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| 04-23-06
| The Heavy Equipment Guy
Posted on 04/23/2006 4:11:03 AM PDT by backhoe
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. |
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?
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
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 revokedsince the story for which it was awarded was false?
Dont 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
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 Didnt 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 DIDNT 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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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.
Related links:
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/
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 CIAs 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.
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.
Captains 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.
Interesting to see who the CIA leaker is.
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To: Grampa Dave
Ahhhhhhhh, you may have hit on something!! Tom Clancy also left his wife of many years and married a black gal and I think she's from another country...however that is NOT why I said he went to the dark side. I said that because he has aligned himself with the cabalist Zinni.
To: backhoe
I was engaged in conversation last week with some acquaintences. The topic was the unrelenting frontal attacks on everything Bush, Republican, conservative and pro-American. I stated flatly that there's an attempt for a bloodless coup going on in this nation.....and it has little to do with the Democrat party per se, except old-time clueless Democrats are being used.
It's the entrenched leftists, communists, socialists and traitors that are driving the not-so-silent coup. They're coming out of the woodwork like termites.
Unfortunately, the unaware, politically-uneducated people one talks to today are more interested in gas prices and the American Idol competition.
I've recently come to think we have to organize a political "American Patrol" to expose and fight the left like the non-partisan Minutemen sucessfully organized to combat the foreign invasion of our borders.
Sure the blogs and forums are fighting mightily, but too much is fragmented and unorganized. We need a focal point like the Minutemen created.....and I'm not talking about creating another political party. Maybe "Vigilantes" is not the appropriate word, but as the WW2 song said....."we must be vigilant, we must be diligent, American Patrol........"
Backhoe, you are doing a magnificent job in pulling all this leak stuff together so we can do our job by forwarding it out across the country.
Leni
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posted on
04/23/2006 6:02:56 AM PDT
by
MinuteGal
("FReeps Ahoy 4" will be sailing May 13th! We'll have After-Cruise Pix to Post. Stay Tuned !)
To: backhoe
83
posted on
04/23/2006 6:03:52 AM PDT
by
Leisler
(Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslim.)
To: Leisler
Son of a Gun! Thanks for that intriguing link.
84
posted on
04/23/2006 6:06:52 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
To: MinuteGal
Appreciate, and agree, with your comments...
...keep your powder dry!
85
posted on
04/23/2006 6:07:55 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
To: backhoe
If you access the Washington Post article, "CIA Avoids Scrutiny of Destainee Treatment," March 3, 2005 by Dana Priest you will find not only that she is leaking highly classified material, she makes note that the CIA Inspector General was investigating a half-dozen serious complaints regarding actions in Iraq and Afghanistan. The source? It seems obvious now that it was McCarthy who was working in the office of the Inspector General. This article itself should have been cause for a CIA letter to the Justice Department demanding an investigation.
86
posted on
04/23/2006 6:13:09 AM PDT
by
gaspar
To: All
Here's the list of Clintonites who hosted the fundraiser:
SANDY BERGER
TONY LAKE
DICK CLARKE
JOHN DALTON
RAND BEERS
SUSAN RICE
BOB BELL
BILL DANVERS
ANNE RICHARD
ANNE WITKOWSKY
STEVE ANDREASEN
2,375 posted on
04/23/2006 7:51:53 AM EDT by
maica
87
posted on
04/23/2006 6:17:07 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
To: gaspar
Thanks-
This article itself should have been cause for a CIA letter to the Justice Department demanding an investigation.
I truly hope heads will finally roll over this one. It's just too vast and pervasive to be ignored.
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posted on
04/23/2006 6:19:44 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
To: gaspar
McCarthy would also appear to be the source for Priest's WashPost "Officer Alleges CIA Retaliation," 9 December 2004.
89
posted on
04/23/2006 6:20:22 AM PDT
by
gaspar
To: backhoe
I just did a search on McCarthy's address to check out her 'hood (out of morbid curiosity -
Zillow search results) and it turns out she lives about a block from an elderly aunt. Now I wish I'd kept in touch...
90
posted on
04/23/2006 6:29:01 AM PDT
by
metesky
("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
To: metesky
I just did a search on McCarthy's address to check out her 'hood (out of morbid curiosity - Zillow search results) and it turns out she lives about a block from an elderly aunt. Now I wish I'd kept in touch...Give the old girl a call- this story'd be the perfect icebreaker...
91
posted on
04/23/2006 6:34:33 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
To: Suzy Quzy
More food for thought: Regarding McCarthy and her job at the CIA, it is very important to discern who got her that position in the Inspector General's office. She appears there at about the time that L. Britt Snyder resigned as CIA Inspector General: RECALL, it was Snyder who was named to head the 9/11 Congressional inquiry. It was Snyder who resigned after two months, apparently after attempting to bring onto his staff investegators who did not take, or who failed, their vetting. Now, who was Snyder? He was the Staff Council for the disastrous Church Committee that investigated the CIA in the nineteen seventies. Named by Clinton as IG in 1998 he was the man responsible for whitewashing the Deutsch investigation. If Snyder ran the IG at CIA you can be sure it was a Democrat operation; thus, I ask again, how did McCarthy get her position at the CIA in 2001?
92
posted on
04/23/2006 6:35:49 AM PDT
by
gaspar
To: Grampa Dave; Suzy Quzy
Let me say it again, a little louder:
Maybe we now know where Clancy got some of his insider info on the Agency that ended up in his books.
Has anyone read Clancy's book on Zinni, "Battle Ready"? I haven't, don't think Hubby has, either.
93
posted on
04/23/2006 6:39:48 AM PDT
by
freema
(Proud Marine FRiend, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
To: All
94
posted on
04/23/2006 6:44:01 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
To: gaspar
Let's go back to the beginning......Excellent analysis.
95
posted on
04/23/2006 6:52:48 AM PDT
by
ScreamingFist
(Annihilation - The result of underestimating your enemies. NRA)
To: backhoe
Yes, but Scooter Libby is accused of lying about his conversations with reporters.... /sar
Great job backhoe
96
posted on
04/23/2006 6:56:17 AM PDT
by
petercooper
(Cemeteries & the ignorant - comprising 2 of the largest Democrat voting blocs for the past 75 years.)
To: backhoe
On the CIA, 9/11, etc., a member of The Kerr Group which reported on CIA analyses of Iraq, noted the "consistency" of reporting, and was generally considered a whitewash. One of the three-person members of the group Was Rebecca R. Donegan, who followed the very suspicious L. Britt Snider as Inspector General at the CIA. Given the corpus of Dana Priest's reporting (including a report on the Kerr Group) Donegal should have figured out long before Justice did in 2006, that there was a leak in the CIA's IG office. Second, did Donegal approve or recommend McCarthy for her job at CIA. Perhaps it is time to put Donegal on the hot seat.
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posted on
04/23/2006 6:56:31 AM PDT
by
gaspar
To: backhoe
What one can say with absolute certainty is that Little Mary was "ordered" to give out the info.
Since the prisons were the one thing that Hillary addressed herself, I'd say she was the one who ordered this to be leaked.
Obviously, our nice little Mary also knew the Wilsons and that leads back to Hillary, too... via Matt Cooper (married to Hillary's best friend, Mandy).
All roads lead to Hillary because Hillary is the ONLY benefactor of a weakened Repub party in 2008.
98
posted on
04/23/2006 7:03:05 AM PDT
by
Sacajaweau
(God Bless Our Troops!!)
To: backhoe
I wonder if they're all smiling today
Ha ha ha...
Washington Post Executive Editor Len Downey and Managing Editor Phil Bennett announce The Post's Pulitzer Prize winners.
Pulitzer Prize winners Dana Priest and Robin Givhan hug
Pulitzer Prize winners David Finkel (r), Dana Priest, Robin Givhan (behind Dana) and Susan Schmidt.
Washington Post Managing Editor Phil Bennett (l) with Pulitzer Prize winners David Finkel and Dana Priest.
99
posted on
04/23/2006 7:10:33 AM PDT
by
petercooper
(Cemeteries & the ignorant - comprising 2 of the largest Democrat voting blocs for the past 75 years.)
To: backhoe
This thread is a real piece of work.....a one stop analysis of the democrat shadow government. I bet every politico and msm hack in existence will be lurking here for the next week.
100
posted on
04/23/2006 7:12:35 AM PDT
by
ScreamingFist
(Annihilation - The result of underestimating your enemies. NRA)
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