Posted on 04/25/2006 6:45:01 AM PDT by MplsSteve
On one level, CIA Director Porter Goss' decision to fire Mary O. McCarthy for leaking classified information to reporters may simply reflect necessary agency discipline.
But it also perfectly fits the pattern of this administration: Hide unflattering information that Congress and the public should know, while selectively leaking classified information that fits the White House political agenda.
McCarthy was fired for leaking information to Washington Post reporter Dana Priest about the CIA's system of secret prisons around the world where terrorist suspects are held. For her reporting, Priest won a well-deserved Pulitzer Prize.
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
This one comes very close to taking top prize. Un-freaking-believable! Their logic and sense of right wrong is more than a little flawed, I think.
Opinions or comments - anyone?
The same logic could be used to say that Julius and Ethel Rosenberg told the truth. Have a seat Ms. McCarthy.
One more illustration, starker than most, of why the press is generally detested.
These leaches will destroy our country, 1 step at a time, and liberal MSM will approve of it to get the sheeple to agree.
This is TREASON. Treat her as such.
Wow, what an objective headline from the drive by media!
/s/off
The hilarious thing is...if one of Clinton's schemes to capture Bin Laden for trial had succeeded, Bin Laden would have spent time in one of these secret prisons before he could be brought to the United States.
Check this out!
http://tinyurl.com/qufay
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"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."
How about "Breaking the Law to shine a light ..." ?
or "Committing a Felony to shine a light . . . " ?
or "Going to Jail to shine a light . . . " ?
or "Committing Treason to shine a light . . . " ?
Call it what it is and don't sugar coat it. If you aren't sugarcoating the "light on truth", don't sugarcoat the act the leaked the classified information.
Let her be a celebrated, but incarcerated, criminal. Lock her up first, and then exalt her.
So Mary needs to follow a higher law when her conscience dictates such? And she's a heroine for doing so?
Yet the possibility of following a higher law was the main reason for panic about Justice Roberts, Scalia, et al, not to mention John Ashcroft and President Bush. Just how do these liberals justify their hypocrisy in demanding absolute adherence to "settled law", i.e., abortion, and lionizing someone who breaks the law for her perceived "higher duty"?
Only when it is a liberal trying to stick it to bush are they justified. But if it is a conservative trying to show the truth they are jumped on by the media. Case and point is Ms McCarthy getting treeated like a saint and Mr. Libby being treated like the anti-christ.
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