Posted on 04/23/2006 4:11:03 AM PDT by backhoe
Re Fenton:
OH! Now I get it! This is the guy who sets the agenda for the entire mainstream media!
What a bunch of whores they turn out to be. This chicken-little PR guy says black is white and they run a headline declaring colors are changing because of global warning!
I was JUST reading "The New McCarthyism" (ref'd in your post) and went surfing around- and found this:
http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA366.html
If you scroll down to footnote #4 you will see William Goodfellow as one of the signers of this petition. The petition (must reading anyway) is an effort to persuade the administration NOT to use the military to go after bin Laden. This was in SEPTEMBER, 2001, within days of the terrorist attacks.
It's infuriating to read- but informative now to realize Goodfellow (husband of Dana Priest for those of you in Rio Linda) put himself squarely against not just Iraq, but Afghanistan as well.
Many thanks for that link- it is just one illustration of what an incestuous, anti-American gaggle of goons we have uncovered. Yuk...
Thanks.
I got a ping on this great work by Backhoe, yesterday.
Backhoe may be our best indexer, and this may be his best yet.
Thanks Starwise!!
Great job!!! You know that Sandy Burglar is the one who appointed McTraitor during the Clinton admin.?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1619296/posts
"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."
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/173170.php
"She was not some minor flunky. She was a major officer at the CIA, holding a very high position in the National Intelligence Council, and all the while a strong political partisan.
She was one of the top apparatchik in the CIA's liberal-wing's war against the Bush Administration.
When Bush was warned away from divulging any information that would support the case for war in Iraq, this little partisan bitch was one of the people warning him he couldn't say anything in his own defense. And when he would give a CIA-approved narrow statement about Iraq, it was nasty little partisan hacks like her immediately leaking to the press that everything the President just said was a lie.
Except it wasn't a lie. It was the CIA consensus position on an issue. It's just that Kerry-supportin' Mary disagreed with it.
And why did the 9/11 Commission, despite powerful evidence, conclude with the fudged-up language that there was no "operational" partnership between Saddam and Al Qaeda? Because high CIA officials like McCarthy told the Democratic staffers she had their back and would leak like a sieve against any conclusion that allowed for some degree of cooperation between the two.
This is pretty big. The liberal cabal in the CIA just lost one of its top guns for subverting the government that nominally is in charge of it.
This, by the way, was a bit of a tip-off that she didn't really accept the whole "secret" part of the CIA's mission. From her 9/11 testimony:
The Congress, too, has a role in warning. Unlike other functions of democratic government, the conduct of intelligence is purposely-and with the consent of the public-carried out in secret, out of the view of public and without much public debate. Instead, Americans rely on their representatives in Congress to ensure that the intelligence function is performed, not only in a way that keeps us safe, but also in a way that is consistent with our democratic values.
Thus, the intelligence oversight committees have a heavy burden. Unlike other committees which regularly receive citizen input, and are assisted by the scrutiny of the public over "what the government is up to," the intelligence committees must depend on small staffs and input from the very agencies they are charged with overseeing.
And when Congress isn't holding Bush to account the way Mary McCarthy would like, she runs to the Washington Post to give the liberals in Congress the cover they need to go after him.
Dick Durbin wants to take on Bush over the prisons issues? Well, he can't, of course, at least not publicly. It's secret information, so Dick Durbin can't reveal it. He can argue about it behind closed doors, but what good does that do the liberals politically?
And so Mary McCarthy outs the information so that the Democrats can score their points without fear of being branded national-security leakers.
The game's up. You are now quite plainly out of your reckoning."
Bookmarked at the bottom of my homepage.
Thanks Howlin
Updates soon.
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/013857.php
We have been talking for several years about the covert war that elements of the federal bureaucracy, especially inside the CIA, have been waging against the Bush administration. Today, at NRO's The Corner, Andy McCarthy does an excellent job of placing recent revelations about CIA leaker Mary McCarthy's support for John Kerry and the Democratic Party in the context of that war:
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/006828.php
The New York Times reports that the Inspector General of the CIA, a position appointed by the President, submitted to polygraph testing in the wake of the leaks coming from the intelligence agency. John Helgerson, who supervised Mary McCarthy until the agency discovered that she leaked classified material to the media, experienced the awkward position of being cleared by the people who work for him: Comments (40) |
Hugh tells it like it is; & includes CQ in the mix.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/special_packages/sunday_review/14405781.htm
McCarthy sold out all Americans; plain & simple.
Here is some additional information on this story.
http://newsbusters.org/node/5048
Here's some more on the McCarthy - DNC connection.
http://www.theadventuresofchester.com/archives/2006/04/mary_mccarthy_t.html
RUSH LIMBAUGH LIVE THREAD MON APRIL 24TH 2006
Read the links here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1620498/posts?page=236#236
OK .. here are all the links .. it's big
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1620436/posts?page=197#197
Clinton Ignored CIA Opinion
He pardoned Navy analyst who leaked secret photos to media
Vernon Loeb, Washington Post
Sunday, February 18, 2001
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/02/18/MN46163.DTL
Well, if someone happens to write a short synopsis of what's going on, please ping me. 'Cause all I know at this point is that someone named "Mary" got a pink slip, and this somehow relates to what we've been saying all along - We need a new press. ;-) If I start scanning your thread to put it all together I'm afraid my deadlines will be missed. I can always catch up on it later. Thanks for everything you do.
Forgot to ask you something. I want to save this link for later. Does this thing have a name yet? I need a subtitle for my links page. McCarthygate?
Great googly moogly.
What a, you know, I can't think of a word stong enough for this.
Excellent job Backhoe.
Yes.......
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GWB: HBS MBA
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1070924/posts
The American Thinker February 3, 2004 | Thomas Lifson
*****
(snip) --
One final note on George W. Bush’s management style and his Harvard Business School background does not derive from the classroom, per se. One feature of life there is that a subculture of poker players exists. Poker is a natural fit with the inclinations, talents, and skills of many future entrepreneurs. A close reading of the odds, combined with the ability to out-psych the opposition, leads to capital accumulation in many fields, aside from the poker table.
By reputation, the President was a very avid and skillful poker player when he was an MBA student. One of the secrets of a successful poker player is to encourage your opponent to bet a lot of chips on a losing hand. This is a pattern of behavior one sees repeatedly in George W. Bush’s political career.
He is not one to loudly proclaim his strengths at the beginning of a campaign. Instead, he bides his time, does not respond forcefully, at least at first, to critiques from his enemies, no matter how loud and annoying they get. If anything, this apparent passivity only goads them into making their case more emphatically.
Nita, the keyword I used was "CIALEAKEREXPOSED" but the list seems to have taken on a life of its own!
Thanks for looking- it's a real den of vipers.
I have long maintained that my Dad taught me poker, just so he could beat me repeatedly.
Don't go up against a high-level poker player...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12466719/site/newsweek/
April 24, 2006 - A former CIA officer who was sacked last week after allegedly confessing to leaking secrets has denied she was the source of a controversial Washington Post story about alleged CIA secret detention operations in Eastern Europe, a friend of the operative told NEWSWEEK.
The fired official, Mary O. McCarthy, “categorically denies being the source of the leak,” one of McCarthy’s friends and former colleagues, Rand Beers, said Monday after speaking to McCarthy. Beers said he could not elaborate on this denial and McCarthy herself did not respond to a request for comment left by NEWSWEEK on her home answering machine. A national security advisor to Democratic Party candidate John Kerry during the 2004 presidential campaign, Beers worked as the head of intelligence programs on President Bill Clinton’s National Security Council staff and later served as a top deputy on counter-terrorism for President Bush in 2002 and 2003. McCarthy, a career CIA analyst, initially worked as a deputy to Beers on the NSC and later took over Beer’s role as the Clinton NSC’s top intelligence expert.
CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano re-affirmed on Monday that an agency official had been fired after acknowledging “unauthorized contacts with the media and discussion of classified information” with journalists. Gimigliano and other administration spokespersons said they were prohibited by law from disclosing the identity of the person who was fired. But government officials familiar with the matter confirmed to NEWSWEEK that McCarthy, a 20-year veteran of the CIA’s intelligence—or analytical— branch, was the individual in question.
The officials, who asked for anonymity because they were discussing sensitive information, said that McCarthy had been fired after allegedly confessing during the course of a leak investigation based heavily on polygraph examinations that she had engaged in unauthorized contacts with more than one journalist regarding more than one news story. The only journalist so far identified by government sources as one of the unauthorized persons with whom McCarthy admitted contact is Washington Post reporter Dana Priest, who last week won a Pulitzer Prize for revealing details of a secret airline and prison network that the CIA operates to detain and interrogate high-level Al Qaeda suspects.
Priest’s most contentious story, published by the Post last November, alleged that the CIA had been “hiding and interrogating some of its most important Al Qaeda captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe.” Even though the Post said it decided, in response to administration appeals, not to identify the Eastern European countries involved in secret CIA detention operations, intelligence officials said at the time that the story caused potentially serious damage to agency activities. The officials said the CIA would filing a “crime report” with the Justice Department regarding possible leaks of classified information. (Eric C. Grant, public affairs director of the Washington Post, says none of the paper’s reporters has been subpoenaed or talked to investigators in connection with this matter.)
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