NBC: CIA officer fired after admitting leak
Officer allegedly failed polygraph, admitted giving reporter information
BREAKING NEWS
By Robert Windrem and Andrea Mitchell
NBC News
Updated: 3:33 p.m. ET April 21, 2006
In a rare occurrence, the CIA fired an officer who acknowledged giving classified information to a reporter, NBC News reported on Thursday. The agency’s spokeswoman confirmed the firing.
The officer flunked a polygraph exam before being fired on Wednesday and is now under investigation by the Justice Department, NBC reported.
The leak pertained to stories on the CIA’s rumored secret prisons in Eastern Europe, sources told NBC. The information was allegedly provided to Dana Priest of the Washington Post, who wrote reports about CIA prisons in November 2005 and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize on Monday for her reporting.
Priest said she could not comment on the firing, which she said she learned about from NBC News.
This leak is not linked to the recent scandal in the CIA involving undercover agent Valerie Plame’s identity being revealed, NBC reported.
Separately, the Justice Department is investigating a New York Times stories about the National Security Agency’s domestic warrantless eavesdropping. Times reporter James Risen won a Pulitzer on Monday for his reporting on the issue.
The NSA and other agencies had requested the probe, sources told NBC.
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give the perp a choice: drop a dime on all the leakers to the dummies or life in the slammer. cooperate or rot in solitary like Pollard.
the National Security Agency’s domestic warrantless eavesdropping electronic surveillence program.
There, I that's better.
Thanks for the ping Howlin.
Several somebodies are screwed. They will not get the Sandy Berger treatment, because real Americans got hurt over this.
Thanks!