CIA Leak, Mary McCarthy Link Roundup

various FR links & quotes | 04-23-06 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

[backhoe]

The original mega-thread:

CIA Fires Officer For Leaking Classified Information to Media

I think this is as big as rathergate.   Dana Priest's Pulitzer has just turned to dust. Not only that,  the Pulitzer's are finally dust themselves...it is up to us and others to find out, because  the Drive-By Media will ignore the story.

Let's Play Connect the Dots

Let’s connect some dots in the Mary McCarthy CIA leak tale, shall we? (Hat tip: WordWarp).

Mary McCarthy leaks the secret CIA prisons story to Dana Priest, in what may have been a sting operation.

Mary McCarthy and Joe Wilson served at the NSC together at the same time, both with African portfolios.

Does Dana Priest’s Husband Get Joe Wilson Media Gigs?

Did Mary McCarthy Send Joe Wilson To Niger?

 Let's not forget that Mary McCarthy was appointed by ol' docs-in-socks himself, Sandy Berger.

In From the Cold Scroll down and read how high Mary McCarthy really *was*

I found an old site in which a Charles Allen spoke at Harvard all about Open Source intelligence and in it he mentioned Mary McCarthy and her views that were similar to his here.

Just go to this site. It's bigger than you think.

 Read this.

Michelle Malkin has a little piece on this on her blog but also she links to this piece from NRO with has more information on 'who is Mary McCarthy?' and her connections to Sandy "Sox" Berger.

http://levin.nationa...

Here's the piece from Michelle Malkin's blog which also speculates on whether or not Mary McCarthy was the one who got Joe Wilson the Niger trip:

http://michellemalki...

Look what I found on the web while surfing through links provided to other links: A PR announcement that Sandy Berger appointed Mary McCarthy:

http://www.fas.org/i...

05:55 PM PDT | link: 180 comments

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realwest  4/22/2006 07:14PM PDT

 

So lemme see if I have this straight so far:
We have Mary Mcarthy who was appointed by Clinton
We have Sandy Berger who was appointed by Clinton
We have the real Joe Wilson, who was appointed to some African nation and then Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council by Clinton
We have Valerie Plame Joe Wilson's wife, who joined the CIA while Clinton was president
and we have Dana Priestly who got her information from the aforesaid Mary Mcarthy,
and we have William Goodfellow, husband of Dana Priestly who gets Joe Wilson speaking engagements.
Tom Clancy eat your heart out.

 

 

http://powerlineblog.com/archives/013834.php

Selective Leaking

Tom Joscelyn brilliantly lays out a prior instance in which CIA agent Mary McCarthy, the leaker just fired from the CIA, entered the public record: her involvement in the bombing of al-Shifa, one of the targets in Sudan that the Clinton adminstration attacked in 1998.

http://www.instapundit.com/

TOM MAGUIRE: "The NY Times seems to think the political contributions of the sacked CIA officer are significant, but their investigative skills are apparently a bit rusty, since they are about $7,500 light in their reporting."

UPDATE: Lots of bloggers are jumping on this story: More here, here, and a big roundup here.

I'm pretty sure I know what the talk-radio folks will be talking about next week.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Still more here.

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/005048.htm

MARY MCCARTHY AND JOE WILSON?

By Michelle Malkin   ·   April 22, 2006 01:19 PM

Ace of Spades asks:

Did Mary McCarthy Approve Joe Wilson's Trip to Niger?

Curt at Flopping Aces points to a F/R commenter, Timeout, noting some interesting portfolio overlap:

Mark Levin weighs in.

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Previous:

CIA leaker fired

A Pulitzer for a False Story

Washington Post journalist Dana Priest won a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on the “CIA secret prisons” story; in this interview the “prisons” are described as “gulags” and Priest seems to have no problem with it: Dana Priest on secret gulags, CIA and war. (Hat tip: Doss.)

Now that an EU investigation has found no evidence of illegal CIA action, will her Pulitzer be revoked—since the story for which it was awarded was false?

Don’t hold your breath.

But this time the McCarthy is waving a list of known... patriots.

link: 107 comments

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1619050/posts?page=1815#1815...re: Wm. Goodfellow's CIP, VERY deeply involved in far-left anti_Iraq War activism:

 http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=14893

Dana Priest’s Husband Gets Joe Wilson Media Gigs--Pulitzer Prize winning Dana Priest is married to William Goodfellow. William Goodfellow is the Executive Director of the the Center for International Policy (CIP).

Schieffer Denounces “Dubious First” Firing of (CIA) Leaker (Mary McCarthy's picture)

'Post' Editor Hits 'Criminalization' of Leaks to Media Len Downie

Mary McCarthy Replaced Rand Beers, The Kerry Advisor (The Big Lib Conspiracy)

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2006/04/leaks_and_the_l.html

Leaks and the Leakers that Leak them

CIA FIRES OFFICER  MARY McCARTHY OVER ALLEGED LEAK

This is an egregious crime. It was operational, not just classified info. She put lives in danger, c**t. She disclosed top secret information. Jail time is too kind. Think about it.

Piece of advise for the Bushies...............FIRE ANY ONE THAT WORKED UNDER THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION, I mean really.

Strata-sphere has the straight dope here, an incredible post actually.
The latest fired CIA employee is Mary McCarthy, (one of many to come, I understand, apparently the Department of Justice said they have DOZENS of leak investigations ongoing);

Until July 2001, she served as special assistant to the president and senior director for intelligence programs on the National Security Council (NSC) Staff, under both Presidents Clinton and Bush. More here hat tip x-dhimmi

Over at Lucianne, THE SECRET WAR AGAINST PRESIDENT BUSH

Excellent complete overview over at Flopping Aces here, and important read;

... Dana Priest, who also won the George Polk Award and a prize from the Overseas Press Club this week for her articles, declined to comment Friday.  She apparently came to the defense of Richard Clarke once. If she is one in the same, this person has betrayed a lot of people with her actions.  More here...and Flopping Aces points out, lest we not forget what Porter Goss said;

Porter Goss told the Senate that these leaks had damaged our intelligence gathering capability and in so doing our national security:

  Clear And Present found this nugget:   Comments (2)

Wilsongate: Motive, Means, and Opportunity

From my files:

Wilson (as Ambassador to Gabon) had/has connections to the Gabon Chief of State, Omar Bongo, who was the chief African ally of the French oil company TotalFinaElf, a major beneficiary of the Oil-for-Food bribes. Prior to the Iraq War, they had a contract with Saddam's regime worth an estimated 12.5 to 27.0 billion barrels of oil reserves. Also he had connections via the Middle East Institute and Rock Creek, both of which are Saudi controlled.

Wilson's wife Jacqueline was also apparently a lobbyist for Bongo and it seems Wilson was pretty chummy with Saddam's weapons buyer, having dinner with him on the eve that Kuwait was invaded in 1990. She is now an advisor to Bongo, her picture from a 2005 conference can be found here That makes it very clear that there are connections to oil-for-food. No wonder Wilson can afford his lifestyle.

Source: Posts 21 and 22

The French Connection

What Wilson Didn’t Say About Africa

Cannistraro worked directly with Clarridge during Iran Contra

73 posted on 11/22/2005 11:27:52 AM EST by ravingnutter

I have posted all the links that my eyes would let me so we can have a running list. Please feel free to add any others that you come across in the comments section.
http://chickenhawkexpress.blogspot.com/2006/04/leakers-and-liars-massive-amount-of.html

Mary McCarthy Links:
Center for Law and Security
9/11 Commission Testimony
Intelligence officials warn of security risks
Free Republic -Fired CIA Leaker Gave To Kerry And The DNC
Captains Quarters Blog -A Sting Operation?
OSS CEO Praises Mary McCarthy, Calls for Censure of DNI & DCI
Strata-Sphere Blog - CIA Leaker Leaked Multiple Times
Free Republic - Schieffer Denounces “Dubious First” Firing of (CIA) Leaker (Mary McCarthy's picture)
Details, Details
The Firing of Mary McCarthy by Larry Johnson
RightWinged.com - CIA Officer Fired: Clinton's Senior Director Of Intel Programs, Kerry Supporter
Lawhawk blog -Cronyism at the CIA?
Global Security - Statement of Mary O. McCarthy before the National Commission Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
Mary McCarthy - CSIS
CIA Organizational Chart
Knight Center for Specialized Journalism Seminar Fellowships -Seminar for Editorial Writers topic -Who is Winning the War on Terror?
Flopping Aces - The Democrat Mole in the CIA is Fired
NeverYetMelted Blog -Who is Mary O. McCarthy?
NYT - Colleagues Say C.I.A. Analyst Played by Rules
Mark Levin - Who is Mary McCarthy?
Ace of Spades HQ - Did Mary McCarthy Send Joe Wilson To Niger?

Dana Priest Info
Bio
Covert Intelligence
Ace of Spades HQ - Dana Priest - High Paid Stenographer
Whose Side Is the Post On? Or Better Yet, Whose Side is the CIA on
Powerline Blog - Dana Priest's Global Show N-Tell

William Goodfellow Info
Washington Peace Center Activist Guide
CIP
Latin America Working Group – William Goodfellow

MISC
Michigan News -Senators Rockefeller and Durbin May Take Polygraph Tests
John Gibson - The Secret War Against President Bush
Sweetness-Light - Only Leak to Help our Enemies
NeverYetMelted - VIPS - Politics, The Plame Game, War on Terror, CIA Leaks
The New American -Security Risk for CIA
Fox News - Ex CIA Accuse Bush of Manipulating Iraq Evidence
Free Republic - More Wilson Meltdown (Lying Larry Johnson from VIPS Sounds Worried)
All Things Beautiful Blog -Regaining Control of the White House Press Room
Multiple Articles
Insight on the News - The Smear Campaign; Left-wingers have poured money into Bush-hating "527" groups, which straddle a fine line in an all-out effort to defeat the president
Democracy Now - NYT Exposes Cheney's Role in CIA Leak: Cheney Identifies Wilson's Wife as CIA Operative

NIGERGATE: BUSH DIDN’T LIE TO THE AMERICANS REGARDING URANIUM FROM AFRICA

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Reference:

The Uranium Files- Iraq, Mr. Bush... and more-

Yes, Down My Pants. Oh, Like You Haven't? The Sordid Sandburglar Story

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The Secret War Against President Bush (John Gibson)

 

Who is Mary McCarthy? [The Great One, Mark Levin, weighs in...]--Well, as of this morning (Saturday) most of the drive-by 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 blogs are all over it. See Ace of Spades HQ and follow the links. The bloggers are reporting that the WaPo is carrying a story in Sunday's edition indicating that the investigation by the FBI is widespread, and that Rockefeller and Durbin and their staffs will be asked to take polygraphs, and that reporters who published the leaks may be subject to prosecution.

 

Rockefeller, Durbin To Take Polygraphs! [The REAL "Culture of Corruption"...!]

 

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

Related links:

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

 

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/ 

 

See Captain's Quarters here:

April 22, 2006
A Sting Operation?

 CIA Leaker Leaked Multiple Times

 hattips: AliVeritas , Ernest_at_the_Beach

Fired CIA Leaker Gave To Kerry And The DNC

 EU Says No Evidence Against CIA

 

http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/003872.html

Mary McCarthy Identified As CIA Leaker

The identity of the CIA leaker fired for passing classified information to Washington Post writer Dana Priest has been revealed.

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 sleuthing has begun ;

The report of the 9/11 Commission notes that the National Security staff reviewed the intelligence in April 2000 and concluded that the CIA's assessment of its intelligence on bin Laden and al-Shifa had been valid; the memo to Clinton on this was cosigned by Richard Clarke and Mary McCarthy, the NSC senior director for intelligence programs, who opposed the bombing of al-Shifa in 1998

Ace has pulled up the campaign contributions. No surprises there.

Posted by Kate at 01:21 AM | Comments (3)  Here's a link to the campaign donations:  CIA leaker a big Democratic donor.

 

The Wayback Machine 6/17/98: BERGER APPOINTS MCCARTHY SPECIAL ASSISTANT FOR INTELLIGENCE--

Total for this search: $7,900

Contributor	Occupation	Date	Amount	Recipient
MCCARTHY, MARY BETHESDA,MD 20817	US GOVERNMENT/ANALYST	10/29/2004	$500	DNC Services Corp
MCCARTHY, MARY BETHESDA,MD 20817	U.S. GOVERNMENT/CIVAL SERVANT	11/1/2002	$200	Andreasen, Steven Peter
MCCARTHY, MARY J BETHESDA,MD 20816	RETIRED/RETIRED	7/16/2002	$200	Morella, Connie
MCCARTHY, MARY O BETHESDA,MD 20817	CENTER FOR STRATEGIC & INTERNATIONA	10/5/2004	$5,000	Democratic Party of Ohio
MCCARTHY, MARY O BETHESDA,MD 20817	U.S. GOVERNMENT/ANALYST	3/14/2004	$2,000	Kerry, John

Mary O. McCarthy - Visiting Fellow, International Security Program--CSIS pulled McClarty's "Expert" bio off their web site!! That was swift; CSIS must hit FR for their news! But I did find some cache.

http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2006/04/war-media-and-politics.html

War, media and politics

One of today's big news items is the dismissal of a person at Central Intelligence for leaking classified material to Washington Post Pulitzer Prize winner Dana Priest. Pajamas Media has a really big blog roundup. Some of the choice items.

Captain’s Quarters: Plugging the Leak says: In From the Cold comments:  Strata-sphere  Big Lizard: Story on the leaker leaked to the press -- That's how ingrained the practice is. You have to leak about the leak.  22 comments links to this post

Interesting to see who the CIA leaker is.

Related links:

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

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/ 

See Captain's Quarters here:

April 22, 2006
A Sting Operation?

 CIA Leaker Leaked Multiple Times

 hattips: AliVeritas , Ernest_at_the_Beach

Fired CIA Leaker Gave To Kerry And The DNC

 EU Says No Evidence Against CIA

http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/003872.html

Mary McCarthy Identified As CIA Leaker

The identity of the CIA leaker fired for passing classified information to Washington Post writer Dana Priest has been revealed.

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 sleuthing has begun ;

The report of the 9/11 Commission notes that the National Security staff reviewed the intelligence in April 2000 and concluded that the CIA's assessment of its intelligence on bin Laden and al-Shifa had been valid; the memo to Clinton on this was cosigned by Richard Clarke and Mary McCarthy, the NSC senior director for intelligence programs, who opposed the bombing of al-Shifa in 1998

Ace has pulled up the campaign contributions. No surprises there.

Posted by Kate at 01:21 AM | Comments (3)  Here's a link to the campaign donations:  CIA leaker a big Democratic donor.

 

The Wayback Machine 6/17/98: BERGER APPOINTS MCCARTHY SPECIAL ASSISTANT FOR INTELLIGENCE--

Total for this search: $7,900

Contributor	Occupation	Date	Amount	Recipient
MCCARTHY, MARY BETHESDA,MD 20817	US GOVERNMENT/ANALYST	10/29/2004	$500	DNC Services Corp
MCCARTHY, MARY BETHESDA,MD 20817	U.S. GOVERNMENT/CIVAL SERVANT	11/1/2002	$200	Andreasen, Steven Peter
MCCARTHY, MARY J BETHESDA,MD 20816	RETIRED/RETIRED	7/16/2002	$200	Morella, Connie
MCCARTHY, MARY O BETHESDA,MD 20817	CENTER FOR STRATEGIC & INTERNATIONA	10/5/2004	$5,000	Democratic Party of Ohio
MCCARTHY, MARY O BETHESDA,MD 20817	U.S. GOVERNMENT/ANALYST	3/14/2004	$2,000	Kerry, John

Mary O. McCarthy - Visiting Fellow, International Security Program--CSIS pulled McClarty's "Expert" bio off their web site!! That was swift; CSIS must hit FR for their news! But I did find some cache.

http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2006/04/war-media-and-politics.html

War, media and politics

One of today's big news items is the dismissal of a person at Central Intelligence for leaking classified material to Washington Post Pulitzer Prize winner Dana Priest. Pajamas Media has a really big blog roundup. Some of the choice items.

Captain’s Quarters: Plugging the Leak says: In From the Cold comments:  Strata-sphere  Big Lizard: Story on the leaker leaked to the press -- That's how ingrained the practice is. You have to leak about the leak.  22 comments links to this post

Interesting to see who the CIA leaker is.

[Suzy Quzy]

Rebecca Donegan/Donegal is ANOTHER name not on that other thread!!! PLEASE GASPAR POST YOUR INFO!!!

[backhoe]

Backhoe has put together a compilation thread that is just incredible. Would one of you please ping me to it?

Here 'tis... hang on to your hat.

[Suzy Quzy]

Coup-plotters all.

[muawiyah]

Thinking back to Friday evening, doing research on this gang by cross-correlating names I found a bizarre one about Edmund WILSON, MARY MCCARTHY, F. Scott FITZGERALD.

Just name coincidences, of course, of the kind where we say art imitating life imitating art. Or vice versa. However, Edmund WILSON wrote a book called "To the Finland Station". Among other things it focused on the use of the cell structure to develop and maintain a successful revolutionary movement.

So, what we have here is obviously a cell structure, and the principals, so far, all have the same surnames as Mr. Edmund WILSON's crowd in the 1920s.

I think they called themselves "Progressives" in those days. Dana Priest and her husband may well be members of a different cell. And Fitzgerald, the prosecutor? Is he part of a different cell, maybe one located primarily inside Department of Justice?

I think Porter Goss has his handsful with this one. Best he go armed at all times.

[Suzy Quzy]

Freeper gaspar has some GREAT info also!! Check it out.

[Suzy Quzy]

OK...That's it...you need to start a NEW THREAD with ALL of that info ASAP!! You seemed plugged in.

[Suzy Quzy]

Backhoe,,,can you get together with gaspar and do a new thread connecting the dots??? You both have FABULOUS info!!

[muawiyah]

Again, one more time ~ the "secret underground CIA prisons" don't exist. Porter Goss ran this bust himself, BTW. No doubt he watches the FOX TV show "24". This was part of the story line of Season 2. It was followed with President Palmer finding America subject to an atomic threat whereupon he elected to incinerate a Middle-Eastern country with nukes.

No doubt that's another story that's been beefed up to entrap yet more Communist spies inside the CIA.

So, no prisons; no atom bombs; no plans to nuke Iran.

Watch the leftwingnuts on TV continue to speak of these things as being "real".

[gaspar]

Another avenue of approach: In August 1998 it was McCarthy at the NSC that ordered General Zinni to prepare a plan to strike Afghanistan. Zinni and Albright did all in their power to stop any Afgan strike or support for the anti-Taleban Northern Alliance. The CIA legal department did all in its power to slow down that process. In the end, thanks to Berger, Zinni, Albright, the CIA and Cohen nothing was done.

[Suzy Quzy]

GASPAR......I can't catch my breath with all your info...you are incredible!! Keep it coming!!

[gaspar]

I think what is lost in all this is the important role Mary McCarthy played under Bill Clinton in really screwing up the terrorist portfolio. Remember, She was not only named the NSC Director of Intelligence Programs in August 1998, that title also included SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Thus we have the former NSC terrorist czar and Clinton insider under arrest!

[Suzy Quzy]

OMG!! She IS a Clinton insider!! I hope they pull out her fingernails for info. Keep em coming gaspar!!

[Crawdad]

I was thinking about Dana not having taken even one class in Journalism, so I remembered some of the courses I took in college that were outside of my major.
I can proudly say that I took more courses in Bowling than Dana Priest took in Journalism.
Try it. Just fill in the blank.
I took more courses in ________ than Dana priest took in Journalism.

[muawiyah]

Which, interestingly enough, put Albright, et al, on the side of the Taliban and against the formerly Communist "Northern Alliance".

That's why your analysis is faulty.

It makes more sense for Zinni and the other running dogs to have held up on ALL US involvement, one way or the other, in Afghanistan, so the Soviets, should they survive the coming breakup of the Russian Empire, could move back into Afghanistan without our opposition.

Zinni and Albright guessed wrong. The Soviet Union crashed. The Taliban could not be kept in check (because AlQaida came to their rescue).

The Communist dialectic applied to prognostications concerning Central Asia turned out to be horribly wrong.

These guys are into the same thing when it comes to Iraq. Their opinion, using Communist dialectic, was that Saddam was not an immediate threat to anyone since he'd exhausted his country in the war against Iran. At the same time, they saw no need to stir up Iran because, in the long run, the Workers (Khalk) Party might have a chance to overthrow a weaking Ayatollah led dictatorship ~ e.g. once a madman rose to the top ~ as has just happened.

So, the Commies and their lackeys in America pursued a course of moderation with Iran, even to the extent of fostering an atomic power program in that country ~ but, they failed to count on the American client state, Pakistan, making a deal with the Chicoms to get nuclear weapons technology (secretly) to hold off the new Chicom commercial enemy, India.

Khan, in Pakistan, then "sold" Pakistan's weapons technology to Iran, and Libya.

Here's another problem with the Commies ~ they are remarkably stupid and fail to think more than a couple of steps ahead ~ an artifact of using Hegelian logic.

BTW, I am finding it exceedingly disturbing to find I am able to discuss this whole CIA/Clintonista gang as if they are merely a bunch of Commies.

Just where did their mothers go wrong.

[BIGLOOK]

Yeoman's work, backhoe......

I'll be busy with this all morning.

[shield]

WOW...great stuff...blogosphere couldn't help out Able Danger which died on the vein....hoping for once we see many more fall then again hoping they all get their just rewards...life in a FED PEN as Pollard did.

Is there just too much protecting each others arse in DC? I mean look at Sandy Burglar, he got nothin' more than a slap on the wrist....Sorry I have little faith of the frog march to a FED lockup facility for any of these criminals.

Now let regular citizens commit such crimes....a definite frog march to a lockup facility. Over time this is just the attitude we out here in middle America have.
....................................................;o(

[backhoe]

I appreciate that link- thank you.

[gaspar]

More on Mary McCarthy's outfit, the Inspector General's office at CIA.

The most recent CIA IG John Helgerson found out as early as late 2004 that his office leaked like a sieve. He personally was in charge of a report that evaluated the CIA and why it had failed to block 9/11. It was sent to the White House in June 2004. Thereaftger, the fact that the report had been prepared, and some of its major elements, (all of which were highly classified) were leaked to the New York Times, which published articles in October 2004. The Helgerson report was highly critical of Tenet and Cofer Black (now at the State Department), among others. The Democrats fought to block the release of this document, and to my knowledge it has never been released in full. As for Halvorson, he seems to be an ally of Porter Goss, and won his CIA spurs during the first Bush administration. Importantly, his career has little to do with the Middle East.

[demkicker]

Thanks!

[MEG33]

;)