Posted on 04/22/2006 12:03:40 PM PDT by Uncledave
Who is Mary McCarthy?
Well, as of this morning (Saturday) most of the big media don't care. They're fixated with the weather and gas prices — and anything else that will divert the public's attention from the stunning revelation that a Sandy Berger crony has apparently been leaking top-secret information from her high post at the CIA. The media will continue to downplay this story as they cover-up their own role in exposing our nation's secrets, including the supposed existence of CIA prisons in Europe. She'll be called a "whistleblower" and praised as some kind of patriot (a patriot, in the eyes of the media, is anybody who undermines this administration and the war effort by leaking national security secrets to them). They will downplay that McCarthy was a Clintonoid who somehow managed to land a top post at the CIA, ultimately winding up in the CIA's Inspector General's Office, from where she could monitor CIA internal investigations of, well, leaks, among other things.
The news spin, to the extent attention is being paid to this by the big media outlets, is that McCarthy's firing is unprecedented! Or it's Bush's fault! In one of the most absurd comments by any newsman anywhere, Newsbusters.org notes that Bob Schieffer of CBS Evening News asserted that “it is no secret that the current administration does not like its people hanging out with news reporters without permission” and he described the firing as “a first — a dubious first, to be sure.” Here. Is this guy for real?
If she leaked she must be charged. I wonder what Schieffer would say then? I suppose he would urge that she receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. After all, the Washington Post's Dana Priest, who apparently served as McCarthy's stenographer, was just awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
I must say, however, that the media's sickening hypocrisy knows no bounds. They came to the defense of Joe Wilson and his wife, Valerie Plame, who worked behind-the-scenes to get her husband that “fact-finding” trip to Niger. They demanded an investigation into who “leaked” Plame’s identity to Bob Novak — which ensnared their own reporters. They hoped they would critically wound the president, and they failed. Clearly Plame was not undercover and the revelation of her identity was not a crime. Lewis Libby now stands accused of lying about a crime that never occurred and the media think that’s a good thing.
Now comes Mary McCarthy, who apparently leaked real classified national-security secrets and the media largely dismiss it or defend it. They have no curiosity about McCarthy, the extent of her leaks, to whom she leaked (beyond Priest, did she leak to other reporters, members of Congress, other governments?), how she secured top security posts, and her ties to the Clinton administration. Surely there is every reason the government should pursue this investigation at least as vigorously as the Plame matter has been pursued. Dana Priest, among others, should have her day before a grand jury.
And watch the congressional Democrats follow the media’s lead. Long ago they put party and power above victory in this war. McCarthy’s ties to Clinton threaten to take attention from their unrelenting attack on the Bush administration and their claims of incompetence in the management of the war, which they see as their ticket to majority status in 2006.
Putting that aside, the discovery of McCarthy does make you wonder how many more of her ilk have squirreled themselves into the bureaucracy, from where they seek to undermine the country.
It's because of the old rule that if you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes FACT...
Well, the lies have been flying for 4 years now, and it just keeps getting worse. You can shout until you're blue to many of these folks, and they simply won't believe because they saw it in a movie, so it's got to be true......
Lies have been flying around for a heck of a lot longer than that.
And a very young Timothy Dalton. Now that you mention it adding backstabbing boys to Woolf along with a dash of noir neutralizing light heartedness gives you Lion. LOL.
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That's very interesting that you use that tag.
BUMP!
Late to the party, but thanks for the ping Fudd! Hope we can get this out for all to see and ponder!!
I've been wondering about this for ages and to see that question in print is chilling.
There has been questioning in different threads as to who the puppetmaster in the shadows is. I am willing to bet that it is someone whose name we have never heard. After all, who ever heard of this traitor before this weekend?
"Remember that Dana Priest's husband represents Valarie plame's husband for speaking tours. Can you picture this friendly circle and the havoc they can and do sow."
Is this common knowledge??
He DOES?
To quote Ray Romano's dad-- "HOLY CRAP!"
Isn't it illegal to profit from the commission of a crime?
I've always believed that to be so, but I have seen just the opposite happen -- especially during and since the Clinton Administration. I think Mary McCarthy should be held accountable for her actions and punished more seriously than losing her job. She can always get another job with a liberal think tank. Until people learn there are consequences for illegal behavior, we will just get more of it IMHO.
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