This site seems to have compiled quite a bit of intel on Ms. McCarthy, and others. It is worth reading.
http://neveryetmelted.com/?cat=489
In case we forget:
First, background. McCarthy joined the CIA in 1984. Fourteen years later, she’d risen to the position of senior director for intelligence programs on the National Security Council. How fast was her ascent? “Meteoric,” according to Spook86, a blogger claiming to be a former intelligence official who wonders whether the rapid promotion of comparatively inexperienced officers like McCarthy explains some of the pre-9/11 intel failures under Clinton. If so, then the Reagan and Bush I administrations should share some of the blame: according to the New York Times, by the late 1980s McCarthy was already chief of the CIA’s Central America and Caribbean section despite having no experience in those areas. By 1991 – just seven years after joining the agency – she was a top deputy to Charles Allen, then-national intelligence officer for warning. McCarthy inherited that position from Allen in 1994, then went to work in the Clinton White House in 1996 before replacing Rand Beers as senior director for intelligence programs in 1998.
Bear all this in the mind the next time you read or hear a news report suggesting she was some no-name “analyst.”
Bonus fun fact #1: the guy who appointed her to the position of senior director in 1998 was then-NSA Sandy Berger, who was last seen pleading guilty to destroying intelligence documents after smuggling them out of a National Archives reading room. In his pants.
I thought they were being prosecuted. Now I want to why they have not been prosecuted!
"An Intelligence officer who goes to the press with grievances and leaks classified information is "no better than a common thief,"
Actually, Hoekstra is too kind; when classified information is leaked from the CIA the person can be enabling murder of 'assets,' foreign and domestic.