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.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

I would not get too excited. The bloodletting will happen on both sides. This is like chess. Pubbies that have any, shall we say indiscretions, will be trotted out. And there are many. That is the reason that this was put out on a Friday. One must be extremely careful about hurling stones inside the glass house. Else the illusion of reflection becomes refraction off of the shards that will remain.

[onyx]

Yes, but it was TOO special.
Different fellow.

[hipaatwo]

Don't know if this has been posted but: Here ya go. Now didn't Burgler steal national security docs?????

TEXT: BERGER APPOINTS MCCARTHY SPECIAL ASSISTANT FOR INTELLIGENCE

(And senior director on NSC Staff for intelligence programs) (370)



Washington -- National Security Advisor Samuel R. Berger announced
June 16 the appointment of Mary O'Neil McCarthy as Special Assistant
to the President and Senior Director for Intelligence Programs.


She succeeds Rand Beers in that post, an announcement by the office of
the White House Press Secretary said.


Mary McCarthy had been Director of Intelligence Programs on the
National Security Council Staff since July 1996. Previously, said the
White House, Mrs. McCarthy served as the National Intelligence Officer
for Warning from 1994-1996 and as the Deputy National Intelligence
Officer for Warning from 1991-1994. She began government service in
1984 as an analyst in the Directorate of Intelligence of the Central
Intelligence Agency.


McCarthy has a B.A. and M.A. in history from Michigan State University
and an M.A and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.

http://www.fas.org/irp/news/1998/06/98061701_tpo.html

[Mo1]

Gotta do it ... HAVE to .. this is an exciting Friday night ..

We need popcorn too

[onyx]

It wasn't 'put out' on Friday.
Porter Goss spoke yesterday.
This woman has admitted guilt and the DOJ has the case.

[IonInsights]

Being Bush loyalists is not as important as them not being DNC hacks

Over the short term -- yes; over the long term -- No. Not after today. Things can change.

[YaYa123]

and someone else found this:

http://opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?NumOfThou=0&txtName=mccarthy%2C+mary+o.&txtState=%28all+states%29&txtZip=&txtEmploy=&txtCand=&txt2006=Y&txt2004=Y&Order=N


Just tooooo cool!!

[Suzy Quzy]

Maybe the story today abour Mad Albright leg-pressing 400 pounds was a THREAT to her cabal pal Mary McCarthy!!!

[IonInsights]

Kennedy has "written" a book.

Yea, great timing on his book.

[SE Mom]

Keep slogging- this is one of the best FR threads in awhile! Lots of indutrious folks researching, and putting 2 + 2 together.

[onyx]

OMG! Can't get any cozier.

Berger, Rand and McCarthy.

[A Citizen Reporter]

"Washington -- National Security Advisor Samuel R. Berger announced June 16 the appointment of Mary O'Neil McCarthy as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Intelligence Programs.

Beautiful, just beautiful.

[altura]

Isn't ANYBODY gonna defend imbecilic scumbags from this slander?

[Txsleuth]

I have an unexpected guest for the night (my granddaughter)...which means I have no TV capability...and my computer time is more limited..

IF you hear anymore..or find any more great threads...could you ping me please??

Thanks

[Stentor]

I thought Krauthammer was exaggerating in his column The Generals' Dangerous Whispers (warning-link to compost). when he wrote "We've always had discontented officers in every war and in every period of our history. But they rarely coalesce into factions. That happens in places such as Hussein's Iraq, Pinochet's Chile or your run-of-the-mill banana republic. And when it does, outsiders (including the United States) do their best to exploit it, seeking out the dissident factions to either stage a coup or force the government to change policy."

Maybe not. This is all about faction.

[duckbutt]

I've been reading through this thread for the last couple of hours and man, youse guys are digging some stuff up! Is there someone who can, when he time comes, summarize all the connections there are and present them on a separate thread.

This is great stuff and again, FR is doing the job of the dinosaur media.....

cheers!

[altura]

How far is that from Ft. Marcy Park?

[Mo1]

Berger, Rand and McCarthy

I wonder if and what Berger coughed up in his plead deal?

[Timeout]

I haven't caught up yet, so this may have already been posted. "LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT" rang a bell with me, too. Here it is:

1992: Stephens Inc. employees give Clinton more than $100,000 for his presidential campiagn. The Worthen Bank gives him a $3.5 million line of credit allowing the cash-strapped candidate to finish the primaries.

Soraya and Arief Wiriadinata, the daughter and son-in-law of Lippo's co-founder, donate $450,000 to the DNC. Arief Wiriadinata came to the US from Indonesia allegedly to study landscape architecture -- although some accounts describe him simply as a gardener. At last reports Wiriadinata is now back home, working for Sea World Indonesia.

Of course! The "gardener" who donated 450 Bigs! My, how many other Clinton scandals have I forgotten?!