CIA Fires Officer For Leaking Classified Information to Media

Fox News ^ | April 21, 2006

[Howlin]

Just breaking on Fox...

No details, but the agent was caught dead to rights leaking....

Update: CIA Officer Fired for Leaking Classified Info to Media

WASHINGTON — A CIA officer has been relieved of his duty after being caught leaking classified information to the media.

CIA officials will not reveal the officer's name, assignment, or the information that was leaked. The firing is a highly unusual move, although there has been an ongoing investigation into leaks in the CIA.

One official called this a "damaging leak" that deals with operational information and said the fired officer "knowingly and willfully" leaked the information to the media and "was caught."

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[Timeout]

Cocky little twirp

Unless I'm mistaken, she's also WRONG. The Supreme Court in the Pentagon Papers case specifically REFUSED to exempt the NY Times from prosecution for disclosing national secrets. They weren't prosecuted, but that's quite different than its not being illegal!

[ordi]

Great Link! I note this will run on A01 in the AM! WOW, this must be serious! LOL Here is another interesting tidbit from the article: Intelligence officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the dismissed officer identified by others as McCarthy has not been charged with any crime and is not believed to be the subject of a Justice Department investigation. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/21/AR2006042101218_pf.html I wonder who the target(s)is/are? Hmmmmmmmm HELP! Can someone tell me how to post and not have it all run together?

[samantha]

There is only so much info that a Press Secretary can share with the Public. If he is in Talk Radio and Fox News there is a helluva lot of things that he can do without going through the media "ring of fire" that is bad for his health. I believe that is so much more exciting being on the outside unrestricted than on the inside having to watch every word and make sure you are in sync with your Boss.

[maica]

Mares eat oats and does eat oats

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What an education is FR.

I always thought that line was:
Mare zee doats and dozy doats and little lambsy ivy.
I've never seen it written before.

[NAVY84]

I was just over at the DUmpster. They are pretty quiet about this whole thing. A few nominations for Hero (took a while for them to figure out he is a she - I saw her picture and I can understand their confusion).

The big story that their trying to comfort themselves with is that Condi is going to be subpoenaed for leaking to Lobbyists.

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-pentagon-spy-probe,0,4200520.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

As a side note: They were ranting about the right-wing rags (WaPo and NY Times!!!!!!!!!!) in some unrelated threads. How far left do you have to be to have that point of view? This is probably why the Hildebeast thinks she can be seen as 'centrist'.

[pinz-n-needlez]

Found this ifno on Beers, with a reference to his freind, Clarke in a July 2004 of the New Yorker about Kerry: http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040726fa_fact

Re-reading the Kerry 'mythology" is a hoot if you've got the time. ;-)

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Rand Beers served with the Marines in Vietnam, and he has served as a foreign-policy or national-security officer under every President since Richard Nixon. In August of 2002, the Bush Administration named Beers Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Combating Terrorism on the National Security Council, a post he’d held under Ronald Reagan and the first President Bush. This was a version of the job that had previously been held by Beers’s good friend Richard Clarke, who is now famous as the author of “Against All Enemies,” the best-selling exposé of Bush’s Iraq and terrorism policies. Within a few months of his assignment, Beers concluded, as Clarke did also, that the Administration’s focus on Iraq was sapping its attention to the war on terrorism and the demands of homeland security. But his alarm at the resurgence of warlordism in the former Al Qaeda strongholds of Afghanistan was ignored, and on the eve of the invasion of Iraq he resigned from the White House “in opposition to the war” and, he told me, “because I wanted to be part of changing the regime” in Washington. “We were supposed to be facing the most important enemy that we had, Al Qaeda, and we were moving off of that.” Beers soon had a new job, as the top foreign-policy and national-security man on the Kerry campaign.

Beers had admired Kerry’s work in the Senate on the Iran-Contra investigation, on narco-terrorism, and on the restoration of relations with Vietnam. But he was especially encouraged by the speed with which Kerry began to question the Bush Administration’s dedication to fighting Al Qaeda after September 11th. Kerry was among the first public figures, in 2002, to charge that Bush had not matched his action to his rhetoric in pursuing Osama bin Laden but had in fact let him slip away in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan, where American commanders hired tribal fighters of dubious allegiance to pursue him instead of sending in our Special Forces. (“After all the chest-thumping, and commitment of America to avenge what happened and to capture Osama bin Laden, we were timid—to say the least—at Tora Bora, and in our response,” Kerry told me.) “We didn’t know then what we know now” about Bush’s eagerness to shift the theatre of war to Iraq, Beers said, but Kerry’s “prescient” recognition that the fight against Al Qaeda was being neglected convinced him that Kerry was the man to back against Bush. As it turned out, Beers said, “Iraq, for better or worse, has become part of the war on terrorism if only because it is an inspiration to Al Qaeda in its recruitment efforts.” But he told me, “At the same time, we’re going to have to figure out how to strengthen the war on terrorism more broadly, which is why we come back to that central point, which is, we have to find a way to bring more of the world into this part of the struggle.”

Beers’s prominent position in the campaign reflects Kerry’s desire not to allow Iraq to define the limits of the foreign-policy debate. In late May and early June, Kerry gave a series of speeches about national security, in which his focus was pointedly on areas that have been eclipsed by Iraq: nuclear proliferation, homeland security, and the expansion and transformation of the military.

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Pinz

[BigSkyFreeper]

Mare zee doats and dozy doats and little lambsy ivy.

I've also seen it written as: "Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey"

[ARealMothersSonForever]

Now you have to add Condi Rice. "April 21, 2006, 8:38PM
Lawyer: Rice Allegedly Leaked Defense Info


By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press Writer
© 2006 The Associated Press

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice leaked national defense information to a pro-Israel lobbyist in the same manner that landed a lower-level Pentagon official a 12-year prison sentence, the lobbyist's lawyer said Friday.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/3811272.html
That was pretty fast work to get a "counter-leak" story out.

[Timeout]

It just made the top of page 1, NY Times.
Yep. Legs.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Mairzy Doats

[onyx]

Thank you, Pinz.
I am through reading tonight, unless it's a short read.

I think I have read the equivalent of a trashy novel tonight. My eyes are tired.

=== placemark ===

[pinz-n-needlez]

Thank you. :-)

Go rest your eyes. lol My Grandmother would protest that she was just 'resting her eyes' when she would start snoring while having a 10 minute put-your-feet-up break in the afternoon. ;-)

Pinz

[tanknetter]

Cocky little twirp, isn't she?

Indeed. I was struck by this comment she made:

If nothing else, I would think the new prez would want to assess the effectiveness of such things on actually gaining any new and valuable information and also the cost, in terms of the US strategic aims, of a decline in the standing of the US around the world--which has certainly occurred in the last several years, in part because of some of these methods.

Gotta love how she feels qualified to tell a yet-to-be-elected US President how to do his job ...

[onyx]

WOO-HOO!

[Timeout]

Try HTML SANDBOX.

Look for "paragraphs".

[STARWISE]

"technically" = an attribute of a journalistic conspiracy with a government leaker, wherein the leaker delivers classified information to the reporter in a time of war, being assured by said reporter that her identity is protected, and that she's providing a critically important service to the American people.

[musicman]

"Meanwhile, the Justice Department says that "there [are] dozens of leak investigations under way." It seems likely that one of them relates to the leak of the NSA's terrorist surveillance program."

I'd like to hear the "chatter" between the CIA "friends-of-Mary" employees about now....

OOPPPSSS!!! Sorry !! We can't "domestically spy" on Americans cuz the Dem's passed a law or something????

...and thanks to "McLame", we can't even "torture" them???

How are we gonna find the "leakers" and make them confess??

(...The "woe-is-us" sarcasm off thingee goes in this spot..)

[samantha]

It seems like they all took an awful lot of chances both illegal and legal to cover up their crappola. I cannot believe how many people have gone to such lengths to try to tar others and to eventuate their Power. There is a terrible,ugly sickness that is pervasive in the Democrats. I hope that she is charged,tried and convicted and then sentenced to death,but not before she blows this whole thing sky high and names all the co-conspirators and they are handled equally by The Courts. This is no time to be squeamish.

[pinz-n-needlez]

Mares eat oats.
And does eat oats.
And little lambs eat ivy.
A kid will eat ivy too,
Wouldn't you?

Thank you, Captain Kangaroo. :-)

Pinz