Posted on 04/21/2006 12:01:43 PM PDT by Howlin
Edited on 04/21/2006 12:47:23 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
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."
Okay. Let's have a look at this Dana Priest:
I'm sure she'll take one for the team.
IF she doesn't spill the beans on others then she goes to jail for a looooooooooooong time.
Am I wrong but isn't that illegal itself.
(a small crime in the larger scheme of things, I realize, but is she that dumb?)
http://www.nndb.com/people/820/000058646/
(snip)
Rand Beers had a public service career spanning 25 years -- all the way back to the Reagan administration, where he was assigned to take over the terrorism and narcotics desk at the National Security Council following Oliver North. In October 1998, President Bill Clinton appointed Beers Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotic and Law Enforcement Affairs.
Beers was assigned to counterterrorism in the George W. Bush White House. He lasted seven months before resigning unexpectedly, which apparently worried his bosses:
The source said that the concern by the administration about low morale in the intelligence community led national security adviser Condoleezza Rice to ask Beers twice during an exit interview whether the resignation was a protest against the war with Iraq. The source said that although Beers insisted it was not, the tone of the interview concerned Rice enough that she felt she had to ask the question twice.
Then, two months after resigning from government, Beers joined the John Kerry campaign as a foreign policy advisor.
Taught a foreign policy class at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government with Richard A. Clarke in 2004.
PROMISE, PD? Please?
Rand R. Beers
That's why I left the name there. It rang a bell for me too.
MICHAEL J MCCARTHY Born May 1974 More Information
6825 WILSON LN Recorded: 08/14/2002
BETHESDA, MD 20817 (301) 320-2248
Here ya go, give him a call...lol
Former Aide Takes Aim at War on Terror
By Laura Blumenfeld
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 16, 2003; Page A01
Five days before the war began in Iraq, as President Bush prepared to raise the terrorism threat level to orange, a top White House counterterrorism adviser unlocked the steel door to his office, an intelligence vault secured by an electronic keypad, a combination lock and an alarm. He sat down and turned to his inbox.
"Things were dicey," said Rand Beers, recalling the stack of classified reports about plots to shoot, bomb, burn and poison Americans. He stared at the color-coded threats for five minutes. Then he called his wife: I'm quitting.
"Counterterrorism is like a team sport. . . . There has to be offense and defense," says Rand Beers. "The Bush administration is primarily offense."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A62941-2003Jun15?language=printer
Born May 1974? He's only 32?
Just tell me where to send the flowers.
and Beers resigned his National Security Council (NSC) position as special assistant to President George Walker Bush for combatting terrorism five days before the invasion of Iraq.[1] (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62941-2003Jun15.html?nav=hptop_tb)
Beers is described as a "lifelong bureaucrat, unassuming and tight-lipped until now. He is an unlikely insurgent. He served on the NSC under Presidents Ronald Reagan, George Herbert Walker Bush, Bill Clinton and the current Bush."
However, on June 16, 2003, "Eight weeks after leaving the Bush White House, he volunteered as national security adviser for Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.), a Democratic candidate for president, in a campaign to oust his former boss."[2] (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62941-2003Jun15.html?nav=hptop_tb)
"When asked about Beers, Sean McCormack, an NSC spokesman, said, 'At the time he submitted his resignation, he said he had decided to leave government. We thanked him for his three decades of government service.' McCormack declined to comment further."[3] (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62941-2003Jun15.html?nav=hptop_tb)
"However it was viewed inside the administration, onlookers saw it as a rare Washington event. 'I can't think of a single example in the last 30 years of a person who has done something so extreme,' said Paul C. Light, a scholar with the Brookings Institution. 'He's not just declaring that he's a Democrat. He's declaring that he's a Kerry Democrat, and the way he wants to make a difference in the world is to get his former boss out of office.'"[4]
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rand_Beers
Read the WP article I linked. You're exactly right about ole Rand Beers.
Back when this all hit the fan about Wilson/Plame .. I thought he was one of the leakers
But this story had taken so many twists and turns .. I wasn't sure who to think any more
Looks like she was buying some votes.........LOL.
OR that she had been promised a big job with a Kerry Administration.
What do you think?
My brain is on overload. Life is good.
LOL! Send flowers to EX-CIA AGENT
Sing Sing!
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