(CIA Mary) MCCARTHY’S POLITICAL DONATIONS

National Review Online's 'The Corner' ^ | 4/24/06 | Andy McCarthy

[John Geyer]

We need to conduct an agency audit.

[Bringbackthedraft]

No audit, we need a purge.

[WoofDog123]

the obvious question is if she is getting unreported income (cash) from leakage. that is a lot of after-tax money to be spending on politics.

[Danae]

The CIA has lost its relevance and its objectivity. Time for it to be disbanded, and reformed, VERY much slimmed down.

The only ones that will whine about it will be the enemy, the ones with axes to grind other than doing their jobs, the ones they get PAID for. Protecting the people who hired them. Us.

[for-q-clinton]

Well this one really is Bush's fault. He didn't get Porter Goss in there soon enough. Instead he kept a clinton cronie as the top guy.

That was probably the biggest blunder of his first term. And now we are reaping what we have sown by not playing hardball out of the gate.

Bush needs to go on the offensive about this and play the victim...like Clinton did.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

But the broader context here is an intelligence community that was, quite brazenly, leaking in a manner designed to topple a sitting president. A big question here -- maybe not for purposes of guilt under the espionage act, but for the more important policy issue of a politicized CIA -- is whether she was part of a campaign that was grossly inappropriate for the intelligence community to engage in.

how about....SEDITION?

n: 'an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government'

[Boundless]

> the obvious question is if she is getting unreported
> income (cash) from leakage. that is a lot of after-tax
> money to be spending on politics.

Not just leakage.

When people of modest incomes max out the political
contributions, it is usually the case that they are
either highly partisan, or it isn't their money.
Follow the money.

If she had been a paralegal at a law firm doing this,
we could be certain it was the lawyers' money donated
in her name.

So who would have provided the money?
It's unlikely to have been The Firm itself here.

[ohioWfan]

My question is whether or not there is a Soros connection.

We know that he was pouring millions into Ohio to buy the election, illegally for Kerry..........was McCarthy one of his conduits?

[Jack Black]

ping

[TBP]

We should abolish the CIA and immediately replace it with a new agency which can tehn be staffed from scratch.

The precedent is the Kennedy Administration abolishing the Bureau of the Budget (filled with Republican bureaucrats) and immediately replacing it (in the same legislation) with the Office of Management and Budget (which they stcoked with Democrat bureaucrats.)

[TBP]

We should abolish the CIA and immediately replace it with a new agency which can tehn be staffed from scratch.

The precedent is the Kennedy Administration abolishing the Bureau of the Budget (filled with Republican bureaucrats) and immediately replacing it (in the same legislation) with the Office of Management and Budget (which they stcoked with Democrat bureaucrats.)

[cyberdasher]

The Left whined when the CIA covertly intervened in Chile. In Iran. In Nicaragua. Why do they not whine when the same is happening in our own country?

[thegreatbeast]

Did she know Kerry personally? Did she ever have occasion to brief the senator? It's a small world, especially at that level of government.
The money is more likely a bid by McCarthy to curry favor (and a high level job) with the Kerry administration.

[ohioWfan]

Democrat corruption and treason is NOT Bush's fault.

Suggesting that he might have done something sooner is one thing. Accusing him of being at fault is quite another.

Let's keep this discussion legit, OK?

[khnyny]

Great post.

I thought the CIA should polygraph everyone a long time ago. Looks like they finally did. I don't think this is the last of it somehow, perhaps more heads will roll!o)

Grab the popcorn, should be a good show.

[for-q-clinton]

So you don't think Bush should be accountable for who he appoints to his cabinet and high gov't positions?

You can try to make that argument and you may believe it, but I believe he should be held accountable for those he appoints. EXACTLY LIKE I HELD CLINTON ACCOUNTABLE for his cabinet of criminals.

If Bush had replaced Tenet in the first year he wouldn't be having these problems today. So who's fault is it that he left a democrat crony at the CIA?

If we are going to keep this discussion legit we need to be honest with ourselves.

[gov_bean_ counter]

There is potentially a lot more exposure than is being reported. The IG is more than a watchdog group for the director. The have the authority to perform a QA type function on the quality of an assessment, rewriting a specific finding they believe to be poorly sourced. They can define the minimum source/document threshold that determines if an intelligence finding is actionable.

To really get an idea if this person had an agenda would be to examine any rewrite of assessments or her personal analysis of data.

FWIW, I don't have a good feeling about this aspect of the situation.

[The South Texan]

I agree. On January 20, 2001 as soon as he took the oath of office, an executive order should have been sent to every agency from the CIA to the National Park Service asking for every appointee that was put in their office by Clinton to submit his or her resignation.

Again, the stupid "new tone" rears it's very ugly head.

[1066AD]

About $7,500 in the 2004 election cycle, including husband/roomate. $5,000 went to the Ohio DNC.
Tony Snow read out a longer list totalling nearly $10K if I remember right.