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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The wiley old con man sure was thinking ahead, eh?
The media is completely silent on this story today; not a single word of this on Fox and Friends this morning. Makes you go hmmmmmm.
The graphics are from Rush Limbaugh, the master at clarification!
I just reread the November article Dana Priest wrote and then read the online chat she had the day after the article ran. She does mention the Gulfstream story in the online chat, so my suggestion about her mentioning it because she found out about the lie detector tests wrong.
Thanks. Interesting last paragraph.
[I am so disgusted with the lack of media coverage.]
Don't dispair, remember how long it took for the Dan Rather and Mary Mapes scandal to unfold.
Yup, Dubya's "turn-the-other-cheek" Christianity got the better of him...yet again.
Did you see that the machine was saying you lied or did you rely on those interpreting the results? Plenty of times they say one is lying just to see how that person reacts.
Michael Isikoff is an enemy of the United States and a full-time apologist for the Clintons.
Newsweek magazine on Sunday (5/15/2005) said it erred in a May 9 report that said U.S. interrogators desecrated the Koran at Guantanamo Bay, and apologized to the victims of deadly Muslim protests sparked by the article.
"We regret that we got any part of our story wrong, and extend our sympathies to victims of the violence and to the U.S. soldiers caught in its midst," Editor Mark Whitaker wrote in the magazine's latest issue, due to appear on U.S. newsstands on Monday.
Michael Isikoff, who is responsible for reporting this rumor, should be fired. The blood of the dead and injured is on his hands.
However, Michael Isikoff knows that stories advancing the Leftmedia's editorial agenda have a better chance of being published than those that do not. For example, when Isikoff submitted a report on Paula Jones's accusation that Bill Clinton, while governor of Arkansas, had exposed himself to her, his employer at that time, The Washington Post, the parent company of Newsweek, declined to run the story.
Then, when Isikoff proffered Kathleen Willey's account of being sexually accosted by then-President Clinton (including plenty of evidence), Newsweek declined to run the story.
Finally, when Isikoff broke the story about Clinton's relationship with a 21-year-old White House intern (something feminists used to regard as a no-no), Newsweek once again declined to run the story. When Matt Drudge subsequently reported the story and the fact that it was spiked by Newsweek, he became famous.
Yet given the chance to undermine the foreign policy of a Republican president and sully the reputation of our nation's fighting forces, Newsweek throws all caution to the wind.
Kinda makes you wanna go, "Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?"
I'm not sure I believe in all lie detector tests either but in general the public seems to believe (don't we always trust technology?). The assumption of course is that we all physically react the same to stress. Of course everyone knows this is not so and many are quite adept at believing their own lies so it does call the test into question. At the same time I think professionals who spend the time with individuals can define test baselines and compare those baselines with responses to stressful questions. I would expect the people who regularly administer CIA lie detector tests are probably quite good at what they do. On a side note, I remember during the Thomas hearings right at the end after all the testimony, the left announced that Anita had taken and passed a lie detector test... as if that was supposed to prove everything she alleged. Of course I don't recall who conducted the test or if the media ever bothered checking.
If she did it, she's a traitor - pure and simple.
I've been noticing that MOST newspapers aren't printing her PHOTO. It's obvious they don't want to make life tough for her, the way they do for Republicans.
Now, off to check if there are any new developments.
Depends on who gave you the test..NSA, CIA, DIA....know what they are doing... if you fail a test with them, there is no doubt in their minds....
I would think anyone posting on a political/government site should know this, but apparently a lot of people, including you two, do not.
Let me repeat this. The President fired all of the political appointees from the Clinton administration. People like McCarthy and Plame could NOT be fired, because despite their dedication to the DNC, they were protected by the Civil Service Law. It was ILLEGAL to fire them.
Well she's a Dumocrat hack, so it is accepted theory that she is lying about SOMETHING.
Yes, yes, of course we know about civil service employee. However, people like Tenet, I believe serve at the lesisure of the president. Or am I wrong about that?
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