We'll who would of ever guessed, Mary McCarthy

Is anyone else concerned that this was in the IG office?

Na, there more concerned with declassified stuff like Bush did with plame. Never mind a REAL leaker. Hope they nail her and who ever did the NSA leak, But alas we know most liberals call that kind of leak a whistleblower?

What really sucks for McCarthy is that she got caught in the middle of the AIPAC case (for those unfamiliar with the case, it's a spy trial where a Pentagon employee was caught giving classified information about Iran (our enemy) to Israel (our ally)). The fact that we are going after someone who in essense was doing something that could be construed as "doing something for the right reason" in the most macro of senses, proves that breaking the law should get you in trouble. The Pentagon employee is looking at something like 15 years in FPMITA prison. McCarthy should get atleast as much.

Oh, if there's any good news about this, it's that if there was an investigation into this leak, one can be assured that there is one going into the NSA Wiretap case.

Perhaps we should change the Pulitzer Prize so that in addition to a nice little medal, you get a subpeona as well.

I agree , leaks of truly classified info should be prosecuted to the fullest .

One thing in that article puzzles me . Why is this staement there ?--"Public records show that Ms. McCarthy contributed $2,000 in 2004 to the presidential campaign of John Kerry, the Democratic nominee."

Is this added out of context so that if she gets convicted , the Liberals can point to it as Conservative scapegoating ?

I think they added it to show party loyalty. We can assume she had/has a vendeta for this admin. All that cash just to lose, would make me pissed?

>>I agree, leaks of truly classified info should be prosecuted to the fullest<<

Except if you're Dick Cheney...he is still counting the profits that Haliburton would be making from Iraq, instead of getting fired.
His poor assistance, 'Scooter Libby' is receiving all the blows for him.

But, all joking aside, please read the following :

THE WASHINGTON POST, Front page, Tuesday, April 25, 2006.

DISMISSED
CIA OFFICER
DENIES LEAK ROLE

Official Says Agency
Is not Asserting She
Told of Secret Prisons

A lawyer representing fired CIA officer Mary O. McCarthy said yesterday that his client did not leak any classified information and did not disclose to Washington Post reporter Dana Priest the existence of secret CIA-run prisons in Eastern Europe for suspected terrorists.

A senior intelligence officer said the agency is not asserting that McCarthy was a key source of Priest's award-winning article last year disclosing the agency's secret prisons.
McCarthy was fired because the CIA concluded that she has undisclosed contacts with journalists, including Priest.

That does not mean she revealed the existence of the prisons to Priest,
Ty Cobb, McCarthy's lawyer, said.
Cobb said that McCarthy, who worked in the CIA inspector general's office, "did not have acces to the information she is accused of leaking", namely the classified information about any secret detention centers in Europe. Having unreported media contacts is not unheard of at the CIA but is
a violation of the agency's rule.

By R.Jeffrey Smith and Dafna Linzer
Washington Post Staff Writers.-


Trying to connect John Kerry to "Leaking Classified Information" is because many pathetic "honorable" republicans still can't stand that Kerry carried his half dozen medals for bravery back home in his swiftboat?

I would think some one "honorable" when they supposedly have a have doozen medals on there chest and they say they will release there service record, should do so. So much for honor? I'm still waiting on that one too amoung other things?

Tikala said --

Where did that come from ? Who was trying to link Kerry with leaks ???

Tikala.

If I'm not mistaken you yourself mentioned a statement of Mary McCarthy's contribution to the Kerry campaign that was added to the report of her firing by the CIA.

Why else did they find it necessary to mention Mary's contribution to the Kerry campaign?

Mary's contribution to Kerry has nothing to do with her firing by the CIA.

Hey, that's MY opinion, and I don't ask you to agree. You may disagree, of course !

"Enjoy conflicting views" says the administrator !

I guess you missed this one "I think they added it to show party loyalty. We can assume she had/has a vendeta for this admin. All that cash just to lose, would make me pissed?"
It is also called freedom of the press, they can write what ever they think is true or is pertanent to the topic.

My reply was for Curmudg.

I did not tough your post.

That means "I enjoy conflicting views"

Couple of related storys.

Townhall.com :: Columns :: A traitor in the midst by Cal Thomas - Apr 25, 2006

What do you call someone who, in violation of her oath, reveals government secrets to a reporter, who then prints them and exposes a clandestine operation designed to get information from suspected terrorists that could save American lives?

Here is what one dictionary says about that word: "One who betrays another's trust or is false to an obligation or duty." The word so defined is traitor.

The Central Intelligence Agency fired an intelligence officer after determining she leaked classified information to a Washington Post reporter about secret overseas prisons used for interrogating suspected terrorists. News reports say the fired employee is Mary McCarthy, who has denied being the source of the leaks. McCarthy was appointed by former National Security Adviser Samuel Berger as special assistant to President Bill Clinton and senior director for Intelligence Programs. Berger has had his own problems with classified documents. In 2005, he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges that he stole five copies of highly classified terrorism documents while doing "research" at the National Archives building.


Virtually all people who handle classified documents, whether members of Congress or their staff, or employees of the Central Intelligence Agency, take an oath not to reveal those documents to anyone without proper authorization. McCarthy is alleged to have violated that oath. Such oaths are nothing new. They extend back to the founding of the nation.

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Townhall.com :: Columns :: John Kerry's tangled webs by David Limbaugh - Apr 25, 2006

Oh, what tangled webs John Kerry weaves. But then again, foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of little minds, not sophisticated, expansive minds calibrated for complexity and nuance, like John Kerry's.
Sen. Kerry has been trying to make himself a part of the news other than as a failed presidential candidate ever since he became a failed presidential candidate. He has been sending group e-mails almost daily since his defeat, on every imaginable political subject. Hey, if I'm on the distribution list, can you imagine who all gets these gems?

They cry out, "Look at me. I'm still here. I have craved this position since before I made the most profound statement ever uttered by a precocious politician-in-waiting: 'How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?' Oh, those were the glory days -- before the Swiftees started stalking me. Oh, and by the way, I'm running again in 2008."

Kerry has stepped up his profile even more in the last few days. Thirty-five years ago from the day he sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee and slandered his fellow Vietnam soldiers with false allegations that they committed atrocities, he gave a speech at Faneuil Hall in Boston. This time the subject was the War in Iraq and patriotic dissent. Kerry just couldn't wait to tell the fawning antiwar, antiBush audience how proud he was to have been a loud, dissenting voice on returning from Vietnam, and he was proud to be one again over Iraq. He also reiterated his patently bogus charge that the Bush administration, by defending itself against the onslaught of lies against it, is trying to stifle dissent.

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And another. Townhall.com :: Columns :: Of Pulitzers and treason by Pat Buchanan - Apr 25, 2006