates gate
Libby gate
Rove was the leak gate
Bush is homosexual
Bush won't address NAACP audience
Refusal to close the illegal alien gate?
Refusal to party in DC gate
Refusal to stay up beyond 9pm gate
Refusal to take away his Twins' ciggies & drinks gate
First Inauguration ballroom strap accident gate
Firing the White House chef gate
Fumigating the Oval Office gate
Redecorating the Oval Office gate
Revamping the White House Intern program gate
Bush and Cheney met with the 9-11 Commission together, Gate.
Miers Supreme Court nomination gate
Cheney-the-shooter gate
Note: My thanks to a friend at LGF.
Unmask an internal CIA spy.
Totally discredit a Pulitzer Prize Winning Story
Discredit a Pulitzer Prize Winner
Get Joe Wilson's new girlfriend fired from the CIA.
Discredit Joe Wilson.
Discredit Valerie Plame.
Discredit the Washington Post.
Discredit the Pulitzer selection committee.
Ensure the release by the EU investigators of the report that there was NO EVIDENCE for the phoney secret underground prisons story.
Discredit Patrick J. Fitzgerald.
Etc.
And all the rest.
This guy or gal, or team, needs a promotion. Time for Porter Goss to moxie up the bucks.
Doesn't matter. Elements of the story may of been true but the story itself about "Secret CIA prisions in Europe" is a lie. The EU announced there is ZERO evidence to back up this story. That this line or that line in the story is accurate does not excuse the incredibly sloppy "Journalism" that was put into this "Pulitzer Price winning story". The message in the story is a LIE, that some facts were correct does NOT excuse the sloppy journalism nor the hype and spin put on the story by the Junk Media.
simply amazing. I have always wondered if it were possible to go back and make such a list. I am thrilled that someone did. Adding.....
Dubai gate
SBVT gate
The story, as false as it might be, has done great harm to the US's reputation and now that the story is out there, there is no way to take it back. It will forever be part of left-wing lore and myth.
Good point. I would hope that we wouldn't concoct a story that would give so much more ammunition to our enemies (though I have no problem with secret prisons or torturing terrorists). The Europeans would love to flay us with just such a charge.
What do you mean?
She's getting white washed in the HYT
http://tinyurl.com/r7bps
The money line:
"It looks to me like Mary is being used as a sacrificial lamb," said Larry Johnson, a former C.I.A. officer who worked for Ms. McCarthy in the agency's Latin America section.
Larry Johnson.....He's connected to nice Ms. Wilson somehow isn't he??
Below is a link to a great bit of detective work by Ali Veritas on McTraitor.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1619501/posts?page=30#30
Great list! But I didn't see these -
Bush is doing nothing while tens of millions will die from bird flu Gate.
We hate the music Bush has on the iPod the twins gave him Gate.
Bush and Lance Armstrong like to ride bikes together and that drove Cheryl Crow away Gate.
Tax cuts for the rich.
I wouldn't be surprised if they were quite cozy.
This from Freeper Timeout (I hope he doesn't mind!) on another thread:
I just noted that these people also have ties to Africa and European companies. God only knows how deep this goes----, but the question is, is it going to get dug up???
I was struck by the same thing: common Africa connections:
Mary McCarthy: ... began her government service as an analyst, then manager, in CIA's Directorate of Intelligence, holding positions in both African and Latin American analysis. [I think this was 1984 to 1991].
1991 to 2001: National Security Council
Joe Wilson: U.S. Ambassador to the [African ]Gabonese Republic 1992 to 1995...
Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council from June 1997 until July 1998
Am I reading this right?! They served on the NSC together with the same portfolio (Africa)?! And she was the CIA's Africa analyst at the time ole Joe was down there?!
I mean the major papers are carrying it. And if they're carrying it, then it's been "OK'd" to talk about.
This is a story that could be construed to vindicate the administration of all the absurd allegations of leaks the left has been stuffing down the world's throat. Further, it exposes a leftwing operative - one of their own - as a blatant traitor. Why would they push it? They never confess to anything; they would try to bury this story unless they saw a way discredit the administration somehow.
Sounds like a *sting op* going on, C. McCarthy will probably get a wrist-slap, and a nice, fat CIA/ US Taxpayer retirement with lot of bennies. She deserves prison and no retirement etc.
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