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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[hipaatwo]

Ping to post 1,435. Look's like Dana Preists hubby is very anit-war.

[Crawdad]

None of those are my own comments. However, they could be.

[I got the rope]

Check this out...http://mysite.verizon.net/res6rexj/id1.html

[Brit1]

Firing is ok as long as the Kiln is hot enough.

[Mo1]

was "founded in 1975, in the wake of the Vietnam War, by former diplomats and peace activists. This mix of those from inside the government and those from outside by choice has shaped both our methodology and our agenda.

OMG ... this is bigger then I thought

check out post #1435

[freema]

ping

[Mo1]

Efforts to limit attempts to eliminate the Colombian drug trade?

IIRC .. Rand Beers wasn't involved with the intell of drug war

[popdonnelly]

"With luck alot of this gambit is being exposed..I believe Mcarthy was in the IG office of the Agency and therefore played a role in the referral letter on the Libby case which had to be a pack of lies."

Great point! Didn't I read that she was the Director of the IG office? How the heck did she get that job? This is great, a Democrat activist pushing for the White House to be investigated, and then being busted for breaking the law! Can it get any better? Hey Fitz, the person who recommended your investigation just got busted!

[pinz-n-needlez]

I guess there are threads with thousands of responses, aren't there? :-)

I got too use to the daily Peterson threads. lol

Pinz

[STARWISE]

Oh jeeze .. another Rat operative, skulking around and networking with the Clinton Cabal of Co-Conspirators!!

William Goodfellow, Dana Priest's husband.

Interesting --- another left-wing globalist group Center for International Policy

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Promoting a U.S. foreign policy based on international cooperation, demilitarization and respect for basic human rights.

The Center for International Policy was founded in 1975, in the wake of the Vietnam War, by former diplomats and peace activists. This mix of those from inside the government and those from outside by choice has shaped both our methodology and our agenda.

The Center has led or played a vital role in an impressive number of citizens' initiatives. Working closely with allies in Congress, including two members who were to become the Center's co-chairs, Tom Harkin and Don Fraser, the Center campaigned to make sure that a government's human rights record became a factor in allocating foreign aid. In the 1980s the Center staff became the Washington advocates for Costa Rican president Oscar Arias's peace plan for Central America.

In the 1990s the Center attracted a number of senior diplomats to its staff and expanded its agenda to include reform of the nation's intelligence agencies. We continued to play an important role in Central America's post-conflict reconciliation, the effort to end the counter-productive isolation of Cuba, and efforts to limit military assistance to the Western Hemisphere, especially Colombia.

This work continues today, along with a robust program on nuclear proliferation in south and east Asia, cutting-edge work on illegal financial flows, and a new effort to promote environmental protection and increase citizen participation in Central America.

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(((There's GOT to be Soros and Teresa Heinz $$ in there somewhere.)))

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We're fighting terrorists who want to destroy US AND these vile dens of conspiracy??? Is there NO end to all these connected Rat anti-American lib networks ??

[popdonnelly]

"Surely you underestimate the members of the MSM to cover anything up!"

I no longer underestimate the ability of the MSM to do anything, including selling out their country. What a collection of whining narcissists! Fortunately, there are people who still care about the truth, even if they are no longer in journalism. And even if this doesn't turn out to our liking, it's still worthwhile to tell the truth about what's happening.

[Crawdad]

I just don't believe that Dana and William's marriage is a Matalin/Carville kind of arrangement.

[popdonnelly]

"They sure have --- Mary McCarthy's name is GONE from the CSIS site... that was quick."

"Snicker". That's one for the books.

[Mo1]

Gee .. would that be this Tom Harkin??

BTW .. didn't Rand Beers take over the Iran-Cantra thing after Ollie left?

[pinz-n-needlez]

Wonder if *he* had a paying gig on Kerry's campaign staff. It looks like Kerry hired every traitor he could find!

Pinz

[popdonnelly]

No maps, please. That's for the DU. We just want to know what they did, not where they live.

[Joan Kerrey]

officer "knowingly and willfully" leaked the information to the media and "was caught."

Just watch as time progresses. This will turn into a whisle blower case and the officer will have the entire dem clan supporting him/her. GOP policy will be trashed and the agent will turn out to be a hero for blowing the whistle on illegal government policy.

[hipaatwo]

VIEWPOINT: America's Home-Grown Cuba Policy
by William Goodfellow January 1999

It is important to understand that the Clinton administration's policy toward Cuba has nothing to do with foreign policy. Even as a candidate, Bill Clinton courted the right-wing Cuban community for campaign contributions. In 1992 he endorsed a bill sponsored by then-Congressman Bob Torricelli (D-NJ) to tighten the trade embargo. The Bush Administration initially opposed the Torricelli bill, fearful that its extraterritorial reach would antagonize our closest allies. Once candidate Clinton signed on, however, President Bush quickly followed.

Again in 1996 after Cuba shot down two planes sponsored by a Miami exile group, President Clinton outflanked the hard-line right by agreeing to sign a further tightening of the embargo sponsored by Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC) and Congressman Dan Burton (R-IN). But even the Helms-Burton position was not extreme enough. Although not pressed by conservatives to do so, the President went further by offering to codify most aspects of the embargo. Up to that point the embargo had been imposed using various executive orders, based on a "state of emergency." By helping the embargo to become a law passed by Congress, the Administration tied its own hands. Now only Congress could dismantle the embargo.

The policy has been driven in part by money, for the Cuban-American community in Miami gives generously to politicians who support their hard-line position. It also is driven by the dream of Democratic candidates to win Florida, the biggest electoral prize in the south. With Jeb Bush in the governor's office, this prize seems likely to be beyond the reach of the Democrats.

Opposition to Helms-Burton has been mounting. Our European and Canadian trading partners resent being told they cannot do business in Cuba, and last year at the UN only Israel voted with the United States in supporting the embargo. Moreover, the U.S. business community has become increasingly vocal in opposing the Cuba embargo, along with the other seventy-two embargoes Congress has imposed over the years. Members of Congress from grain-exporting states as well as traditional Republican free-traders have questioned the embargo, and every major U.S. newspaper has editorialized against the Helms-Burton law.

Policymakers at both the State Department and the National Security Council have been saying that their hands are tied; only Congress can change the policy, and that means that the Republican leadership must be brought along.

In October a group of mostly-Republican foreign policy heavyweights, including former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger, Lawrence Eagleburger and George Shultz, endorsed the idea of a bipartisan commission to conduct a thorough review of US policy on Cuba. Senator John Warner (R- VA), chair of the Armed Services Committee, and twenty-four other senators, again mostly Republicans, signed on to the bipartisan commission idea. The Clinton Administration was being handed a way out of its self-imposed political box. The commission could provide the same kind if political cover for an opening to Cuba that Senators John McCain and John Kerry had provided for the opening to Vietnam.

Rather than run with this political gift, the President decided on January 5 that there would be no commission. Rather, he announced a series of measures that will have little if any impact on the people of Cuba. The embargo will be left intact, but it will be easier to send money to Cubans on the island. The number of direct charter flights will be increased and the licensing procedures will be streamlined somewhat. Americans are not forbidden to travel to Cuba, but it is illegal to spend money there without a license from the U.S. Treasury Department. Only government employees on official business, full-time journalists, and Treasury-approved academics, researchers, and relief workers are granted licenses, and processing applications often takes months. So far the administration has not provided details of the promised easing of travel restrictions.

The only real breakthrough in the January 5 announcement was permission for the Baltimore Orioles to play an exhibition game in Havana and for the Cuban national team to play a game in Baltimore. This idea was first broached by Fidel Castro himself some twenty years ago, and it is welcome.

America's Cuba policy remains hostage to the extreme right in Congress. The three Cuban-American members of Congress, two from Florida and one from New Jersey, along with Senators Helms and Torricelli, are calling the shots. The State Department and the National Security Council are on the sidelines, and there is no immediate prospect that the administration will try to reassert control. And there is no relief in sight. It has been widely whispered in Washington that President Clinton, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and NSC head Sandy Berger all were willing to allow the commission idea to go forward, but it was Vice President Gore who pulled the plug on the idea. Whether it is President Gore, President Bush or President Dole in two years, it does not bode well for a more rational U.S. policy toward Cuba.
http://www.ffrd.org/interchange/vol9iss1/cuba.html

[popdonnelly]

"The NY Times actually reported her $2,000 Kerry contribution."

Some day, they might even report the Wilson's donations to the Democrats.

[Mo1]

and Teresa Heinz $$ in there somewhere

If Terry is involved it would bw through that foundation

Can't recall the name .. But I'm thinking it's was call Tide or something like that