CIA officer fired after admitting leak, (Mary McCarthy named in this article)

Msnnbc.msn.com ^ | April 21, 2006 | Robert Windrem and Andrea Mitchell

[Grampa Dave]

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.

[Grampa Dave]

Absolutely!

Please post and document any info and data you have about this rat traitor and any other pertinent info.

Thanks.

[Patriot from Philly]

Andrea looked glum last night. Not that gleeful giggling she and her MSNBC buddies engage in when they talk about Libby going to jail for 30 years or Rove being indicted for an e-mail about his conversation with Fat Boy Dem Operative Hubby Cooper.

She looked like she just lost a great source, er, I mean friend.

[Solson]

What's putting the fear in them is that this was one of DOZENS of current leak investigations taking place. This one wasn't even referred for criminal prosecution. Others will be.

I believe Porter Goss will probably dig out more leakers in the next year. The old school press will be dismayed.

[MizSterious]

Compare Libby to Berger. Pretty amazing.

[darkwing104]

If she doesn't wind up in prison soon...Look for a book deal.

[AppyPappy]

Name mispalled in title. I can't believe peopl mispel stuf

[aft_lizard]

Might be one of several, see also the Plamegate story. Christians In Action went over to the dark side during the Xlinton years, now the purge has arrived, finally.>>>

I think I will watch Star Wars Ep 3 today to commemorate hopefully the beginning of a good purge of anti-American infiltrators, I will just pretend the empire is good for a change.

[JCEccles]

Admitting the leak? I thought she lied during her poly

They wired her up, questioned her, she lied, the machine pegged out, and they had a post-test interview with her. In the post-test interview she admitted that she had leaked the information.

That's the way a polygraph examination trypically works. The real value is in the post-test interview when the interviewee is confronted with the polygraph results and asked to explain them.

[MizSterious]

I'd look for a book deal anyway. She certainly has some friends in "the biz" of publishing things, and they'll want to help her out with her legal fees--just as they did with the Clintons.

[AliVeritas]

CIA VS. THE WHITE HOUSE: GOOD LEAKS OR BAD?
http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2006/04/22/cia-vs-the-white-house-good-leaks-or-bad/

The Clinton CIA comes Back To Bite Us
http://www.penraker.com/archives/004002.html

(Note that in both instances where reporters disclosed secret government programs, they won Pulitzers. Penraker)

Did Mary McCarthy Send Joe Wilson To Niger?
(ACE is the source on this)
Plame suggested his name; but a higher-up at the CIA actually sent him.

Who?

Now, McCarthy has links to general-turned-Rumsfeld-resignation-demander Anthony Zinni. And Sandy Berger. And, of course, Richard Clarke.

Would you believe she was also on the NSC during the same period, and with the same portfolio (Africa), as... JOE F'N' WILSON?
http://www.floppingaces.net/

It doesn't take a conspiracy theorist to see the vague outlines of a conspiracy here. We have a lot of like-minded people with the motive, means, and opportunity to subvert the democratically-elected foreign-policy official of this country when he dares to disrespect their superior enlightened liberal ideas.

FloppingAces says the name "Jay Rockefeller" seems to be popping up a lot, too. Wishful thinking, but hey, let's dare to dream.

Mary McCarthy was, at least at one time, the National Intelligence Offier for Warning. "Warning" is a branch of intelligence charged with, well, warning the President of potential threats-- collecting bits of data on a threat from all the different intelligence agencies and evaluating the level of the threat and presenting that information to the President.

Iraq was considered a threat in the early 2000's, of course.

It would seem that Mary McCarthy would have been one of the top CIA decision-makers as to what sort of person might be sent over to, say, Africa to investigate a particular threat-- the threat that Iraq was seeking uranium from Niger.

Now, that's how it seems to me. I don't know the NIO/W's exact responsibilities. But her testimony before the 9/11 commission describes the position as being about evaluating and analyzing threats specifically for consumption by the decision-making client (the President).

So: it seems likely she would be involved in investigating the threat of Iraq's nuclear program.


Did this lawbreaker and Kerry partisan ask Valerie Plame to ask Joe Wilson if he'd like to go on a secret public mission to Niger and come back with a report whitewashing any Iraq-Niger-uranium connection?

She would have known Joe Wilson. She knew his political leanings and that they agreed with her own. She would have been one of the people in the loop-- at the top of the loop, really -- for assessing the Iraq-Niger-uranium threat.

So-- was it Mary McCarthy who sent Wilson to Niger?

I'm sure the MSM will be right on top of that one.

More McCarthy: Berger Crony, Clinton Appointee, Witness At 9/11 Commission

And meanwhile, a double-secret probation agent for the real spy agency in America, the DNC.
http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2006/04/cia_leaker_mary.html

This woman was "Senior Director for Intelligence Programs on the National Security Council Staff. Prior to moving to the White House, Dr. McCarthy served on the National Intelligence Council as National Intelligence Officer for Warning, and Deputy NIO for Warning. " She served under both Clinton and Bush (the latter as a holdover).

She was not some minor flunky. She was a major officer at the CIA, holding a very high position in the National Intelligence Council, and all the while a strong political partisan.

She was one of the top apparatchik in the CIA's liberal-wing's war against the Bush Administration.

When Bush was warned away from divulging any information that would support the case for war in Iraq, this little partisan bitch was one of the people warning him he couldn't say anything in his own defense. And when he would give a CIA-approved narrow statement about Iraq, it was nasty little partisan hacks like her immediately leaking to the press that everything the President just said was a lie.

Except it wasn't a lie. It was the CIA consensus position on an issue. It's just that Kerry-supportin' Mary disagreed with it.

And why did the 9/11 Commission, despite powerful evidence, conclude with the fudged-up language that there was no "operational" partnership between Saddam and Al Qaeda? Because high CIA officials like McCarthy told the Democratic staffers she had their back and would leak like a sieve against any conclusion that allowed for some degree of cooperation between the two.

This is pretty big. The liberal cabal in the CIA just lost one of its top guns for subverting the government that nominally is in charge of it.

This, by the way, was a bit of a tip-off that she didn't really accept the whole "secret" part of the CIA's mission. From her 9/11 testimony:

The Congress, too, has a role in warning. Unlike other functions of democratic government, the conduct of intelligence is purposely-and with the consent of the public-carried out in secret, out of the view of public and without much public debate. Instead, Americans rely on their representatives in Congress to ensure that the intelligence function is performed, not only in a way that keeps us safe, but also in a way that is consistent with our democratic values.
Thus, the intelligence oversight committees have a heavy burden. Unlike other committees which regularly receive citizen input, and are assisted by the scrutiny of the public over "what the government is up to," the intelligence committees must depend on small staffs and input from the very agencies they are charged with overseeing.


And when Congress isn't holding Bush to account the way Mary McCarthy would like, she runs to the Washington Post to give the liberals in Congress the cover they need to go after him.

Dick Durbin wants to take on Bush over the prisons issues? Well, he can't, of course, at least not publicly. It's secret information, so Dick Durbin can't reveal it. He can argue about it behind closed doors, but what good does that do the liberals politically?

And so Mary McCarthy outs the information so that the Democrats can score their points without fear of being branded national-security leakers.

The game's up. You are now quite plainly out of your reckoning.


CIA Leaker Identified: Mary McCarthy

Yeah, she "admitted" leaking the information. After flunking a lie detector test in which she lied.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12423825/

And what's this?

McCarthy, Mary O
10/5/2004
$5,000.00
Bethesda, MD 20817
Center for Strategic & International [Contribution]
OHIO DEMOCRATIC PARTY

1,512 . Mccarthy, Mary O
3/14/2004
$2,000.00
Bethesda, MD 20817
U.S. Government/Analyst [Contribution]
JOHN KERRY FOR PRESIDENT, INC.


I don't know for a fact that this is the same Mary McCarthy, but her location (just outside of DC) and her occupation (U.S. Government/Analyst-- totally CIA) do seem to match up.

Does it matter she's a big-money donor to Kerry and the Democrats?

Well, let's ask the question the opposite way. If she was caught leaking secret information that damaged a Clinton Administration, and was a big donor to Jeb Bush and the Ohio State Republicans, do you think the MSM would note that in passing?

The CIA is politicized, and some liberals have lost their goddamned minds. There is no limit any longer to what they are willing to do to subvert the current democratically elected government and claw their way back to power.


To find McCarthy in the list of political donors, go here, chose the 2002-2006 election cycles, enter "McCarthy," and then scan down for "Mary." You can't find her if you just type in "Mary McCarthy." Not sure why.

And I also can't post the link to the search results. You just have to go there and do the search yourself.

Here's one FEC disclosure report. The image for the Kerry donation isn't scanned yet, it seems.


Confirmed by Allah: A "Michael McCarthy," listed as her husband in the article, also lives in Bethesda with the same zip code, and he too donated to Kerry in 2004.

I looked for this at the site I was on for confirmation, but didn't find a Michael with a Bethesda address. I guess I just missed it, though, because a second check yields:

,623 . Mccarthy, Michael J
3/14/2004 $2,000.00
Bethesda, MD 20817
Michael Mccarthy Associates/Landsca [Contribution]
JOHN KERRY FOR PRESIDENT INC [View Image]

1,624 . MCCARTHY, MICHAEL J
3/2/2004 $500.00
BETHESDA, MD 20817
MCCARTHY ASSOC [Contribution]
MIKULSKI FOR SENATE COMMITTEE


John "Jenjis Khan" Kerry. Babs Mikulski.

So, you know, I just can't wait until we're all assured that these are political centrists who "vote Democrat sometimes, Republican other times" and that Mary McCarthy illegally leaked classified information only out of a sense of "higher patriotism."

Be back with more later... on the milblogger conference, if anyone's interested:

http://militarywebcom.org/milblogs06
Sign up and click AED Washington for A/Video.
Spread the word. Lt. Smash, Greyhawk and a lot of the milbloggers are speaking as well as family of our fine military. The main point is getting the truth out.

[Grampa Dave]

"Let the American people ponder on the standards of Pulitzer prizes and journalism when the objective facts are that the CIA source (leaker) damaged national security. This McCarthy has been outright fired and may be prosecuted for actions to which she admitted and which are unambiguously illegal."

The phoney baloney Pulitzer prizes were award to any pseudo rat reporter who came up with a great lie about GW and got it published, and then had the rats carry it for weeks.

"And contrast Scooter Libby who was not only not guilty of leaking (only inconsistent testimony which is either lying or quite plausibly imperfect recollection), not only that, but also the underlying situation in no sense hurt national security."

Wouldn't it be great to see a lot of Fitzy's press witnesses/editors/publishers caught in this mess as it unfolds.

[mewzilla]

Then they sure phrased it innocuously, didn't they? Instead of stating that she lied about being the leaker.

[darth]

Before the Clinton Admin left office they put a lot of appointees into civil service positions so that they could continue dim policies without being fired. The Fifth Column has infiltrated the Bush Admin.

[Grampa Dave]

She might have a little problem writing this books unless she has a real "Ghost Writer"!

[Wristpin]

I saw on Fox today that there was a referral to the Justice Department on this one. My gut tells me there is a big Dem conspiracy in all this. The Rockefeller memo, the VIPS, the Generals are all part of the DNC strategy for the past couple of years.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks, APPY.

"Name mispalled in title. I can't believe peopl mispel stuf!"

You got me. I can't spel stuf somtime. My mispalling of McCarthy is appaaauling.

[mewzilla]

The leaked, then she lied about it. So much for principle, eh, McCarthy?

[Irish Eyes]

Thanks Grampa Dave for keeping this story on top. Read the entire thread lastnight..WOW. I am waiting for the MSM to report on this 24/7.

[MamaLucci]

Happily, MSNBC is reporting that she is under investigation. We shall see.

[Grampa Dave]

Wow! Thank you for this incredible documentation about this Rat Traitor B$tch.