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."

Excerpt.

[nannaj34]

Afraid there is no end in sight...Who was it that said "We will destroy you from within"?....These leftist "communists" have infiltrated every part of our lives, starting with the learning institutions...brainwashing our kids from elementary school on up...destroying everything that was good or ethical in our society...as of now, they are suceeding....nannaj34

[Mo1]

have you seen this?

Clinton wants anti-Rumsfeld generals to testify
WCAX-TV ^
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1619233/posts

[pinz-n-needlez]

Yes, the Tides Foundation. Wonder if they gave grant $$$ to Goodfellows group...

Teresa runs the Heintz Foundation, but they launder their grants through Tides to reduce the fingerprints and paper trails.

Bundling by any other name...

Pinz

[Crawdad]

Here's something on Mel Goodman, who is a Senior Fellow at Dana Priest's husband's place and a former CIA Analyst. Turns out he had his turn in the spotlight for the Post's online readers to worhship.

http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/zforum/03/sp_world_goodman061003.htm

War in Iraq
With Mel Goodman
Senior Fellow, Center for International Policy
Tuesday, April 15, 2003; 10 a.m. ET

Where are the weapons of mass destruction? Before U.S. invasion, the Bush administration made a detailed case to the world about Iraq's extensive weapons capabilities. However, there has been no proof of prohibited weapons reported by coalition forces.

Mel Goodman, senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and former CIA analyst, will be online Tuesday, April 15, at 10 a.m. ET to talk about intelligence investigations and inspections for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.


The transcript follows.

[Howlin]

Cuba? Can you work Joe Biden and his witchy chief of staff in here? The ones that fought against John Bolton?

That would make me REALLY happy.

[hipaatwo]

Yea I did. He's tied in with Dodd and Kerry! Nomination of Otto Reich:


Two influential Senate Democrats, Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and John Kerry of Massachusetts, have criticized his nomination, and a coalition of at least four liberal research and human rights groups is digging intensively into his record in an effort to derail any confirmation.

"Otto is the low-hanging fruit," said William Goodfellow, the director of the Center for International Policy, a liberal research group leading the opposition.

Some of his critics say Mr. Reich, a Cuban exile and avid critic of President Fidel Castro, should not be entrusted with control of policy toward Cuba.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/0801-02.htm

[hipaatwo]

How bout Kerry and Dodd..#1466 . I forgot to ping you to it..sorry!!!!!

[Crawdad]

And this:

www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1525597/posts

[Peach]

So they're against the embargo of Cuba, it sounds like. And why am I not surprised to see Tom Harkin's name there.

[Peach]

I couldn't get the floppingaces web site to open; am I glad you saved the other web sites too. Smart.

[STARWISE]

AFGHANI
Dana Priest interviews an Afghan farmer in the mountains above Shomali in Afghanistan. Photo: NBC/Norman Ng

Tracking the military is her 'mission'

Washington Post reporter Dana Priest (B.S., Politics, Merrill College, '81) critiques the trend toward soldier-peacekeepers in her new book

Timing is everything. Just ask Washington Post reporter Dana Priest--if you can catch her. Her first book, The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Military, arrived in bookstores this past spring just as jittery Americans prepared for war in Iraq.

She then headed out on a book tour, with stops in eight cities in two weeks, interviews on morning TV shows and C-SPAN, and Council of Foreign Relations speeches. Her vivid account of life with America's military--much of it based on her reporting for the Washington Post--struck a chord. "The reception was just great," she says. "A lot of that had to do with the timing of the book--a lot of people were trying to read about and were wondering about the military."

,b>In the book, Priest warns of a dangerous trend toward having the military handle quasi-diplomatic missions, filling a vacuum left by underfunded civilian agencies. "The face of America is becoming a face with a helmet on," she observed on one TV program.

"On the one hand, you can't help but like the troops, in the sense that they are trying hard, with the wrong tools, to do something they weren't trained for in a culture they don't know," she says. "They don't want to be doing it, and yet they have this very American can-do spirit about them so they're not going to sit around and do nothing."

But despite the soldiers' best efforts, Priest says, "they make some mistakes, and they make some bad mistakes, which gives me pause about what they are doing there." As an alternative, Priest proposes the creation of civilian nation-building forces that are as well organized and well funded as the military. The U.S. experience in postwar Iraq has, if anything, strengthened her view.

The U.S. government "grossly underestimated" the need for peacekeepers and a civilian component in rebuilding Iraq, she said. "They didn't send in a lot of troops that could just keep the peace. I wish everything were working better, but I think it will get a lot worse before it gets better--if it gets better at all," she said in June.

While Priest critiques the trend toward soldier-peacekeepers, her high regard for the troops is clear throughout the book. In fact, Priest sees bridging the civilian-military gap as her own personal mission as an author. She cites two key trends she has witnessed as a reporter: "The military was taking on more and more nontraditional duties, while at the same time the civilians who were supposed to tell the military what they should be doing knew less and less about the military."

This lack of knowledge can lead to unhealthy stereotypes--something Priest says she witnessed during her years in college. "The antimilitary feeling, I believe, is often totally misplaced. It is not the military's decision to go anywhere--it is the civilians' decision to send them there. All these missions are not their choosing; they get sent there by somebody not in uniform."

Following years as the Washington Post's Pentagon correspondent, Priest spent eight months on the newspaper's investigative reporting team for a series about America's regional military commanders. The series, "The Proconsuls," earned her the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the National Defense and forms the basis for part of her book. She also received a research and writing grant from the MacArthur Foundation to write the book.

Priest has traveled widely with both military leaders and troops in the field. Whether in Colombia, Afghanistan, Kosovo, or Nigeria, Priest says she did not feel in danger, but did have "some hair-raising experiences." One time in Nigeria, she took a two-hour ride in an old Soviet helicopter from the capital into the bush. The helicopter was "combat flying" she explains-- "They go as low as they possibly can, because it's harder to shoot at a helicopter if it's flying past you quickly. So you really hug the Earth--or the trees, or the river, whatever." She sat up front, in the "place of honor" without so much as a door to shut next to her. "There were times when I put my feet up--it just felt like we were coming so close to the water."

Priest, who took a leave from the Post to write The Mission, stays a little closer to home these days.

She lives in Washington near the White House with her husband, William Goodfellow, executive director of the Center for International Policy, and their two children. Still, Priest keeps a hectic pace--she barely took time to unpack from her book tour before she was back in the newsroom breaking major intelligence stories that appeared in newspapers around the nation in the days leading up to the invasion of Iraq.

Those stories made her a frequent guest on TV news and discussion programs during the war and its complicated aftermath, and she is now an analyst for NBC.

Not one to slow down, Priest would like to do another book, though she declines to go into detail for fear of jinxing the project. Writing a book appeals to her reporter's curiosity, she says. "You peel back the onion, keep peeling it back, and really get closer to the truth about a subject."

[smoothsailing]

Reconstructing Murtha II: Pork and Earmarks

[SueRae]

Connecting the dots! Excellent work.

[popdonnelly]

"Evidently there is no proof the secret prisons even existed in Europe. And they won a Pulitzer Prize!"

The MSM is a bunch of clueless clowns.

[Zeppo]

Regarding the book that she authored, it may be this one (see here).

Social Change and the Growth of British Power in the Gold Coast: The Fante States, 1807-1874

by Mary McCarthy

ISBN: 0-8191-3149-0 / 0819131490

Title: Social Change and the Growth of British Power in the Gold Coast: The Fante States, 1807-1874

Author: Mary McCarthy

Publisher: University Press of America

Edition: Softcover

Or, you can try to find it in a library near you by searching here.

[2111USMC]

"You peel back the onion, keep peeling it back, and really get closer to the truth about a subject."

We're peeling Ms. Priest, we're peeling.

[Crawdad]

Checkout this lineup. Remember Goodman works with Dana's husband.

http://www.truthuncovered.com/interviews.php#melgoodman

[pinz-n-needlez]

Hmmm...

Wonder who the individual commanders are that were profiled in her book. Did any of them go on to become generals calling on the Sec. of Defense to step down???

>>>>Following years as the Washington Post's Pentagon correspondent, Priest spent eight months on the newspaper's investigative reporting team for a series about America's regional military commanders. The series, "The Proconsuls," earned her the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the National Defense and forms the basis for part of her book. She also received a research and writing grant from the MacArthur Foundation to write the book.>>>>

And it looks like she's getting her personal share of grant $$$ too.

Pinz

[STARWISE]

Figures ..FNC just showed tape of the MCCARTHY TRAITOR testifying before Congress .. giving her portfolio of 20 years in the intelligence field in DC ... she's SO looked like Jamie Gorelick, whom I'm sure she knows well.

Then Peter Brooks, former CIA, was interviewed by Brian Wilson, stated that many of these people have agendas, end up believing they're policy MAKERS, that her crime is very serious .. probably cost lives, and that she'll likely be serving time ... YES!!

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These guys need checking out:

Fourth public hearing of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

Statement of John C. Gannon to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States October 14, 2003

Thank you for inviting me to testify before your commission on the subject of "Warning of Transnational Threats." You have an historic opportunity to help improve the performance of the US Intelligence Community and the broader US Government against terrorism and other transnational threats. I know you are committed to doing so. I want to help you in any way I can.

It is a special pleasure to be here on a panel with Dick Kerr and Mary McCarthy, who are my colleagues and friends of many years in the Intelligence Community. You could not have chosen two people more knowledgeable or experienced in the practice of intelligence, including the critical warning function. I have looked forward to their testimony.

[tcrlaf]

My fear is that by monday, this will be OLD NEWS....