Fired Officer Believed CIA Lied To Congress

Washington Post ^ | May 14, 2006 | R. Jeffrey Smith

[YaYa123]

A senior CIA official, meeting with Senate staff in a secure room of the Capitol last June, promised repeatedly that the agency did not violate or seek to violate an international treaty that bars cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment of detainees, during interrogations it conducted in the Middle East and elsewhere.

But another CIA officer -- the agency's deputy inspector general, who for the previous year had been probing allegations of criminal mistreatment by the CIA and its contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan -- was startled to hear what she considered an outright falsehood, according to people familiar with her account. It came during the discussion of legislation that would constrain the CIA's interrogations.

That CIA officer was Mary O. McCarthy, 61, who was fired on April 20 for allegedly sharing classified information with journalists, including Washington Post journalist Dana Priest.

[YaYa123]

"There's Something About Mary" Not just a bad movie anymore

[Darkwolf377]

"That CIA officer was (insert) Clinton Loyalist (end insert) Mary O. McCarthy, 61, who was fired ..."

Just tryin' to help.

[YaYa123]

"McCarthy was not an ideologue, her friends say, but at some point fell into a camp of CIA officers who felt that the Bush administration's venture into Iraq had dangerously diverted U.S. counterterrorism policy."

This reporter acknowledges "a camp of CIA officers" at odds with Bush. Who can doubt this "camp" of disgruntled officers didn't conspire to do harm to this administration. The timing of this article proves it, yet again.

[YaYa123]

Many thanks to "must reads" at Lucianne.com for the following killer info on Mary McCarthy:

http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/1803#comments

Just a sample:
"Looks like Mary McCarthy and the rogue CIA agents, along with the news media (and an out of control prosecutor?) have decided the time is right to admit she was just trying to be a hero. The Washington Post is getting more leaks about McCarthy from her ‘friends’ (Rand Beers, Sandy Berger, Richard Clarcke)"

[Darkwolf377]

From all I've been reading of this story I am thinking it's time someone gets off his fat behind and either lowers the boom and just shuts down the CIA, which is acting as a publicly-funded arm of the DNC, a kind of shadow government, or starts sending out subpoenas in a flurry.

McCarthy, as this article tries to avoid pointing out, never blew the whistle on anyone--she's no hero, she's a leaker, which is against the rules of her job. (Where is the press which was so concerned with leaking Plame's name when she was supposedly undercover?) She never testified before congress, but now she's starting to panic and talk about how she has this long-standing distrust of the government, so she started leaking...

Why not just demand to testify before her soulmate Jay Rockefeller?

Why not OPENLY quit her job and fall on the sword and say yes, I am breaking the rules but I am burning with this oh-so-horrible information and MUST tell all! (No, I am not advocating any such thing, but she's the one the press are trying to portray as a hero--so where are her "heroic" actions?)

I hope this new CIA chief is going to bring the hammer down, because the CIA seems to be emboldened to continue acting as a rogue agency. We've already got one in State, though it seems like Condi has cooled some of those shennanigans.

[Dog]

McCarthy also told others she was offended that the CIA's general counsel had worked to secure a secret Justice Department opinion in 2004 authorizing the agency's creation of "ghost detainees" -- prisoners removed from Iraq for secret interrogations without notice to the International Committee of the Red Cross -- because the Geneva Conventions prohibit such practices.

ANOTHER LEAK!

Almost all of McCarthy's friends and colleagues interviewed for this report agreed to speak only on the condition of anonymity because her case still could be referred for prosecution and because much of her work involved highly classified information.

SHE LEAKED THE "GHOST DETAINEE'S" THRU FRIENDS....the VIP'S GROUP!

As a former director of intelligence programs in the Clinton administration's National Security Council, McCarthy was entrusted with deep secrets regarding the nation's covert actions overseas. She was a contributor in 2004 to the presidential campaign of Democratic Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.), and a former colleague of two Clinton aides -- Richard A. Clarke and Rand Beers -- who had publicly assailed what they considered President Bush's misguided focus on Iraq.

What I take from this article....is Mary Motormouth has just told the powers that be....she knows stuff....and they better back off.

If this was baseball....this was a brush back pitch.

[Dog]

McCarthy was not an ideologue, her friends say, but at some point fell into a camp of CIA officers who felt that the Bush administration’s venture into Iraq had dangerously diverted U.S. counterterrorism policy.

She admits there is a rogue element..out to get this admin.

I also see this as a declaration of war....on the part of the rogues.

[YaYa123]

You said, "I also see this as a declaration of war....on the part of the rogues."

More like a re-affirmation of war. I'm not sure when the war began in earnest, but certainly Valerie Plame's Niger plan with hubby came long before this latest. But you're right about the rogues, within the CIA, from the Clinton administration, and former CIA, all have a shared agenda....to bring down this administration.

I LOL at the denial by McCarthy and her lawyer that she leaked classified information about secret prisons to Dana Priest. They make the denial but look how this article describes McCarthy's main area of interest....illegal prisoner abuse and torture. Where else would illegal torture take place except in secret overseas prisons?

And the CIA IG, where McCarthy was the deputy, is supposed to ferret out her fellow CIA leakers and co-conspirators? I'm not holding my breath.

[vaudine]

Because of her heartfelt convictions, this unelected DNC stooge decided to make national foreign policy? Hey Sandy Burglar et al-"IT'S AGAINST THE LAW".

VAUDINE

[backhoe]

Everything I've found so far about this is here:

CIA Leak, Mary McCarthy Link Roundup
various FR links & quotes | 04-23-06 | The Heavy Equipment Guy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1619886/posts

[tobyhill]

Yep, Washington Compost is about to sell Priest out because I will venture to say that new evidence is coming out that there was no secret European prisons run by the CIA and this is going to be a big rope-a-CIA-MSM-dope. There's some evidence that the CIA conducted fly overs with prisoners but nothing indicating prisons no matter how hard they look.

[Vigilanteman]

Good points, all, but no reason to pass up throwing the book at the b**** for everything possible. The CIA should not be an affirmative action program for disgruntled liberals, fifth columnists and Clintonistas. If it has become so infected, it should be fumigated from top to bottom, even if it means shutting down the agency and transferring duties elsewhere for a time.

[mewzilla]

The people behind these leaks make Benedict Arnold look like a piker.

[McGavin999]

OK, anybody else here connecting the dots? We have a CIA that isn't smart enough to figure out that the American people won't get mad at a government that is looking out for their safety and yet we wondered why nobody knew about 9-11???? These people are terminally stupid!

[bert]

When I got to the red "compost" attribution I Quit reading. The paper is now playing artillery role in the counter attack.

[Bahbah]

You won't want to miss this one.

[jazusamo]

Mark

[gaspar]

McCarthy is a liar (she failed a polygraphy among other things), an ideologue (check her husband and her own political proclivities), and worst of all, a coward. If she knew that the CIA had dissembled at Congressional hearings, she could have resigned and taken her argument public. Being as devious as she is, it would have been no trick to meet with a Democrat Senator to inform him/her of the problem. Instead she stayed on and leaked to the press in the hopes of destroying an administration she hated. She was obviously a serial leaker and enjoyed the effort.

Bush, who as most Conservatives now realize has even more political blind spots than his father, should bring in his AG and tell him to announce within the week that charges are being brought against McCarthy. However, he seemingly has never learned the meaning or the importance of the term, carpe diem.

[Dilbert56]

The "leadership" at the CIA has to be neutralized. It will take too long to fire them all so we need to have the people who actually work report to someone new and trustworthy.

Long-term, there needs to be a decoupling of management viability with intelligence conclusions. It seems if someone adopts a position, like "Saddam=secular, Al Qaida=religious, therfore no cooperation" they must defend it to the death. Information which doesn't fit gets circular-filed. This gets in the way of providing objective analysis. It seems analogous to the military where a particular general or admiral's career gets wedded to a weapons system. If the system ends up rejected, the officer's career tanks (pun intended).

[USNBandit]

creation of "ghost detainees" -- prisoners removed from Iraq for secret interrogations without notice to the International Committee of the Red Cross -- because the Geneva Conventions prohibit such practices.

These prisoners receive Geneva Convention "type" treatment out of the good graces of this government. The are not eligible for that treatment since they operate in civilian clothes, do not carry a Geneva Conventions ID card and commit the vast majority of their attacks against civilians.