CIA Officer Fired for Leaking Classified Info to Media

[driver]

<p>The first domino. This will get very interesting.</p>

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[driver]

<p>More details, and this is just the tip of the iceberg. Now we’re getting somewhere.

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.</p>

<p>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.

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[razorsharp]

<p>A CIA employee’s duty to the CIA overrides any personal political agenda the employee may have. I hope Mary McCarthy likes prison. I hope she ends up there for long time.</p>

[RugBurn]

<p>I’m impressed at the sheer speed at which “anonymous CIA officer” became Mary McCarthy. It looks like leaks within leaks within leaks!</p>

[coureur]

<p>Too bad that White House officials don’t also get fired for doing that.</p>

[weenie]

<p>How can people be focused on WHO leaked this rather than on the disgusting details of WHAT she leaked? Oh, that’s right, it’s the Leaker in Chief who is focused on it.</p>

<p>Torture is a dispicable policy and the United States of America should not be doing it. That’s all there is to it.</p>

[TheDad]

<p>I’d pin a medal on her. Of course, we have a President who has repeatedly indicated that he believes that he can ignore any law he wishes in his role of commander-in-chief. King George indeed.</p>

<p>Weenie, you have it right, the misplaced focus on “who” instead of “what.”</p>

[fundingfather]

<p>Here’s some information about the “what”:

Investigations into reports that US agents shipped prisoners through European airports to secret detention centers have produced no evidence of illegal CIA activities, the European Union’s antiterrorism coordinator said yesterday.</p>

<p>The investigations also have not turned up any proof of secret renditions of terror suspects on EU territory, Gijs de Vries told a European Parliament committee investigating the allegations.</p>

<p>The European Parliament’s probe and a similar one by the continent’s leading human rights watchdog are looking into whether US intelligence agents interrogated Al Qaeda suspects at secret prisons in Eastern Europe and transported some on secret flights through Europe.</p>

<p>But so far investigators have not identified any human rights violations, despite more than 50 hours of testimony by human rights activists and individuals who said they were abducted by US intelligence agents, de Vries said.</p>

<p>''We’ve heard all kinds of allegations, impressions; we’ve heard also refutations. It’s up to your committee to weigh if they are true. It does not appear to be proven beyond reasonable doubt," he said. ''There has not been, to my knowledge, evidence that these illegal renditions have taken place."

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<p><a href=“http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2006/04/21/eu_official_no_evidence_of_illegal_cia_action/[/url]”>http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2006/04/21/eu_official_no_evidence_of_illegal_cia_action/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

[CC_Admin]

<p>A true patriot!</p>

[hayden]

<p>As the story develops . . . .</p>

<p>According to McCarthy, she did not fail the lie detector test, and did not leak classified information. Her story is that the CIA discovered that she had lunch with a reporter, and this constituted inappropriate fraternization. She was fired - even though she was scheduled to retire next week.</p>

<p>Who knows what the story is, but both sides have a side.</p>