A New Round of McCarthyism (CIA leak)

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A New Round of McCarthyism

By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 25, 2006; 8:27 AM

So . . . were we all a bit too quick to hang Mary McCarthy?

Actually, I think the media's response was perfectly logical. The CIA fired her, saying she had flunked a polygraph and admitted unauthorized contacts with reporters and, the official guidance went, she helped The Post's Dana Priest on the secret prisons story.

McCarthy made no comment, issued no statement, and didn't have a lawyer or a spokesman issue any statement. Ergo, she was not disputing the charges.

Except now she is.

Although the whole thing is still a bit strange. She has still made no comment, issued no statement, etc. Instead, a friend of hers is putting out the denial--several news cycles after the story broke.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100587.html

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1. the freind is a lawyer

.....http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/24/AR2006042401601_pf.html


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.

The statement by Ty Cobb, a lawyer in the Washington office of Hogan & Hartson who said he was speaking for McCarthy, came on the same day that a senior intelligence official said the agency is not asserting that McCarthy was a key source of Priest's award-winning articles last year disclosing the agency's secret prisons.

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2. What are the Republicans hiding ??

Could it be their illegal TORTURE prisons throughout Eastern Europe ???
Hmmmmmmmm ???

Ghost people much ?

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3. As usual, the 'so called media' didn't bother to do any digging of

their own, and now Howie's trying to justify his laziness. SOP, different day.