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CIA Leak, Mary McCarthy Link Roundup
various FR links & quotes | 04-23-06 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

Posted on 04/23/2006 4:11:03 AM PDT by backhoe

The original mega-thread:
CIA Fires Officer For Leaking Classified Information to Media
I think this is as big as rathergate.   Dana Priest's Pulitzer has just turned to dust. Not only that,  the Pulitzer's are finally dust themselves...it is up to us and others to find out, because  the Drive-By Media will ignore the story.
Let's Play Connect the Dots

Let’s connect some dots in the Mary McCarthy CIA leak tale, shall we? (Hat tip: WordWarp).

Mary McCarthy leaks the secret CIA prisons story to Dana Priest, in what may have been a sting operation.

Mary McCarthy and Joe Wilson served at the NSC together at the same time, both with African portfolios.

Does Dana Priest’s Husband Get Joe Wilson Media Gigs?

Did Mary McCarthy Send Joe Wilson To Niger?

 Let's not forget that Mary McCarthy was appointed by ol' docs-in-socks himself, Sandy Berger.

In From the Cold Scroll down and read how high Mary McCarthy really *was*

I found an old site in which a Charles Allen spoke at Harvard all about Open Source intelligence and in it he mentioned Mary McCarthy and her views that were similar to his here.

Just go to this site. It's bigger than you think.

 Read this.

Michelle Malkin has a little piece on this on her blog but also she links to this piece from NRO with has more information on 'who is Mary McCarthy?' and her connections to Sandy "Sox" Berger.

http://levin.nationa...

Here's the piece from Michelle Malkin's blog which also speculates on whether or not Mary McCarthy was the one who got Joe Wilson the Niger trip:

http://michellemalki...

Look what I found on the web while surfing through links provided to other links: A PR announcement that Sandy Berger appointed Mary McCarthy:

http://www.fas.org/i...

#77 realwest  4/22/2006 07:14PM PDT
 

So lemme see if I have this straight so far:
We have Mary Mcarthy who was appointed by Clinton
We have Sandy Berger who was appointed by Clinton
We have the real Joe Wilson, who was appointed to some African nation and then Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council by Clinton
We have Valerie Plame Joe Wilson's wife, who joined the CIA while Clinton was president
and we have Dana Priestly who got her information from the aforesaid Mary Mcarthy,
and we have William Goodfellow, husband of Dana Priestly who gets Joe Wilson speaking engagements.
Tom Clancy eat your heart out.

 
 
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/013834.php
Selective Leaking

Tom Joscelyn brilliantly lays out a prior instance in which CIA agent Mary McCarthy, the leaker just fired from the CIA, entered the public record: her involvement in the bombing of al-Shifa, one of the targets in Sudan that the Clinton adminstration attacked in 1998.

http://www.instapundit.com/

TOM MAGUIRE: "The NY Times seems to think the political contributions of the sacked CIA officer are significant, but their investigative skills are apparently a bit rusty, since they are about $7,500 light in their reporting."

UPDATE: Lots of bloggers are jumping on this story: More here, here, and a big roundup here.

I'm pretty sure I know what the talk-radio folks will be talking about next week.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Still more here.

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/005048.htm

MARY MCCARTHY AND JOE WILSON?
By Michelle Malkin   ·   April 22, 2006 01:19 PM

Ace of Spades asks:

Did Mary McCarthy Approve Joe Wilson's Trip to Niger?

Curt at Flopping Aces points to a F/R commenter, Timeout, noting some interesting portfolio overlap:

Mark Levin weighs in.

***

Previous:

CIA leaker fired

A Pulitzer for a False Story

Washington Post journalist Dana Priest won a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on the “CIA secret prisons” story; in this interview the “prisons” are described as “gulags” and Priest seems to have no problem with it: Dana Priest on secret gulags, CIA and war. (Hat tip: Doss.)

Now that an EU investigation has found no evidence of illegal CIA action, will her Pulitzer be revoked—since the story for which it was awarded was false?

Don’t hold your breath.

But this time the McCarthy is waving a list of known... patriots.

link: 107 comments

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1619050/posts?page=1815#1815...re: Wm. Goodfellow's CIP, VERY deeply involved in far-left anti_Iraq War activism:

 http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=14893

Dana Priest’s Husband Gets Joe Wilson Media Gigs--Pulitzer Prize winning Dana Priest is married to William Goodfellow. William Goodfellow is the Executive Director of the the Center for International Policy (CIP).

Schieffer Denounces “Dubious First” Firing of (CIA) Leaker (Mary McCarthy's picture)

'Post' Editor Hits 'Criminalization' of Leaks to Media Len Downie

Mary McCarthy Replaced Rand Beers, The Kerry Advisor (The Big Lib Conspiracy)

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2006/04/leaks_and_the_l.html

Leaks and the Leakers that Leak them

CIA FIRES OFFICER  MARY McCARTHY OVER ALLEGED LEAK

This is an egregious crime. It was operational, not just classified info. She put lives in danger, c**t. She disclosed top secret information. Jail time is too kind. Think about it.

Piece of advise for the Bushies...............FIRE ANY ONE THAT WORKED UNDER THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION, I mean really.

Strata-sphere has the straight dope here, an incredible post actually.
The latest fired CIA employee is Mary McCarthy, (one of many to come, I understand, apparently the Department of Justice said they have DOZENS of leak investigations ongoing);

Until July 2001, she served as special assistant to the president and senior director for intelligence programs on the National Security Council (NSC) Staff, under both Presidents Clinton and Bush. More here hat tip x-dhimmi

Over at Lucianne, THE SECRET WAR AGAINST PRESIDENT BUSH

Excellent complete overview over at Flopping Aces here, and important read;

... Dana Priest, who also won the George Polk Award and a prize from the Overseas Press Club this week for her articles, declined to comment Friday.  She apparently came to the defense of Richard Clarke once. If she is one in the same, this person has betrayed a lot of people with her actions.  More here...and Flopping Aces points out, lest we not forget what Porter Goss said;

Porter Goss told the Senate that these leaks had damaged our intelligence gathering capability and in so doing our national security:

  Clear And Present found this nugget:   Comments (2)

Wilsongate: Motive, Means, and Opportunity

From my files:

Wilson (as Ambassador to Gabon) had/has connections to the Gabon Chief of State, Omar Bongo, who was the chief African ally of the French oil company TotalFinaElf, a major beneficiary of the Oil-for-Food bribes. Prior to the Iraq War, they had a contract with Saddam's regime worth an estimated 12.5 to 27.0 billion barrels of oil reserves. Also he had connections via the Middle East Institute and Rock Creek, both of which are Saudi controlled.

Wilson's wife Jacqueline was also apparently a lobbyist for Bongo and it seems Wilson was pretty chummy with Saddam's weapons buyer, having dinner with him on the eve that Kuwait was invaded in 1990. She is now an advisor to Bongo, her picture from a 2005 conference can be found here That makes it very clear that there are connections to oil-for-food. No wonder Wilson can afford his lifestyle.

Source: Posts 21 and 22

The French Connection

What Wilson Didn’t Say About Africa

Cannistraro worked directly with Clarridge during Iran Contra

73 posted on 11/22/2005 11:27:52 AM EST by ravingnutter

I have posted all the links that my eyes would let me so we can have a running list. Please feel free to add any others that you come across in the comments section.
http://chickenhawkexpress.blogspot.com/2006/04/leakers-and-liars-massive-amount-of.html


Mary McCarthy Links:
Center for Law and Security
9/11 Commission Testimony
Intelligence officials warn of security risks
Free Republic -Fired CIA Leaker Gave To Kerry And The DNC
Captains Quarters Blog -A Sting Operation?
OSS CEO Praises Mary McCarthy, Calls for Censure of DNI & DCI
Strata-Sphere Blog - CIA Leaker Leaked Multiple Times
Free Republic - Schieffer Denounces “Dubious First” Firing of (CIA) Leaker (Mary McCarthy's picture)
Details, Details
The Firing of Mary McCarthy by Larry Johnson
RightWinged.com - CIA Officer Fired: Clinton's Senior Director Of Intel Programs, Kerry Supporter
Lawhawk blog -Cronyism at the CIA?
Global Security - Statement of Mary O. McCarthy before the National Commission Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
Mary McCarthy - CSIS
CIA Organizational Chart
Knight Center for Specialized Journalism Seminar Fellowships -Seminar for Editorial Writers topic -Who is Winning the War on Terror?
Flopping Aces - The Democrat Mole in the CIA is Fired
NeverYetMelted Blog -Who is Mary O. McCarthy?
NYT - Colleagues Say C.I.A. Analyst Played by Rules
Mark Levin - Who is Mary McCarthy?
Ace of Spades HQ - Did Mary McCarthy Send Joe Wilson To Niger?

Dana Priest Info
Bio
Covert Intelligence
Ace of Spades HQ - Dana Priest - High Paid Stenographer
Whose Side Is the Post On? Or Better Yet, Whose Side is the CIA on
Powerline Blog - Dana Priest's Global Show N-Tell

William Goodfellow Info
Washington Peace Center Activist Guide
CIP
Latin America Working Group – William Goodfellow

MISC
Michigan News -Senators Rockefeller and Durbin May Take Polygraph Tests
John Gibson - The Secret War Against President Bush
Sweetness-Light - Only Leak to Help our Enemies
NeverYetMelted - VIPS - Politics, The Plame Game, War on Terror, CIA Leaks
The New American -Security Risk for CIA
Fox News - Ex CIA Accuse Bush of Manipulating Iraq Evidence
Free Republic - More Wilson Meltdown (Lying Larry Johnson from VIPS Sounds Worried)
All Things Beautiful Blog -Regaining Control of the White House Press Room
Multiple Articles
Insight on the News - The Smear Campaign; Left-wingers have poured money into Bush-hating "527" groups, which straddle a fine line in an all-out effort to defeat the president
Democracy Now - NYT Exposes Cheney's Role in CIA Leak: Cheney Identifies Wilson's Wife as CIA Operative

NIGERGATE: BUSH DIDN’T LIE TO THE AMERICANS REGARDING URANIUM FROM AFRICA

============================================

Reference:

The Uranium Files- Iraq, Mr. Bush... and more-

Yes, Down My Pants. Oh, Like You Haven't? The Sordid Sandburglar Story

============================================

The Secret War Against President Bush (John Gibson)
 
Who is Mary McCarthy? [The Great One, Mark Levin, weighs in...]--Well, as of this morning (Saturday) most of the drive-by 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 blogs are all over it. See Ace of Spades HQ and follow the links. The bloggers are reporting that the WaPo is carrying a story in Sunday's edition indicating that the investigation by the FBI is widespread, and that Rockefeller and Durbin and their staffs will be asked to take polygraphs, and that reporters who published the leaks may be subject to prosecution.
 
Rockefeller, Durbin To Take Polygraphs! [The REAL "Culture of Corruption"...!]
 
CIA officer fired after admitting leak, (Mary NcCarthy named in this article)
Related links:
 
Would you believe she was also on the NSC during the same period, and with the same portfolio (Africa), as... JOE F'N' WILSON?
http://www.floppingaces.net/ 
 
 

http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/003872.html

Mary McCarthy Identified As CIA Leaker

The identity of the CIA leaker fired for passing classified information to Washington Post writer Dana Priest has been revealed.

The officer flunked a polygraph exam before being fired on Thursday and is now under investigation by the Justice Department, NBC has learned.

Intelligence sources tell NBC News the accused officer, Mary McCarthy, worked in the CIA's inspector general's office and had worked for the National Security Council under the Clinton and and George W. Bush administrations.

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 about CIA prisons in November and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize on Monday for her reporting.

Sources said the CIA believes McCarthy had more than a dozen unauthorized contacts with Priest. Information about subjects other than the prisons may have been leaked as well.

The sleuthing has begun ;

The report of the 9/11 Commission notes that the National Security staff reviewed the intelligence in April 2000 and concluded that the CIA's assessment of its intelligence on bin Laden and al-Shifa had been valid; the memo to Clinton on this was cosigned by Richard Clarke and Mary McCarthy, the NSC senior director for intelligence programs, who opposed the bombing of al-Shifa in 1998


Ace has pulled up the campaign contributions. No surprises there.

Posted by Kate at 01:21 AM | Comments (3)  Here's a link to the campaign donations:  CIA leaker a big Democratic donor.
 
The Wayback Machine 6/17/98: BERGER APPOINTS MCCARTHY SPECIAL ASSISTANT FOR INTELLIGENCE--

Total for this search: $7,900

Contributor

Occupation

Date

Amount

Recipient

MCCARTHY, MARY
BETHESDA,MD 20817

US GOVERNMENT/ANALYST

10/29/2004

$500

DNC Services Corp

MCCARTHY, MARY
BETHESDA,MD 20817

U.S. GOVERNMENT/CIVAL SERVANT

11/1/2002

$200

Andreasen, Steven Peter

MCCARTHY, MARY J
BETHESDA,MD 20816

RETIRED/RETIRED

7/16/2002

$200

Morella, Connie

MCCARTHY, MARY O
BETHESDA,MD 20817

CENTER FOR STRATEGIC & INTERNATIONA

10/5/2004

$5,000

Democratic Party of Ohio

MCCARTHY, MARY O
BETHESDA,MD 20817

U.S. GOVERNMENT/ANALYST

3/14/2004

$2,000

Kerry, John

Mary O. McCarthy - Visiting Fellow, International Security Program--CSIS pulled McClarty's "Expert" bio off their web site!! That was swift; CSIS must hit FR for their news! But I did find some cache.

War, media and politics

One of today's big news items is the dismissal of a person at Central Intelligence for leaking classified material to Washington Post Pulitzer Prize winner Dana Priest. Pajamas Media has a really big blog roundup. Some of the choice items.

Captain’s Quarters: Plugging the Leak says: In From the Cold comments:  Strata-sphere  Big Lizard: Story on the leaker leaked to the press -- That's how ingrained the practice is. You have to leak about the leak.  22 comments links to this post

Interesting to see who the CIA leaker is.



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To: Just mythoughts
Gardening is good to take my mind off this for a time.

Me & my old dog are going around the porch this morning, nailing down planks the weather loosened this winter.

It's good to get down, hammer and sweat, and feel the Sun and wind. Sometimes, if we sit still, the wild birds will draw near and fix us with that one-eyed bird gaze, "Hmmm, the Terrible Two Leg and Wolf!"

301 posted on 04/26/2006 3:22:48 AM PDT by backhoe (-30-)
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To: backhoe

LOL, my creatures are not in the least afraid of me, from the moles to the deer they come and go on their own terms.


302 posted on 04/26/2006 4:15:43 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Txsleuth

HOLY @#*&...that's an amazing thing to read with my first cuppa!


303 posted on 04/26/2006 4:29:29 AM PDT by SE Mom (God Bless those who serve..)
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Our Rotten IntelligenCIA (On the Media's Double Leak Standard and CIA Undermining of Bush)--When the impeachment process of our President begins in a few months, many will be far more than sick to their stomachs, they will be eating them. Keep your powder dry....you might actually need it.
 
Flowchart For McCarthy-Priest-Goodfellow-Et Alia
 
Flowchart For McCarthy-Priest-Goodfellow Et Alia

A flowchart, based on what we know to date, courtesy of FrontPage Magazine’s Jennifer Verner:

 

DNC May Set Up McCarthy Legal Defense Fund

CIA — Contempt In Action?

To: All

Some refresher threads on Larry Johnson:

CIA 'Expert' Larry Johnson: "Plame Undercover For Three Decades"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1451694/posts

Flashback: "Intelligence Analyst" Larry C. Johnson: "The Declining Terrorist Threat (July 10, 2001)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1447248/posts

'Terrorist Expert' Larry Johnson's Frontline Interview About Bin Ladin (2000)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1451559/posts

Ex CIA Larry Johnson: Terrorism Isn't A Threat, But Big Tobacco Is!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1448666/posts

Larry Johnson, Daniel Ellsberg & The Truth Telling Project --Pleading For Intel Leaks
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1451334/posts

Larry Johnson's Group (VIPS) Called On CIA Employees To Leak Secrets To Hurt Bush
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1450548/posts

Is Ex-CIA Agent Larry C. Johnson Threatening A Freeper?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1450846/posts?page=58

And, what the heck, Phillip Agee, too:

Former CIA Agent Phillip Agee On the Wilson Affair (The Traitor And Murderer Opines)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1442831/posts

35 posted on 04/26/2006 4:07:03 PM EDT by Sam Hill

So why this circus?Sources: Rove meets with attorneys regarding CIA leak investigation


304 posted on 04/26/2006 4:24:14 PM PDT by backhoe (-30-)
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To: backhoe
Great post, man.

Bump!
305 posted on 04/26/2006 4:27:26 PM PDT by cgbg (Should traitors live long enough to have book deals?)
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To: cgbg

I appreciate your looking.


306 posted on 04/26/2006 4:31:46 PM PDT by backhoe (-30-)
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Murray Waas Supports Mac Ranger (Leak-gate)
307 posted on 04/27/2006 2:49:48 AM PDT by backhoe (-30-)
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To: backhoe

Thank you so much for finding that summary. Now I have a good idea of what's going on!


308 posted on 04/27/2006 10:56:23 AM PDT by Nita Nupress (If Jack Bauer can carry a manpurse, then so can you.)
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To: Txsleuth; SE Mom
Murray Waas, of all people. What a hypocritical Clymer. As you most likely already know, he himself was the recipient of a 20,000-page CIA "document dump"in 1998 -- a leak from someone inside the CIA who thought Clinton's foreign intelligence policy was dangerous to the country and should be exposed.

Murray, while you're ranting and raving about how McCarthy's "legitimate and even inadvertent contacts with journalists" (yes, he actually said that), why don't we revisit your own CIA leaker?


"Waas" up?! Where are those 20,000 CIA documents? ^

Posted by Nita Nupress
On News/Activism ^ 08/22/2005 5:47:05 AM CDT · 60 replies · 3,545+ views


The Black Hole of Cyberspace | TUE NOV 24 1998 | Matt Drudge
DRUDGE REPORTTUE NOV 24 1998 23:52:09 UTC WHITE HOUSE PANIC; MASSIVE LEAK OF NATIONAL SECURITY DOCUMENTS **World Exclusive* WASHINGTON -- The Clinton administration is facing the most massive leak of classified foreign policy documents since the publication of the Pentagon papers more than two decades ago during the Vietnam war, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. "The impeachment proceedings are going to have seemed like a picnic, before we get though with this," said one White House official. The papers, totaling more than 20,000 pages, according to sources who have read them, include a history of the secret negotiations between the U.S. and North Korea, describing the failed policy of trying to buy off North Korea to forego its nuclear weapons policy. They describe in great detail the intelligence and policy failures that led to the detonations of nuclear weapons by India and Pakistan this year.

Most embarrassing, the papers appear to corroborate, according to sources who have read them, allegations by a former U.N. arms inspector that the Clinton administration concealed from Congress and the public details regarding Saddam Hussein's ambitious program to develop nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons.

The papers also reveal new details on the Clinton policy towards China in which the White House allowed ballistic missile technology exports to China at the behest of wealthy Democratic campaign contributors.

News of the massive leak of classified foreign policy documents caught senior White House officials by surprise on the eve of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend... MORE

Two Washington newspaper editors have reviewed the papers, which have been obtained by left-wing reporter Murray Waas.

Waas has been holding the documents close, according to one media insider. Some in Washington speculate that Waas does not want to write a major expose about the Clinton administration in the midst of the impeachment hearings, fueling the flames for conservatives.

The new leaks appear to be indicative of deep dissatisfaction within the foreign policy establishment regarding Clinton policies.

There have been other unprecedented leaks as well: most notably, a James Risen story in the NEW YORK TIMES earlier this week about the disregarding of a CIA assessment of Russian corruption by Vice President Al Gore. Some see an organized attempt by dissidents to discredit the Clinton foreign policy.

Ironically, the Clinton White House might have a hard time attacking one of their favorite reporters: During the 1992 presidential campaign, both Clinton and Gore often praised Waas exclusives exposing the Bush administration's Iraq policy, which involved the leaks of thousands of pages of classified papers regarding the Gulf war. "


Murray, you were all over the Valerie Plame leak. Now you're all over the Mary McCarthy leak case. How quaint.

Where were your public calls for 'justice-for-leakers' back in 1998 when someone in the CIA gave you an early Christmas present? After all, your own CIA leaker was obviously someone who was against your boy Clinton (and obviously didn't realize you were a Clinton sycophant). Why didn't you persue that case? And where is your own CIA leaker now? What ever happened to him or her?

Didn't you think your leaker should have been held accountable? Since you defended Clinton throughout his eight long years of criminal activity, it seems like you would have loved to see your CIA leaker go down for leaking incriminating evidence. No? At the very least, shouldn't your CIA leaker have lost his or her big, fat CIA pension? Where were your calls for legal prosecution?

More importantly, Murray, where are those 20,000 CIA documents now?

309 posted on 04/27/2006 11:56:07 AM PDT by Nita Nupress (If Jack Bauer can carry a manpurse, then so can you.)
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To: Nita Nupress

"Most embarrassing, the papers appear to corroborate, according to sources who have read them, allegations by a former U.N. arms inspector that the Clinton administration concealed from Congress and the public details regarding Saddam Hussein's ambitious program to develop nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons."


310 posted on 04/27/2006 11:59:31 AM PDT by Nita Nupress (If Jack Bauer can carry a manpurse, then so can you.)
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To: Nita Nupress

WOW...thanks for posting that....I was still "apolitical" back then..and didn't know about this.


311 posted on 04/27/2006 12:01:31 PM PDT by Txsleuth (...)
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To: Nita Nupress

"pursue"

I REALLY need to start using that spell-checker.


312 posted on 04/27/2006 12:02:19 PM PDT by Nita Nupress (If Jack Bauer can carry a manpurse, then so can you.)
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To: Nita Nupress

313 posted on 04/27/2006 12:14:24 PM PDT by backhoe (-30-)
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To: All
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/013894.php
Four years of the condor

A.J. Strata notes the sudden ubiquity of former CIA agents seeking to take out the Bush administration: "More rogue CIA agents in the media." A.J. writes:

If I was the paranoid kind, I would think ex-CIA agents and NSC members are trying to instigate a bloodless coup d’etat. I am not there yet. But with McCarthy’s firing as the first publicized peron caught (or should we say confessing) to discussing classified matters with reporters without authorization (is that accurately worded so McCarthy lawyer Cobb can’t pull a clinton-esque spin job?) it is interesting to see who is coming out and about in the media...
John and I have been writing on matters related to A.J.'s post for a while. I devoted a Standard column to the subject in "Three years of the Condor." John took it up in his Standard column "Leaking at all costs."

UPDATE: A.J. backpedals a bit in a major update/addendum that now leads the post.

Media Whines "No Fair" to Leak Investigations


314 posted on 04/27/2006 12:25:37 PM PDT by backhoe (-30-)
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To: Nita Nupress

Well, well, well...you just never know, do you?

Thanks for the ping.


315 posted on 04/27/2006 12:37:09 PM PDT by SE Mom (God Bless those who serve..)
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The Wilson, Rockefeller, & McCarthy Ties--Very interesting stuff going on in the Mary McCarthy files. It appears many of us missed a few important connections: One aspect of her background so far comparatively unexamined is her West African uranium connection. She served in a key government position concerned with West African nations producing yellowcake uranium at the same time that Joseph Wilson was working in the area. During his time in Gabon, Wilson must have been deeply knowledgeable about uranium production and trade there, and must have been familiar with officials of the French energy giant COGEMA, now consolidated into the French Areva Group, a firm closely involved with the French government which appoints members of its board. Joe Wilson has his own French connection. Speaking of dealing in commodities, this whole affair brings us back to square one and Mary McCarthy. One of her previous employerswas Beri, SA. Possibly by coincidence Beri provides a Mineral Extraction Risk Assessment service...Could the Wilson-McCarthy-Africa connection may indicate another instance of US intelligence and Foreign Service personnel taking advantage of regulatory loopholes and lax security in third world countries for personal gain? Macranger, the former intelligence official, believes he knows what is coming next: In the coming days you will see why Senator Rockefeller HAD to make such an emergency visit to Syria in 2002. For a little tip, read here.

Plumbing the depths of Anthony Lake's dubious past;

http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1997/vo13no02/vo13no02_lake.htm
Nixon Believed that there were three suspects in Leaking the Pentagon Papers (from on of his famous tapes) Leslie Gelb, Morton Halperin and Anthony Lake.

http://www.newamericanstrategies.org/

All of the connections are here.

54 posted on 04/27/2006 2:38:06 AM EDT by bessay

http://www.instapundit.com/

 --The story now has everyone's attention due to the Mary O. McCarthy story. It blasted out the headline: CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons!--  DAN RIEHL says that Dana Priest was channeling 2002 in 2005.   As I said in an earlier post on the issue: let's go back to the start.  Also keep in mind that many countries and the EU have investigated this and claim there were no such international facilities. Whether that is true or not is debatable. But the WaPo entirely ignored, not only their own 2002 story but any subsequent criticism and denial, as well. The Thai PM also called for a retraction in late 2005, which went largely unnoticed by the MSM in the US.  And just as a matter of curiosity, why is it that the above article is no longer available at the Washington Post on line? Archiving, most likely. At least I hope so. Fortunately, a web site archived the article, as did others -

Was That 2005 Dana Priest Story A Fraud? from Hyscience
Could it be that we've all been had by the WaPo?

Dana Priest, Mary McCarthy: Delibertate Effort To from Sigmund, Carl, And Alfred

Mapping McCarthy, continued from protein wisdom
Even as National Democrats are making noises about instituting impeachment proceedings against President Bush (and perhaps even VP Cheney), and more former intel personnel spin their CYA stories for a (thus far) compliant and helpful media (on &quot... [Read More]

The McCarthy Story Grows from Small Town Veteran
Curt at Flopping Aces continues to stay right on top of the McCarthy leak story. Read his latest update here. *** Don't miss Allahpundit's post here or Dan Riehl's here. [Read More]

Dana Priest Responds to Criticism of Secret Prisons Story


316 posted on 04/28/2006 3:15:14 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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To: All
The Yellowcake Connection
317 posted on 04/28/2006 3:17:49 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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To: backhoe
The further you look, the worse it gets.

Ain't it the truth.

Last night, after watching Brit & the Panel, I clicked to 'Hardbowel' to see things 'as they really aren't'. 'Spits' Matthews had an 'update' on the CIA Leak Story!

No... it wasn't about Mary McCarthy... it was more of the same hypothicizing on whether or not Karl Rove was to be indicted.

The bullsh_t never stops... it's a daily cycle. Network DNC/hacks respinning the spin in the evening... that was spinned by the print DNC/hacks in the morning.

318 posted on 04/28/2006 3:46:25 AM PDT by johnny7 (“Nah, I ain’t Jewish, I just don’t dig on swine, that’s all.”)
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Last night, after watching Brit & the Panel, I clicked to 'Hardbowel' to see things 'as they really aren't'. 'Spits' Matthews had an 'update' on the CIA Leak Story! No... it wasn't about Mary McCarthy... it was more of the same hypothicizing on whether or not Karl Rove was to be indicted. The bullsh_t never stops... it's a daily cycle. Network DNC/hacks respinning the spin in the evening... that was spinned by the print DNC/hacks in the morning.

The astonishingly low quality of reportage by the Drive-By Media continues to amaze, and depress me.

Journalism, particularly the television variety, has become a bizzare amalgam of Max Headroom and Mad Max...
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they are never at a loss for words, but their words hardly ever mean anything useful or informative.

It's all memes, talking points and chatter used to fit a template.

319 posted on 04/28/2006 4:00:16 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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Mr Dana Priest-Goodfellow’s Political Connections
320 posted on 05/01/2006 4:46:33 AM PDT by backhoe (-30-)
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