[...} fired Mary McCarthy ‘CATEGORICALLY DENIES’ being the source of the leak on agency renditions.

msnbc/ Newsweek ^ | April 24, 2006 | Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff

[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.

[Bahbah]

That is a very interesting article. Lots of dem talking points. You don't know whether Beers was an originator or an absorber or a bit of both. I have to copy it and read it again more slowly.

[RedStateRocker]

See my earlier reply. I don't know what level the CIA administers them, but the one I took I failed and I was telling the truth; hell it even said I was lying about my name and the address where I had lived for over 22 years; no way I would ever give one of those a shred of credibility on way or another.

[Lancey Howard]

Failed lie detector test. Confessed. Now reported she was not the source to the newspaper story.

As far as I know it is purely conjecture that the reason McCarthy was fired was because she leaked the "CIA prisons" story to fellow traveller Dana Priest. I don't believe that the CIA has said ANYTHING official other than they fired an employee.

At this point we can be pretty sure it was indeed McCarthy who got poop-canned, but it could be she leaked something else entirely. It may have nothing to do with the alleged CIA prisons.

[TommyDale]

Priest is a Banana Slug?

[longtermmemmory]

She is a democrat in the CIA, lying is part of her job.

She has to lie or she faces treason execution.

[AmeriBrit]

If she doesn't get thrown in the slammer maybe she'll tie up with Larry Johnson and the rest of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition losers.

[Prost1]

You are not the only one. I never had to take the test, but I knew a few who did and a few who "failed".

Did they show you the results or just tell you?

Normally, there is something in the FBI files (yes the background check that Hillary is famous for). Mostly it is suspicion from a teacher, neighbor or co-worker and they are attempting to cross check and verify.

If you get to the test and if you don't rattle, you are likely not hiding anything. If you rattle, sometimes it is because they are bored and just like to have fun. Sometimes people are hiding something.

They can be mean that way...

[harpo11]

The Democrat Party has a culture of deception, and betrayal.

[AmeriBrit]

Her attorneys name is Ty Cobb. I beleive I read that he at one time was a Reagan advisor.

[fedupjohn]

Positively Gorish, as one might expect.

Positively Gorleck, "ish"

There I fixed it

[nopardons]

Many thanks for the ping. Great gif, btw.

[STARWISE]

It's snagged .. but completely great ... I like the frequent reinforcement of reality.

[OKIEDOC]

Why isn't this woman in jail?

[nopardons]

It's great, no matter WHERE you got it form, and you should keep posting it! :-)

[AmeriBrit]

The name John Dean that's started popping up all over the place lately, is that the same John Dean of 'Watergate' fame?

[STARWISE]

The very same ... Mo's hubby ;).

[Grampa Dave]

You sound like a trial lawyer at its best!:)

[piasa]

Feb 7, 2006 — The director of the CIA has launched a major internal probe into media leaks about covert operations. In an agencywide e-mail, Porter Goss blamed "a very small number of people" for leaks about secret CIA operations that, in his words, "do damage to the credibility of the agency."

According to people familiar with the Goss e-mail, sent in late January and classified secret, the CIA director warned that any CIA officer deemed suspect by the agency's Office of Security and its Counter Intelligence Center (which handles internal affairs) could be subjected to an unscheduled lie detector test. CIA personnel are subjected to polygraphs at regular intervals in their careers, but one former intelligence officer called the new warning a "witch hunt." Others said Goss' e-mail was narrowly focused and did not suggest agencywide, random lie detector tests.

"It would make no sense at all to give everyone here a lie detector test," said one person who knew about the e-mail. Goss told CIA employees there were ways other than talking to the news media to resolve any issues they had with classified CIA operations.

The memo informs its recipients that the CIA has asked the Justice Department to prosecute any leakers within its ranks. This comes in connection with recent news reports that detailed the CIA's operation of secret prisons in Europe and its far-flung flights of suspected terrorists to foreign prisons....

------------ "Is CIA Leak Probe a 'Witch Hunt'?," by Brian Ross and Richard Esposito, ABC, 2-7-06

[piasa]

Beers got nailed for making a false affidavit to try to block the Dyncorps suit. [chinagate]

[Cap Huff]

Belmont Club has an important entry with speculative comments:

"Mary McCarthy: 'I did not do it'"

http://www.fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/

The comments are where much of the theorizing is laid out.