CIA officer fired over media leak was key senior analyst

[Flabbergasted]

Paper: She once guarded most sensitive secrets
By Katherine Shrader, Associated Press | April 23, 2006

WASHINGTON -- The CIA's decision to fire a top intelligence analyst accused of leaking classified information became a political issue almost immediately after it became public last week.

The officer was a senior analyst nearing retirement, Mary O. McCarthy, who the agency said leaked information to news organizations about a secret network of CIA prisons.

McCarthy was once responsible for guarding some of the nation's most sensitive secrets as a senior aide for the National Security Council, The New York Times reported in today's editions, citing several current and former government officials.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/04/23/cia_officer_fired_over_media_leak_was_key_senior_analyst/

[C_U_L8R]

1. The part i find puzzling

is that hardly anyone is talking about the -seeming admitted- FACT
that the CIA has been running secret prisons throughout Eastern Europe.

This woman is a whistleblower and deserve protection.
Why isn't congress (or at least the democratic portion)
howling about the CIA's gross human rights abuses.

Puzzling !!! ???

[Flabbergasted]

2. The thought blew through my mind... and then I said to myself...

"ya know don't bother thinking about that"...God Bless Ignore-ance.

[stillcool]

5. iI think t's the same old story....

fear of imprisonment, and harrassment. The secrecy agreements signed upon employment have dispersed through more government agency's, making it more difficult for even non-spys to speak out. Before publishing books are subject to arbitrary approval, and some are blocked because of the 'secrecy agreements', which the courts uphold as a binding contract on silence. And with more and more being classified...

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[stillcool]

7. whining?

You do realize that all through our government agency's, long-time experienced employees are being purged for their law-abiding notions...and are being replaced by inexperienced and unqualified political shills? Don't you think that's something to whine about? ...or scream for that matter

[Ebaum]

9. No, because she doesn't give a whoot about what's right or wrong

she's doing it for political gains. Just like how when Clinton was impeached for his mistake by the Republicans, the Democrats are trying to get back at them by trying to impeach Bush.

[stillcool]

12. you know her?...

or did you read this on another favorite site? In either case, I cannot be bothered by blathering poppycock.

[DoYouEverWonder]

14. Try again

DEMS are not petty and vindictive like your corrupt Repug friends.

[Flabbergasted]

15. What possable political gains are you taliking about man....She put her

carrer on the line....Where's the gain?

[Oversea Visitor]

18. Welcome to reality

It is harsh
Political gain :rofl: what you mean how can she gain :crazy:
Clinton impeach for his mistake .... you mean the blowjob..... what about bush BLOWN job

Democrats get back at them THEM???? who them

Impeach bush..... where you go? that he be impeach is for sure.
What else you need
Lies on Iraq war, 9 trillion deficits, what does he has to do to make you say enough is enough
Geee who ever you are he screwing the hell out of your daughter and son and their daughter and son
and you just STAND there and SCREAM go georgie go :rofl:

[Neil Lisst]

22. We ARE the Democrats!

The CIA agent was hardly leaking it for political gain, but I'd love to hear your theory on it.

[ninkasi]

23. Pathetic

and transparent. Enjoy your very short stay here.

[Supersedeas]

25. Wonder if that is what Brit Hume and the 19 percenters think too?

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[Mr Rabble]

28. enjoy your stay.

[dxm]

29. I agree we need a new leader, but I have little faith in the

Republican or Democratic parties to do that. True leaders are a dying breed.

[AngelFactor]

4. Didn't they deny the prisons existed?

If they don't exist how can she be fired. You mean Condi lied? No!

B B B

American Justice? Sure, so why is an attorney getting away with tampering with court documents even though he “inadvertently” filed three pages of emails detailing what was done with the court.

See for yourself: http://www.maximumadvocacy.com/Court_records.html , look on pages 25-27 of document 64.

Unbelievable. Priceless. Hilarious, if it wasn’t so sad but true.

How’s your faith in the justice system?

[C_U_L8R]

11. That's the puzzling part...

they seemingly validate the claim that they are
operating illegal torture prisons by going after
this whistleblower. Why aren't the press and congress
all over their shit for this ?????? There's an eerie quiet.

Oh and WELCOME TO DU ANGELFACTOR

[PublicWrath]

21. Perhaps they are willing to validate the claim by firing this woman

only because they fear worse things will come out (post #17).

[riderinthestorm]

16. This deserves repetition....

"Didn't they deny the prisons existed? If they don't exist how can she be fired. You mean Condi lied? No!"

THIS is what I don't understand about the firing. They are admitting that the torture prisons exist. That is illegal both here in the US and in those countries.

Why was this woman fired?

[PublicWrath]

17. My take:

Right now many people at the CIA are appalled at some of the things this administration is doing. The factionalism at the CIA has been described as "Wehrmacht vs SS". I think the firing of this woman in such a public manner was quite simply done to forestall more horrifying disclosures from agents throughout the US and abroad.

Yes, I think that the firing of this woman was a tacit admission the prisons exist and what scares me is that they were willing to make such a move because there are even more hideous details they don't want us to hear; secrets which touch on the buildup for the war or torture.

[kentuck]

6. Why doesn't someone pull snaky Porter Goss's ass before Congress?

To explain why the hell we're running torture camps in Poland? What was the purpose? Did he think it was legal? Did he have any intention of telling anyone about it? Why not? Does he think he should be maintained as CIA Director if the White House changes in 2008? Does he think it is a prosecutable crime?

[90-percent]

8. Goss testifying before congress?

I hope they show him due respect and not bother with little piffles like having him TAKE AN OATH. Everyone in the Bush Admin is way too honest and honorable to require something as demeaning as swearing to tell the truth.

Leave that bit of degredation for us common folk that haven't earned such priviledges.

-85% jimmy

[HereSince1628]

10. Didn't Larry Johnson just write that she worked for the Inspector General

of the CIA.

With obvious limitations to his firsthand knowledge, he claimed she was working in her final year and she would only have come into contact with documents about the secret prisons if there had been an internal investigation.

Well if that's true, the idea of the Bush administration squelching a leak about the administration's own wrong doing certainly fits the same old pattern--burying whatever is threatening to them.

[Beth in VT]

13. They sure got to the bottom of that quickly. n/t

[ShortnFiery]

19. Hum ...

Maybe she wasn't the leaker at all but was fired for being a troublemaker, i.e., asking too many pesky questions of The Dear Leaders?

She was set up to take a public fall even though what we are doing (secret prisons) is morally depraved and not worthy of even covert OPS of a great Democracy, the MOST importing fact to our Rulers is that there's 100% loyalty.

The logic of the above completely escapes me.

[Imagevision]

24. She should have been given the medal of freedom like "slamdunk"

[Neil Lisst]

26. "When we killed Pie Face, we got a whole new level of RESPECT"

--- American Me, James Edward Olmos

The administration is assassinating a high level agency official who GAVE MONEY to John Kerry's campaign in 2004, two grand to be exact.

It's a message, like the killing of Pie Face.