[John Geyer]

We need to conduct an agency audit.

[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'

[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.)

[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.

[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.

[bjc]

Will we now begin to see the fruits of Porter Goss's internal review or is this it? The dragging on of the Libby-Wilson-Plame affair makes me skeptical that we will ever get to the bottom of this cess pool.

[nutmeg]

ping!

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[nutmeg]

Unbelievable... woman caller (Becky from Hartford, west end) on Jim Vicevich's show now emphatically stating: "I think Mary McCarthy is a hero and should be given a medal for this. The Bush administration is downright scary..."

"We need people who don't give over their souls and consciences to their employer."

Vicevich slappin' her down with the FACTS... explaining why these overseas prisons needed to be kept secret, and how McCarthy's leaks are putting people's lives in danger. Becky continuing to let emotion rule over reason... she's spouting off (and is becoming louder and more "upset") about how dare the "the US can use any means necessary to extract information... that's creepy!" *barf*

[Loyal Buckeye]

Mary McCarthy (D, CIA)

[Lancey Howard]

Now we find that an intelligence officer who was leaking information very damaging to Bush was a Kerry backer to a degree that was extraordinary for a single person on a government salary, and, even more extraordinarily, gave $5K of her own money to Democrats in the key swing state (Ohio) that, in the end, did actually decide the election.

From where I sit, that’s pretty damn relevant.

Wow! Five grand! That's what I call dedicated to the socialist Democrat cause.
Very dedicated.

[Prost1]

That is a lot of money for a government employee. Giving the max amount!

Question. Does her IRS returns and income support her lifestyle. This is how Aldridge Ames was spotted (I believe).
Is this her legitimate money or money funneled to her to avoid "campaign laws"?
Was it possibly Kerry "back-door money" or Soros?

[LastDayz]

 

 

Where's the media?

 

[----crickets chirping----]

 

Hm - thought so, as usual FReepers have to do the heavy lifting.