The New McCarthyism

The American Spectator ^ | 4/24/2006 | By The Prowler

[johnny7]

THE GROUP

"It isn't just the CIA that has problems with former politicals getting knee-deep into this Administration's policy and leaking materials," says a current Bush Administration aide. "We're talking about a situation that we haven't been able to deal with in a manner in which we'd want. But this Mary McCarthy case may help us."

The aide is referring to the firing last week of a CIA employee working in the agency's Office of Inspector General. One of McCarthy's jobs was investigating allegations of torture by CIA employees or contractors at Iraqi prisons. The CIA fired McCarthy on evidence that she was one of the sources for Washington Post reporter Dana Priest's report on so-called "Black Site" prisons in Europe and elsewhere that housed captured al Qaeda, Taliban, and some senior Iraqi military and intelligence individuals. Unresolved is whether McCarthy also leaked material to the left-wing organization, Human Rights Watch, which clearly was also a key source to Priest. (Note this quote in Priest's now-Pulitzer Prize winning story: "'I remember asking: What are we going to do with these people?' said a senior CIA officer. 'I kept saying, where's the help? We've got to bring in some help. We can't be jailers -- our job is to find Osama.'" Was this McCarthy?)

[lentulusgracchus]

Even if Valerie Plame was a NOC .....

NOC = ?

"Nightly obliging Chicago?"

[mkjessup]

Nothing personal, but I think I'll go with Post # 12.

[HawaiianGecko]

NOC = ? "Nightly obliging Chicago?"
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[HawaiianGecko]

Dana Priest didn't get a Pulitzer for her great writing.

That's been my thought ever since she received the prize. What exactly did she do to earn the prize? Was her writing itself spectacular? Did she spend months digging for information? Is she being honored for convincing a career employee of the CIA to forsake her country? Or did a story simply fall into her lap as easily as it could have been dropped on any journalist? 

Dana Priest will display her Pulitzer with pride. At best, I'd be ashamed for earning such a coveted prize the way she did, or upset that such a prize has turned into a political football and the judges thought of me.

[Beckwith]

Former members of our military publically attacking the civilian administration that leads the military...

Former and *existing* members of our intelligence agencies attacking the administration and leaking confidential information...

Illegal aliens walking/driving across our borders with absolutely no fear of reprisal... cops in the border states saying they can't arrest illegals, but can only cite and release....

Democrats openly challenging the basis for launching a war in the middle-east DURING the war...

What we have here is a total disregard for the law and it starts at the highest levels. Clinton got the ball rolling and it is going down hill.

This laissez-faire regard for the law is going to lead to our destruction. Just watch! We are already incapable of defending ourselves, it will only lead to someone bringing a nuke in. Why send them through the air when you can drive one in? And our economy will not sustain a nuclear attack on NY or Chicago or LA.

And the weak-assed Republicans that we elected don't do doodley-squat about it.

They're just too busy taking very good care of themselves.

[Paloma_55]

I have been extremely active in the Republican Party for the last 6 years.

Unfortunately, I am reminded of the origins of the word "Politics" which is derived from two latin words.

Poly - meaning "Many"

and

Tics - meaning "Blood sucking parasites"

These guys PRETEND to be statesmen, but they are all about getting it for themselves. Our local "conservative Christian" Republican congressman did what others have found to be fruitful, they hire their spouses to work on their campaigns and pay them hundreds of thousands of dollars to do it.

They can not keep campaign funds, but they CAN pay exhorbitant amounts to their spouses to work on them. This is a scam.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Anything he does will (hopefully) be an improvement. Andy Card would have served the President well if he had resigned in December 2004.

[Beckwith]

have been extremely active in the Republican Party for the last 6 years.

Unfortunately, I am reminded of the origins of the word "Politics" which is derived from two latin words.

Poly - meaning "Many"

and

Tics - meaning "Blood sucking parasites"

Pissah!

[lentulusgracchus]

Or did a story simply fall into her lap as easily as it could have been dropped on any journalist?

It will be interesting to see who sought out whom. My guess right now is that McCarthy sought out Priest as the liberal-on-the-beat with a bully pulpit in the Wa Po.

Which means Priest got the Pulitzer as "Conduit of the Year" from the Media Wing of the Clintonista Cabal. Look for her to start turning up on the talking-head shows, which is the Rat Media's way of rewarding their agitprop footsoldiers.

McCarthy, of course, will go on to become Deputy DCI or something under Hildebeast. Maybe even NSA -- you know we'll need girls in all those heavy-duty jobs, just to prove that women can do the job so much better than men can. (That'll be a major theme of the Hillary Presidency: "America needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.")

Love the .GIF image with the coffee cup -- great!

[kellynla]

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