Posted on 04/24/2006 3:03:57 PM PDT by Roscoe Karns
WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff
Updated: 5:43 p.m. ET April 24, 2006
April 24, 2006 - A former CIA officer who was sacked last week after allegedly confessing to leaking secrets has denied she was the source of a controversial Washington Post story about alleged CIA secret detention operations in Eastern Europe, a friend of the operative told NEWSWEEK.
The fired official, Mary O. McCarthy, “categorically denies being the source of the leak,” one of McCarthy’s friends and former colleagues, Rand Beers, said Monday after speaking to McCarthy. Beers said he could not elaborate on this denial and McCarthy herself did not respond to a request for comment left by NEWSWEEK on her home answering machine. A national security advisor to Democratic Party candidate John Kerry during the 2004 presidential campaign, Beers worked as the head of intelligence programs on President Bill Clinton’s National Security Council staff and later served as a top deputy on counter-terrorism for President Bush in 2002 and 2003. McCarthy, a career CIA analyst, initially worked as a deputy to Beers on the NSC and later took over Beer’s role as the Clinton NSC’s top intelligence expert.
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Rand says she did not leak it. No comment directly from Mary to MSNBC.
Positively Gorish, as one might expect.
The spin cycle has started.
We're supposed to accept hearsay that she's innocent?
Circle the wagons because they all know the trails cross their paths.
Sounds like Bill and Hillary Clinton are trying to do damage control with their leaky source... Deny everything, just as Bill did during his presidency...
Sounds like the start of a legal defense to me.
Remember... polygraphs (at least not the types that were conducted) are admissable in a court of law.
Unless there is witnesses or papertrail, this might just be her play to stay out of jail WHERE SHE BELONGS.
She's making it very difficult to connect the dots within the RAT party...
She confessed, now she denies? Hmmm... just another Democrat.
What happen did their pipeline dry up????
I suspect Rand is up to his neck in this. The story has to stop before it reaches him.
M. McCarthy categorically failed a polygraph...
Must be more of these blatantly obvious Clinntoonista/sKerry backgrounded people in these crucial positions. I hope to h*ll Goss is looking at them under a microscope - and then do what is done to bugs: squish
Wasn't there a report that when confronted she confessed, or admitted it???
Rand Beers is an admitted documented liar.
Beers is very worried or he wouldn't have had a need to contact her.
Am I wrong, did she NOT confess?
"Rand Beers"
Clark pal, left the Bush administration to handle foreign affairs in the Kerry campaign.
Joe Wilson, while working with the Kerry campaign writes a New York Times piece criticizing Bush.
The Kerry ties get closer and closer.
Like the Simpson and Mumia murders (among others), Nobody did it!
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