A Sandy Berger protege.
"Mad Mary" and Danny Ellsburg would make a lovely couple.
At first I thought this was about the long-gone great essayist and novelist Mary McCarthy, wife of Edmund Wilson and sister of actor Kevin, who famously went up against "real" Lefty-Stalinint Lillian Hellman in the 60s and exposed her for the fraud she was, which earned Mary a well-publicized lawsuit. The Left , then AND now, would be loathe to lionize anyone as independent-minded as THAT Mary McCarthy.
She's Cindy Sheehan with a security clearance. She should be hitting the talk show circuit pretty soon. Eeycht.