Posted on 04/23/2006 7:55:07 AM PDT by americaprd
The senior intelligence analyst who was fired Thursday by the CIA is a supporter of Democratic congressional candidate Joseph Sestak, which U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon’s campaign charged is further evidence that the former Navy admiral cannot be trusted on national security issues.
Mary McCarthy was dismissed for leaking classified information about the CIA’s secret overseas prisons to The Washington Post, several media organizations reported Saturday.
Sestak, who served as director for defense policy on Bill Clinton’s National Security Council, received two donations from McCarthy last month totaling $350. McCarthy also contributed $2,000 to Sen. John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign.
Weldon’s campaign reiterated that Sestak accepted contributions from former Clinton National Security Adviser Samuel "Sandy" Berger and former CIA Director John Deutch -- both of whom have admitted to mishandling classified information.
"‘Where will this end?" asked Weldon campaign spokesman Michael Puppio. "Sestak and the Clinton people are attempting to infect Delaware County with these scandals."
Berger, who last month hosted a Washington fund-raiser for Sestak and contributed $1,000 to his campaign, pleaded guilty last year to a misdemeanor charge of removing and destroying classified material from the National Archives.
Deutch was pardoned by Clinton in 2001 for storing classified intelligence reports on personal computers linked to the Internet. He gave $500 to Sestak’s campaign.
"The guy is in the campaign 2½ months and he’s got contributors who are national criminals and the scandal is following him," Puppio said of Sestak. "Now," he added, "a fired CIA employee who may face criminal charges as a result of this also gave" to the Democrat’s campaign.
Sestak campaign spokeswoman Allison Price said Weldon’s "silly" attacks and "conspiracy theories" are signs that he is desperate to hold on to his seat.
"Joe is an extremely strong candidate. He was a three-star admiral. Of course Weldon is going to throw anything at the wall and see what sticks," she said.
Price said Sestak stands by his former colleagues in the Clinton administration and is proud of the work they accomplished in the 1990s. "These are people that know Joe and support Joe and know that he is capable," she said.
McCarthy, who was reportedly serving in the CIA’s inspector general’s office at the time of her firing, was appointed by Berger in 1998 as special assistant to the president and senior director for intelligence programs.
Weldon officials also suspect McCarthy leaked information to the media last year in an attempt to debunk the congressman’s book, "Countdown to Terror," which is highly critical of the CIA. Weldon plans to call for a FBI investigation "to see what national security information she leaked and who she leaked it to," Puppio said.
Sestak entered the 7th District race in February and is widely regarded as the strongest Democratic challenger Weldon has ever faced.
In some previous elections, the 10-term Republican hasn’t acknowledged his Democratic opponent. This year, however, his campaign has launched a full assault on Sestak, labeling him as a candidate who was "handpicked" by former Clinton officials to oust Weldon.
Sestak has previously told the Daily Times that no individual or organization asked him to run for Congress and that the decision was solely his own.
Or the organizations he supports. I doubt he is a member of the Knights of Columbus.
the above?
If the cast of chracters were reversed in party ID and it happen in the 1990's during the Clinton era, the MSM would have been hamering this CIA agent 24/7. The outcry about $3 dollar gas would have been small or even mute.
I hate the MSM and may they continue to wilt on the vine of dishonesty and treason!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
QUESTION: You alluded to the notion of "mission creep," which was a criticism of you when you were running NATO. Would you comment on the new book by Dana Priest, The Mission, where our armed forces are depicted as so incredibly powerful that they seem to be beyond criticism because they are identified with patriotism. According to Priest, the temptation is to use a military solution even if it's not a solution at all but creates a new problem.
WESLEY CLARK: Dana Priest has done the most comprehensive job of anyone yet in laying out exactly what our armed forces are truly engaged in -- and it is staggering. Our armed forces are already driving American foreign policy. They are the "last resort" problem solver for this country abroad. We have no other action agency. We don't have an agency for international development in the sense that there isn't anything like what Bob Komer put together for Vietnam, called Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support. This agency really did modernize and change the economy of South Vietnam dramatically, even during the course of the war. We don't have anything like that today.
...and Ms. Dana Priest, Military Affairs Correspondent for The Washington Post and Guest Scholar at the U.S. Institute of Peace.
Okaaaaay...
A clickable link:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1618849/posts
Snort.
Ping :)
The CIP (Goodfellow) is supported by the National Lawyer's Guild. Lynne Stewart and Ramsey Clark. Fascinating.
From blog.mu.nu (http://blog.mu.nu/cgi/splorp.cgi?entry_id=173229):
"Lynne Stewart is the radical attorney who has been indicted by Attorney General John Ashcroft for enabling her client, the terrorist Sheik, Omar Abdul Rahman, to carry out his murderous agendas while in prison by helping him to communicate with his terrorist organization in Egypt. Rahman was the spiritual leader of a cell that carried out the first World Trade Center bombing and was planning to blow up the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels. Stewart was recruited to the Rahman case by Lyndon Johnson's Attorney General, Ramsey Clark, who has a long history of anti-American causes dating back to the Vietnam War."
You have to conclude that McCarthy has ties to Berger and the Clintons.
There's no question that the Clintonistas are trying to get rid of Weldon. Probably with the full support of Bill and Hillary. They don't like where Weldon's Able Danger probing might lead. It's like Berger stealing memos from the National Archives. Can't have anything out there that makes Clinton's National Security Council look bad. And Berger expects a job in the next Democratic administration. That's why he asked the U.S. attorney to allow him to get his clearance back in 2009.
It would be a very bad day for the U.S. if Weldon was defeated. It would be a clear cut statement that in politics, honesty doesn't pay, but crookedness does.
VAdm Sestak USN (Ret) was the 1st senior officer retired when the new CNO came in. He was everything that Rumsfeld has been accused of in the ad hominum attacks of retired general officers and more. He has the baggage of having been part of the NSC under Berger and been associated closely with the likes of McCarthy and Deutch. The voters of his district will have to decide if "birds of a feather flock together"...
Mary McCarthy had and awful lot of money to give to Dem candidates...
Thanks- just pried the PC out of Miss Emily's hands.
Able Danger ping!!
Thanks for the heads up, americaprd. I was waiting for the Able Danger angle to emerge with this McCarthy clown. Good for Porter Goss and his sting operation. Looks like he's snagged McCarthy, Dana Priest, the Wash Post, and the Pulitzer organization with one huge net- and provided lots of ammo for Weldon's campaign in the process.
Now we know.
Perhaps Anthony Schaeffer will build a live, updatable website that diagrams these fifth column relationships the way Able Danger did. I'll subscribe!!
Now we really need a "network" program.
Anyway I posted info re Weldon from this thread on the "mother thread"; post # 2432 (!!)
Trying to keep all information gathered in one thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1619050/posts?q=1&&page=1
The Pulitzer and the Nobel have become vehicles for anti american hatreds.
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