Who is Mary McCarthy? [The Great One, Mark Levin, weighs in...]

Well, as of this morning (Saturday) most of the big media don't care. They're fixated with the weather and gas prices — and anything else that will divert the public's attention from the stunning revelation that a Sandy Berger crony has apparently been leaking top-secret information from her high post at the CIA. The media will continue to downplay this story as they cover-up their own role in exposing our nation's secrets, including the supposed existence of CIA prisons in Europe. She'll be called a "whistleblower" and praised as some kind of patriot (a patriot, in the eyes of the media, is anybody who undermines this administration and the war effort by leaking national security secrets to them). They will downplay that McCarthy was a Clintonoid who somehow managed to land a top post at the CIA, ultimately winding up in the CIA's Inspector General's Office, from where she could monitor CIA internal investigations of, well, leaks, among other things.

The news spin, to the extent attention is being paid to this by the big media outlets, is that McCarthy's firing is unprecedented! Or it's Bush's fault! In one of the most absurd comments by any newsman anywhere, Newsbusters.org notes that Bob Schieffer of CBS Evening News asserted that “it is no secret that the current administration does not like its people hanging out with news reporters without permission” and he described the firing as “a first — a dubious first, to be sure.” Here. Is this guy for real?

If she leaked she must be charged. I wonder what Schieffer would say then? I suppose he would urge that she receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. After all, the Washington Post's Dana Priest, who apparently served as McCarthy's stenographer, was just awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

I must say, however, that the media's sickening hypocrisy knows no bounds. They came to the defense of Joe Wilson and his wife, Valerie Plame, who worked behind-the-scenes to get her husband that “fact-finding” trip to Niger. They demanded an investigation into who “leaked” Plame’s identity to Bob Novak — which ensnared their own reporters. They hoped they would critically wound the president, and they failed. Clearly Plame was not undercover and the revelation of her identity was not a crime. Lewis Libby now stands accused of lying about a crime that never occurred and the media think that’s a good thing.

Now comes Mary McCarthy, who apparently leaked real classified national-security secrets and the media largely dismiss it or defend it. They have no curiosity about McCarthy, the extent of her leaks, to whom she leaked (beyond Priest, did she leak to other reporters, members of Congress, other governments?), how she secured top security posts, and her ties to the Clinton administration. Surely there is every reason the government should pursue this investigation at least as vigorously as the Plame matter has been pursued. Dana Priest, among others, should have her day before a grand jury.

And watch the congressional Democrats follow the media’s lead. Long ago they put party and power above victory in this war. McCarthy’s ties to Clinton threaten to take attention from their unrelenting attack on the Bush administration and their claims of incompetence in the management of the war, which they see as their ticket to majority status in 2006.

Putting that aside, the discovery of McCarthy does make you wonder how many more of her ilk have squirreled themselves into the bureaucracy, from where they seek to undermine the country.

I was not talking about you - just commenting on the fact - that the human nature on FR and everywhere is to bemoan the fact that "gosh" Bush just does not get it done. While we just sit here and watch it all - same as our Republican elected representatives.

Do we ever see them get really mad and up in arms over this stuff? No, we do not. They are too busy being "friends" with the leakers.

I expect all Republicans to be up in arms on this. We elected a president and we just sit and watch as he is daily destroyed - and, we join in and complain about him not doing "something" to prevent all problems.

If we don't get off our duffs and continually cause an uproar over this stuff - we turn over our country. It is not Bush's fault - he is the target and gets little or no help from any of us. Me included as well as our "elected representatives".

I get tired of being on the warpath, I get overwhelmed and worried about the constant attacks from all sides - foreign, illegals, media, and in our government jobs.

Something had better change quick. We are seeing the dismantling of our country by the leakers, the cheats, the bribers, the liberal criminal friendly judges, the dems, the socialists and the "MEDIA".

And, our reaction? To sit here and post constantly about "Bush should have......, Bush did not......., Bush is to blame, Why did Bush not......".

Sure seems we could do a little better and demand better from our elected representatives.

But HOW? Surely we are smart enough to come up with something WE CAN DO. Surely someone is smart enough on here to see a way to counter the media, the dems, the liberals.

Please let me know if you hear about an answer.

Look at this. Back in December, Jack Wheeler thought that a CIA weasel leaked the intel to John McCain who then leaked it to the Washington Post. Hummmmmmmm. We may want to pursue this angle further.

The Rogue Weasels Club (John McCain and the CIA leakers)
To The Point ^ | December 16, 2005 | Dr. Jack Wheeler
Posted on 12/17/2005 1:32:49 PM EST by quidnunc
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1542427/posts

How upset are you over the CIA “secret prison scandal”? Maybe you said, “What scandal?”, or maybe you’ve glanced at stories about it carried in the back pages of your newspaper. Here in Europe, it’s the giant screaming front page headline story on every paper you pick up from England to Germany.

The Europeans are in a state of high emotional froth over CIA “renditions” of Moslem terrorists seized in one of their countries and taken to a “secret prison” in Poland or elsewhere. The Euroweenies are far more concerned with the “human rights” of the terrorists than they are about the threat of terrorists to kill them.

If you think all of this is just an excuse to bash the CIA and indulge in anti-Americanism, you’re right just as planned by the weasels.

Everyone on the right, it seems nowadays, from the editorials in the Wall Street Journal to conservative columnists like Mona Charen and bloggers like John Hinderacker, are issuing calls to “Investigate the CIA!” They have been suckered by the left.

They should instead be demanding, “Investigate the weasels, not the agency!” All of them have been accusing the CIA of conducting a covert war against the Bush Administration by leaking damaging classified information to leftwing journalists in the press. That the most damaging leak of all to date, the “secret prisons” story leaked to the Washington Post, is incredibly damaging to the CIA itself has not given them pause.

Why would the CIA conduct a covert war against itself? Because the agency is now being run by an ally of George Bush who is trying to root out left wing “rogue weasels” from its midst: Porter Goss.

You could call it, as some of the good guys at Langley are starting to, the Rogue Weasel Club. According to one member of the intel community, its members include:

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Quote:

This is the cabal of leftwing spooks Bush and Goss are up against, who are purposefully damaging the president with leaks to the press and folks in Congress who wish them ill. One of them is the culprit who leaked the “secret prison” story to John McCain, who in turn leaked it to the Washington Post.

They are the ones who should be investigated and it’s about time conservative critics of the CIA figured it out.

1 posted on 12/17/2005 1:32:49 PM EST by quidnunc
I think we need to post the list of Rogue Weasels here, in case something happens to the source. They are the ones who should be investigated – and it’s about time conservative critics of the CIA figured it out.

Signees to letter to Senator John McCain, December 9, 2005:

ROBERT BAER, former Case Officer, Directorate of Operations, CIA
VINCENT CANNISTRARO, former director of the CIA Counterterrorism Center
KATHLEEN CHRISTISON, former Analyst, Directorate of Intelligence, CIA
WILLIAM CHRISTISON, former National Intelligence Officer and Director, Office of Regional & Political Analysis, CIA
RICHARD CLARKE, former advisor, National Security Council
RAY CLOSE, former Chief of Station Officer, CIA
VICKI DIVOLL, former Assistant General Counsel, CIA
GRAHAM FULLER, former Vice-Chairman of the National Intelligence Council, CIA
MELVIN A. GOODMAN, former Analyst, Directorate of Intelligence, CIA
PHILIP GIRALDI, former Case Officer, Directorate of Operations, CIA
MICHAEL GRIMALDI, former Analyst, Directorate of Intelligence, CIA
RALPH M. HOCKLEY, Col. USA (ret), former intelligence officer
ARTHUR S. HULNICK, former intelligence officer, US Air Force, former CIA
LARRY C. JOHNSON, former Analyst, Directorate of Intelligence, CIA
EDWARD R. M. KANE, former Chief of Station, CIA
CAMERON LA CLAIR, former Executive Officer of Area Division, CIA
W. PATRICK LANG, Col. USA (ret), Chief of DIA Middle East Division, Director Defense Humint Services
LYNNE A. LARKIN, former Case Officer, Directorate of Operations, CIA
DAVID MACMICHAEL, former National Intelligence Council officer, CIA
TOM MAERTENS, former analyst, Intelligence and Research, Department of State
EUGENE A. MANNING, former Analyst, Office of National Estimates, Directorate of Intelligence, and Counterintelligence Center, CIA
JAMES MARCINKOWSKI, former Case Officer, Directorate of Operations, CIA
JOHN E. MARSH, former Case Officer, Directorate of Operations, CIA
RICHARD MCDERMOTT, former Army Counterintelligence Special Agent
RAY MCGOVERN, former Analyst, Directorate of Intelligence, CIA
DAVID RUPP, former Case Officer, Directorate of Operations, CIA
GARETH A. SHELLMAN, former intelligence analyst, U.S. Army Security Agency
JOHN P. SONTAG, former intelligence analyst, CIA and Department of State
LEWIS R. SORLEY, former Director, National Intelligence Emergency Support Office, CIA
ROBERT DAVID STEELE VIVAS, former clandestine officer, CIA
STANSFIELD TURNER, former Director of Central Intelligence
AMB. (RET) PHILIP C. WILCOX, JR., former Ambassador at Large for Counter Terrorism at Department of State
AUSTIN YAMADA, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Combating Terrorism

13 posted on 12/17/2005 2:04:13 PM EST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)

Mary O. McCarthy's name would probably also be on the above list if she had been a "former" CIA analyst.

I suspect other more pressing issues than personnel management...consumed this administration's time.

Bush's first great push was to be filling his cabinet...that took the first 2 months of his administration. Gore's stalling in Florida over the election 2000 consumed half of the customary transition time new Presidents have before the inauguration.

Then, in March-April, Pres Bush went into full court press on tax relief so that checks would go out by July. This to head off gathering storm clouds of recession.

Remember that our P-3 was downed and naval crew imprisoned by China 4 months after Bush took office. A significant foreign policy crisis, at least in pre-911 ordinary days.

Meanwhile, through the first months of the administration, the bitter democrats, who controlled the Senate, used every "guerrilla tactic" they could to hamstring every appointment, every decision of the Bush adminstration.

The Congress essentially "shuts down" for mid-July/August ... so much for approving new high level administration picks. The Bush team soldiered on with pretty much the same mid-low bureaucracy that had served the Clinton cabinet.

Furthermore, recall all the quite decent efforts Pres Bush made to be fair and inclusive and to make one team out of democrats and republicans, to reach out to democrats, to heal the election 200 division. Remember Bush attending the democrat congressional retreat at Green Brier? Ted the Swimmer being invited to the White House with the Kennedy clan to watch movies and to take credit for co-sponsored legislation on education.

Naivete on Pres Bush's part....to think that Congress and people working in the government (even political appointees)actually perceived that they served a nation, not a political party.

Then of course...there was 9-11 and the USA changed. President Bush changed, the structure of government changed. Our foreign policy priorities changed.

Yes. The moles and 'rats appointed by a far different man and far different set of his "advisors"...have survived far too long in their little fiefdoms pursuing their personal vendettas. May their names and faces now be exposed.

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