CIA Fires Officer For Leaking Classified Information to Media

She better watch out. Wouldn't want to get the reputation for being the Jack Bauer of the MSM. (Everybody around Jack gets shot, everybody around Dana goes to prison.)

1,181 posted on 04/21/2006 8:41:14 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Self appointed RNC Press Secretary for Smarmy Sound Bites.)

That is what is so fantastic about this Website, the more we post the more freepers add things up and figure out more details, and more things are uncovered. One little clue will add to more and more. Freepers certainly feed on one another and the conclusion to all the posts is uncovering these stories better than the old media. The new media is on the job.

1,182 posted on 04/21/2006 8:42:05 PM PDT by samantha (cheer up, the adults are in charge! Soldier in Bucket Brigade Reporting for Duty.)

See Post 178 it was sarcasm.

"When the sarcasm is so obvious and provided by an arch-neo-evil-racist-homophobe-kid hatin'-greedy conservative such as myself, is the tag absolutely necessary?"

1,183 posted on 04/21/2006 8:43:34 PM PDT by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)

To: gov_bean_ counter; ALOHA RONNIE; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; Marine_Uncle

Good question, one I've never really seen asked all the while that we've known what they were doing. I've checked the answers you've gotten, and I'm not satisfied ; )

I think the answer lies somewhere in
WHY they wanted us out of 'Nam and WHY they want us out of Iraq.

...they value the military as their whore, but talk as though the military is their wife to get us out.

1,185 posted on 04/21/2006 8:46:41 PM PDT by freema (Proud Marine FRiend, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)

HAHAHAHA!!! I know .... I said earlier .. she's got to be in a state of heightened terminal ambivalence: " I'm SO happy .. I'm scared ****less!!!" (sing to the Farmer in the Dell: A-shredding we will go, a-shredding we will go .....)

Per Rocky ... there's always this little memory:

Although Goss sailed through the confirmation vote, he could have a brief tenure if John Kerry is elected. Kerry would of course be entitled to choose a new DCI or NID. Kerry has so far avoided commenting on the Goss nomination.

John Edwards, the Democrats' nominee for Vice President, did not attend the hearings or votes, even though he's a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that vetted Goss. Of the sixteen members of the committee, only four asked difficult and probing questions: Carl Levin (D-MI), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), and Richard Durbin (D-IL). They were outvoted by twelve to four.

Although unsuccessful in blocking the nomination, these four Senators did succeed in getting many important issues "on the record" -- although somewhat less successful in getting Goss to answer questions.

(snip)

It started when he was asked by Senator Rockefeller about his voting record in Congress. Goss replied "the record is the record." As the hearings continued, this phrase would be repeated whenever Goss was asked about controversial positions he's taken, or statements he'd made.

Senator Rockefeller was concerned with statements Goss had made to the press that John Kerry, and the Democrats in general, had voted for cutbacks in intelligence funding.

Rockefeller had a large graph comparing Republican versus Democrat votes for intelligence spending bills. Goss refused to comment on the chart or on any of Rockefeller's questions about his voting record.

In his concluding remarks, Rockefeller accused Goss of having no management experience, and said that no one who'd been in politics as long as he had should do the job. According to Rockefeller, CIA Directors were rarely politicians, with the exceptions of George Bush Sr. and William Casey (who'd worked for the Republican National Committee).

Goss was also quizzed on a bill he'd proposed on June 16th of this year, which would have given the CIA the authority to conduct operations within the United States, something the Agency has always been forbidden from doing. Under intense pressure from Senator Wyden, Goss declared that "The CIA should have no arrest powers in the United States of America."

Defending his bill, he claimed it was the 9/11 Commission which blurred the line between domestic and foreign intelligence collection, and that he did not actually support the idea, but only proposed it to stimulate debate on the topic.

Rockefeller later asked if he correctly understood the bill to give the President the power to direct covert CIA operations within the US by issuing secret findings. Goss acknowledged this to be correct, but seemed more concerned over setting standards to avoid potential liability for violating anyone's civil rights. He gave the impression that any violation of civil rights might be acceptable, as long as the end -- eliminating the threat -- justified it.

I LOVE PORTER GOSS!!!

1,186 posted on 04/21/2006 8:47:15 PM PDT by STARWISE (They (Rats) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author:)

Now if I can just get back 'on topic.' lol

Pinz

1,187 posted on 04/21/2006 8:50:13 PM PDT by pinz-n-needlez

To: Rembrandt; threeleftsmakearight

three, after the 1,107th blast, that will durn sure learn you to use that there sarcasm tag!
BTW, been there, suffered that. Took 3 days to clear up the FReepmail ;o)

1,188 posted on 04/21/2006 8:50:16 PM PDT by ARealMothersSonForever (Political troglodyte with a partisan axe to grind)

Compromised clerks, jerks and assorted high-level cowards, carried Sandy B.

1,189 posted on 04/21/2006 8:50:41 PM PDT by Treader (Human convenience is always on the edge of a breakthrough, or a sellout)

That is the page the WaPa article is running on in the morning.

1,190 posted on 04/21/2006 8:50:44 PM PDT by ordi

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

Good thing we got the 'Roswell is a Hoax' thing to work. Now our Alien mind control crew can work on the Enemies of Dick Cheney.

I'm also particularly pleased that Karl Rove is free to spend more time on the evil weather control machine. California's levees need another round.

Tin Foil Hat off.

Sorry I was browsing at the DUmpster and must have zoned a little!

1,191 posted on 04/21/2006 8:51:29 PM PDT by NAVY84

'I hope it's someone who is a VERY close buddy to...."The Clintons".'

I wonder if they could cobble together a Rico indictment and get the whole bunch?

1,192 posted on 04/21/2006 8:52:06 PM PDT by Rembrandt (We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)

To: MadeInAmerica

He should be prosecuted.

1,193 posted on 04/21/2006 8:53:02 PM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)

She's wrong. Read this .....http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/04/AR2006030400867_pf.html

The Justice Department also argued in a court filing last month that reporters can be prosecuted under the 1917 Espionage Act for receiving and publishing classified informationThe brief was filed in support of a case against two pro-Israeli lobbyists, who are the first nongovernment officials to be prosecuted for receiving and distributing classified information.....

The Espionage Act makes it a crime for a government official with access to "national defense information" to communicate it intentionally to any unauthorized person. A 1950 amendment aimed at Soviet spying broadened the law, forbidding an unauthorized recipient of the information to pass it on, or even to keep it to himself.

1,194 posted on 04/21/2006 8:53:38 PM PDT by blogblogginaway (..)

...a few tricks I did not know

Oh, there are more than a few!

1,195 posted on 04/21/2006 8:53:56 PM PDT by Timeout (I hate MediaCrats!)

To: princess leah

Because they do not do the job that Journalists have always done, especially the investigative journalists They spend useless months day after day on $hit like Abu Grahib,and spend very little effort on any other story especially if it is negative about a Democrat. They take a story about any Republican and run with it to death,but are mostly asleep at the switch on anything else. They cannot figure out why we think they suck and don't buy their Newspapers. They spent precious little time on investigating the Democrat West Virgina House Ethics Committee Congressman and now he has stepped down while the case is ongoing. With the exception of the NY Times (what happened with them was someone drunk over there?)and Wall street Journal,there were no real stories on this by the Major News outlets. Were they waiting to see if he would be dragged away in handcuffs before they acknowledged that there were charges, and why in the hell did a Conservative outfit have to do their work for them and point out how he got rich over night on the ethics committee?

1,196 posted on 04/21/2006 8:54:22 PM PDT by samantha (cheer up, the adults are in charge! Soldier in Bucket Brigade Reporting for Duty.)

To: blogblogginaway

So the left is mining uranium and gold?

1,197 posted on 04/21/2006 8:54:39 PM PDT by freema (Proud Marine FRiend, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)

To: ARealMothersSonForever

1,198 posted on 04/21/2006 8:55:15 PM PDT by STARWISE (They (Rats) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author:)

To: pinz-n-needlez

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/01/AR2005110101644_3.html

This is Dana's Nov. 1, 2005 article. Most of her sentences end, "...according to current and former U.S. intelligence officials and foreign sources." I would imagine that Ms. McCarthy has been invited tp supply as many proper nouns as she would like. ;-)

But then there are these 2 paragraphs...

"The idea of holding terrorists outside the U.S. legal system was not under consideration before Sept. 11, 2001, not even for Osama bin Laden, according to former government officials. The plan was to bring bin Laden and his top associates into the U.S. justice system for trial or to send them to foreign countries where they would be tried.

"The issue of detaining and interrogating people was never, ever discussed," said a former senior intelligence officer who worked in the CIA's Counterterrorist Center, or CTC, during that period. "It was against the culture and they believed information was best gleaned by other means."

I wonder if little Dickie Clarke has upped his lawyer's retainer in the past few days...

Pinz

1,199 posted on 04/21/2006 8:57:19 PM PDT by pinz-n-needlez

Thans for the ping, Sleuth! This could get verrry interesting (I hope, I hope)

1,200 posted on 04/21/2006 8:58:04 PM PDT by Seattle Conservative (God bless and protect our troops and their CIC.)

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