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From Sweetness-Light
"Mary McCarthy’s Peculiar Defenders April 23rd, 2006
On ABC’s This Week With George Stephanopoulos, former fellow CIA analyst, Ray McGovern said:
"This a matter of principle where she said my oath, my promise not to reveal secrets is superseded by my oath to defend the constitution of the U.S."
This vouchsafing had been preceded by this article in the Washington Post: Sunday, April 23, 2006 By R. Jeffrey Smith and Dafna Linzer
"Moe" Johnson
Larry Johnson, a former State Department counterterrorism expert who worked briefly for McCarthy at the CIA in 1988, said Saturday that if McCarthy was really involved in leaks, she may have concluded that the investigation was “a whitewash, and why not tell the press?
… I am struck by the irony that Mary McCarthy may have been fired for blowing the whistle and ensuring the truth about an abuse was told to the American people.”
The Post article was cued when the mother ship of our one party media, the New York Times, posted this defense of Mary McCarthy:
Colleagues Say C.I.A. Analyst Played by the Rules By David S. Cloud April 23, 2006
Larry Johnson, a former C.I.A. officer who worked for Ms. McCarthy in the agency’s Latin America section, said, "It looks to me like Mary is being used as a sacrificial lamb."
But who are Ray McGovern and Larry Johnson?
For one thing, they are both members of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), whose purpose is to get current and former intelligence officers to break their oaths and the law, and to leak secrets to hurt our military and national security."