"Hence, there's now some speculation elsewhere on the Internet that the "secret prisons" story originially began inside the CIA in an effort to identify leakers. McCarthy took the bait and leaked this false story to Dana Priest of the WashPost.
Which means that Priest's Pulitzer Prize is also completely bogus"
That was one of my first thoughts. Disinformation used to detect traitors. Is there a procedure in place to revoke a Pulitzer if the the "news story" is subsequently found to be false?
This was in the plot of a "24" season ~ however the FOX put the secret underground prison in a public park in Los Angeles, not Europe.
The CIA guys weren't even terribly original ~ amazingly this Mary McCarthy seems to not be a "24" fan ~ more a librarian/spy/political activist sort of person than a "spook".
More recently there's the story about the Iranian atom bomb(s). That one came out of "24" also!
At one point President Palmer's secret plan to deal with this Iraian bomb was to nuke somewhere in the Middle-East. Jack Bauer talked him out of it by torturing Marwan's kid.
Roughly that sort of story.
Now I'm wondering who else is going to be "outed" at the CIA and in the press.
Hey, does the fansite for "24" carry a complete brief on each season's stories?