You made my day with this post. Christopher Hitchens writes truth and I'm thrilled he's written about Mary McCarthy illegally disclosing classified information to reporter(s). And most especially, for making us realize Joe Wilson's probable connection to McCarthy and to Dana Goodfellow Priest.
Now, where are our Republican Senators? Where's John McCain who never misses a chance to speak out on everything?
--I suspect this will be the sum total of Repub activity--
One thing that has not been mentioned on this subject is that while the CIA polygraph may have fingered McCarthy she could have responded until hell freezes over that the machine was wrong and that she did no wrong. Instead, she was not told her employment had to be terminated. Instead she was marched out of the building. Thus, they must have had a hell of a lot of information on her and the polygraph was superfluous to her personnel action. There is always the case that when confronted by the poly, or the facts, or both, that she cracked. She may have admitted her felonies. What is unexplained is the direct relationship between McCarthy and Priest. The CIA must have known this. Finally, there is something missing here, and I believe it is found in Justice Dept. Her name was probably referred to Justice and it is possible that her phone(s) were tapped, and evidence gathered by the FBI confirmed her guilt. Justice informs the CIA, the CIA gives her a poly, she fails, and is frog-marched out of the building and out of McLean. This should be the beginning of this scandal, not the end.