[Enchante]

It's some kind of Christmas right now, I'll say that.... though not exactly the FITZmas that the dirty 'Rats have been hoping for. Mary McCarthy is no small fry junior analyst, she has served at a very high level in the NSC as "National Intelligence Director" (probably directly under Sandy Burglar) and we have already seen that she has worked closely with the unctuous fraud Richard Clarke and also Rand Beers. Most recently she has been rather high up in the CIA's IG office, which means she has been one of a handful of the most trusted intel officials in this country. She has betrayed the CIA and her country and should get everything that's coming to her. I would not be averse to a little bit of a plea-bargain (only if necessary to really get at the other bad actors) if she truly spills her guts, but she still must serve serious time and she must spew out every 'Rat and media contact that has had anything to do with this disgraceful campaign against the elected government of the USA.

[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.