The war between the CIA and the White House took an interesting turn today as one CIA source for the press was rolled up and another came out of the closet.
First, the Agency announced the firing of an employee who has admitted speaking to the press:
A CIA officer has been relieved of his duty after being caught leaking classified information to the media.Citing the Privacy Act, the CIA would not provide any details about the officer’s identity or assignments. It was not immediately clear if the person would face prosecution. The firing is a highly unusual move, although there has been an ongoing investigation into leaks in the CIA.
“The officer has acknowledged unauthorized discussions with the media and the unauthorized sharing of classified information,” said CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano. “That is a violation of the secrecy agreement that everyone signs as a condition of employment with the CIA.”
Interestingly, the leak was about the “Secret Prisons” being run by the CIA overseas. You remember the “secret prisons” don’t you? You know, the ones no one seems to be able to find:
BRUSSELS — 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.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.
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.
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.
Can you say “sting?”
It is very, very tempting to connect those two dots. They are begging to be connected. One dot is going so far as to do a belly dance to entice the other. Alas, we have absolutely no evidence at this point so it is pure speculation to say that the entire “secret CIA prison” story was a plant and part of an internal agency leak investigation.
If true, what wailing and gnashing of teeth we will hear from the newsrooms and TV sets of America. There will be outrage that the press was used in this manner. There will be howls for an investigation into a disinformation campaign by the Agency whose purpose was to mislead the American people.
What they’ll really be pissed at is losing a prime source of juicy, anonymous leaks from an agency that in the last 5 years had begun to resemble a rusted out radiator from a 1952 Nash Rambler rather than a top secret branch of the United States government.
Meanwhile, another CIA officer (retired) goes on TV to tell us more of what we already know; that there were some intelligence reports prior to the war that said Saddam didn’t have any weapons of mass destruction – just like there were many, many more that said he did:
A CIA official who had a top role during the run-up to the Iraqi war charges the White House with ignoring intelligence that said there were no weapons of mass destruction or an active nuclear program in Iraq.The former highest ranking CIA officer in Europe, Tyler Drumheller, also says that while the intelligence community did give the White House some bad intelligence, it also gave the White House good intelligence — which the administration chose to ignore.
The above would be laughable in just about any other context. The difference between “bad” intelligence and “good” intelligence cannot be determined until after the fact! Perhaps the gentlemen would like to explain which psychic the White House should have used to tell the difference before the Iraq War.
You might recall the war between the CIA and the Pentagon over the curious and corrupt Ahmed Chalabi and the role that gentleman played in pre-war intel. The Pentagon insisted that Chalabi was a good source. The CIA believed him to be a charlatan. The White House, in the lead up to the war and eager for regime change, chose to believe the hawks at the Department of Defense. The fact that Chalabi’s “intelligence” (largely from a now discredited source known as “curveball”) turned out to be as reliable as Harry Reid’s word of honor became apparent only after we were in Iraq.
Could the Administration have ferreted out the truth on Chalabi before the war? On WMD’s? On all the other Iraq intelligence that turned out to be false, exaggerated, or misleading?
This, of course, is the bone of contention between the President’s enemies and his dwindling number of supporters. From my point of view, with the White House drive for regime change in Iraq picking up a full head of steam, they began to realize that the CIA was a house of smoke and mirrors.
There is plenty of evidence that a kind of bureaucratic paralysis descended on the agency – and following their spectacular failure on 9/11 who could blame them – which frustrated the White House enormously. For every report that has leaked out since the invasion showing the Administration “missed” something or “failed to act” on intelligence, there is plenty of evidence in the Senate Select Committee Report (SSCR) and especially in the Robb-Silberman Report that shows not only that there were countervailing reports showing the opposite of what was leaked but also the overwhelming problems faced by policymakers and elected leaders in the lead-up to the War in trying to find out what exactly Saddam Hussein had in the way of WMD and how much a danger he was to American interests.
Not that it would have mattered that much. I think most honest observers now understand that Bush had made a decision to invade Iraq , probably as early as September of 2002 and no later than February of 2003. Did this lead to a “fixing” or “twisting” of intelligence? Appearances in this case may very well be deceiving. What the record shows is an Administration being careful with intelligence in some areas – WMD - and careless in others – Iraq’s nuclear program. Saddam could try and purchase all the yellow cake he could get his hands on, the fact is his nuclear program would have needed at least 5 years and perhaps a decade to get started again (The Dulfer Report). At the same time, there was overwhelming evidence (despite what Mr. Drumheller says about his one, lone government source) that Saddam had WMD and was going to use it on American soldiers during the invasion.
The President’s enemies will jump on Drumheller’s interview as more evidence that the Administration lied its way to war. I think it shows more evidence of a culture in the CIA that is arrogantly corrupt and still believes that they are the ones who make national policy, not our elected leaders.
UPDATE
The leaker’s name is Mary McCarthy, former NSC staffer under both Clinton and Bush #41.
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.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.
Interesting that she worked in the IG’s office. Federal whistelblower law requires that intelligence whistelblowers must go through the IG’s office to file their complaint. None of the leakers so far as has been revealed have gone through the IG’s office before spilling national security secrets to the press.
And poor Ms. Priest. What happens if it turns out her Pulitzer was for a story that never was?
UPDATE II
Here’s a round up of sorts on both the CIA Leak story and the Drumheller interview:
Bluto posting at Jawa Report:
NBC News has identified Mary O. McCarthy as the CIA officer fired. Interestingly, Fundrace.org identifies a Mary O. McCarthy, with occupation listed as “Analyst” for the U.S. Government as having donated $2000 to John Kerry’s 2004 Presidential campaign.
File that under “The Most Unsurprising Information Ever.”
Kim at Wizbang covers the react from big blogs.
Certainly the inside leakers are the primary concern as Goss tries to instill a new sense of mission and a loyalty which transcends politics within the CIA. But if you want to address the entire problem, then perhaps the MSM would benefit from some of its members being inconvenienced with pesky items like Grand Juries and subpoenas to produce their notes.
This isn’t simply a little graft over a political boondoggle, these are issues of great consequence they’ve been gleefully headlining on their front pages in an almost treasonous way.
Man, I can’t wait for that Libby trial. Seeing Russert sweating on the witness stand may rank right up there with seeing Star Wars for the first time as far as entertainment value is concerned.
Goldstein makes the correct civil liberties argument:
To be clear: I think it is dangerous to stifle a free press; but at the same time, press freedom needs to be tied to responsibility. And printing leaked state security secrets for partisan reasons is not journalism, nor is it particularly brave: instead, it is ideological manipulation using the fourth estate as a way to influence public opinion.
And it undermines the democratic process by ill-serving readers under the guise of neutrality and objectivity.
And when a partisan media is aided and abetted by partisan leakers in our intelligence services, where are we?
Chad Evans is wondering about the “secret prison” story also and covers it from a different angle than I do above.
Ace nails it:
Goldstein calls them tinpot Machiavellianists; I call them Machiavellian Marxists. They’re the worst sort of villain—the villain who thinks his villainy is justified because he’s actually the Hero of the story. At least a mobster knows, in his heart of hearts, what he’s doing is actually evil.
But there is no internal moral restraint in such people. Anything and everything can be done, no matter how underhanded, dishonest, or borderline treasonous, because they serve a greater good than mere law or ethics.
Jay at Stop the ACLU hopes that this is the start of a crackdown on those who leaked the NSA intercept program.
UPDATE III
Michelle Malkin links to some more fascinating information about McCarthy:
The report of the 9/11 Commission notes that the National Security staff reviewed the intelligence in April 2000 and concluded that the CIA’s assessment of its intelligence on bin Laden and al-Shifa had been valid; the memo to Clinton on this was cosigned by Richard Clarke and Mary McCarthy, the NSC senior director for intelligence programs, who opposed the bombing of al-Shifa in 1998.
Al-Shifa was the chemical weapons precursor factory in the Sudan that Clinton ordered hit. No evidence has come to light in the aftermath of that bombing that the plant was anything more than a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility.
And Flopping Aces has a terrific round-up with all sorts of little interesting fact flakes on Ms. McCarthy.
UPDATE IV: 4/22
For some additional thoughts on the theory that the firing of McCarthy may have been a sting by the Agency to trap a leaker, see this post where I take a few steps back from that premise.
6:32 pm
Don’t count out the WMD just yet. Saddam’s hoard of paperwork is showing more and more that the intel was right on. The secret prisons may have been a sting but that matters little. One thing we know for sure, any member of the CIA that is linked to the democratic party by as little as one vote for them is a traitor to the their country. That proves how low half of the American people have sunk, not one democrat is loyal to their employer and specifically not loyal to the United States. It’s a sad state of affairs but confirms I was right to quit voting for the anti-american party in 1992 after 30 years of being stupid enough to vote for them.
6:46 pm
Heard this evening that the squeaker is a woman, wouldn ‘t you know it, the weaker sex. Puts women back a few years.
Anyway why are we in Iraq? WMD or whatever. Remember the run up to the Afg. war, the press kept telling us that the Russians couldn’t do it. the Brits failed also. The winters not to mention the summers. Mountains are too high, our equipment won’t work. not to mention the military’s lungs, so I won’t mention them lungs! You know all the mess the press predicted, they were rubbing their hands and teeheeing how the Bush adm. would get it’s ass handed to them. How well did that work out?
Again, anyway there is something to say regarding the mountains, winters and summers so President Bush moved the war to Iraq, pretty flat land so breathing wouldn’t be a problem. Bush knew our men in the military would handle the winters and summers. So in a way he invited all to come to this level waring fields to join us in a war. Better there then here or New York. How’s it working out you ask, the story is on going, some good some bad, damn, it’s a war! Are we up to it, damn straight we are. UNLESS the chicken shits here at home, DemoCRAPS, abetted by the seditious traitors (see #13 aka nikko) stop us. Will we be stopped, let us be damned if we do!
7:15 pm
I had something I wanted to say and I think it was coherent, but after reading the two comments above, I”m really speechless. I think I’ll go have a drink and ponder the future of the Republic. Have a nice weekend.
7:29 pm
Diamond said: “Heard this evening that the squeaker is a woman, wouldn ‘t you know it, the weaker sex. Puts women back a few years.”
There have been rumors for years that the “Sisterhood” in the CIA was the source of most of the leaks. I hope that she and the reporters she gave classified information will be prosecuted with the same vigor as Scooter Libby. Where is the rightous Fitsgerald now? Press conference?
8:08 pm
[...] Who was duped in this story? The journalist who filed the story, thus including the editor that didn’t check the facts on the story, some members of the EU who still believe there at least were secret prisons or was the leaker of this information waged in a campaign to simply make his [make that her] superiors look bad, including President Bush and the Pentagon of course? [...]
8:50 pm
The Friday Night News Dump
And someone, somewhere, will write the story about the leakers and themselves become eligible to win a Pulitzer Prize.
8:57 pm
Sisterhood, haven’t heard that before but I can see it. Just what we needed, the faminization of the CIA. Can you imagine a woman president with this pettiness behavior leading our country. I know there are a few that could have sense about them, but damn few of them and Hildabeast doesn’t comes to mind, infact after a few months of her as president, I think that I would feel sorry for her sorry husband!
#3 Steven: He must be off pondering his navel lint by now. Somehow we left him speechless, does that mean that he is unable to type on a keyboard without moving his lips!
9:00 pm
[...] Rightwing Nuthouse CIA Intelligence Leak Priest Prisons Filed in: NSA Wiretap’s | No Comments » [...]
9:57 pm
To reveal secrets and aid the enemy is treason. Death to traitors.
10:03 pm
Went to Flopping Aces and read all the info there. This is much nastier and wider a threat then just some asshole of a women experiencing pms! This is beyond the pale. Will the press see the harm they have done by joining with criminal elements in our government? Will there be a re-thinking now that some have been exposed? Or are we goin’ to see RATS scampering for cover.
There it is again, #13 aka nikko Seditious traitors!
WestVirgina senator p.o.s., hope you are next!
12:49 am
The Friday Office Blog Pool
The Story: CIA Fires an Officer for leaking info to Media. The Pool: 1. How long until the CIA Officer is referred to by the media to as a “whistleblower”? 2. How long until he/she shows up on Chris Matthews?...
1:30 am
The Friday Office Blog Pool
Mary O. McCarthy – CIA Officer and former NSC member. Fired for leaking classified information to the press. The Story: CIA Fires an Officer for leaking info to Media. The Pool: 1. How long until the CIA Officer is…
1:41 am
CIA officer fired over “secret CIA prisons in Europe” leak
Excellent. Via NBC:
WASHINGTON – In a rare occurrence, the CIA fired an officer who acknowledged giving classified information to a reporter, NBC News learned Friday.
The officer flunked a polygraph exam before being fired on Thursday and is now unde…
1:49 am
New York Times: No Proof of Secret C.I.A. Prisons
The European Union’s anti-terrorism chief, Gijs de Vries, reported before a panel on Thursday that he has not been able to prove that secret C.I.A. prisons existed in Europe. This is the second European investigation that has failed to have turn …
2:29 am
Um, I believe it’s incorrect to say that Mary McCarthy worked under both Clinton and Bush 41. The article states she worked under Clinton and “George W. Bush.” Bush 41 is George H. W. Bush. George W. Bush is Bush 43.
6:52 am
Regaining Control Of The White House Press Room
One of the key elements of the White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan’s reign was the fact that he had been constantly ambushed by the Press Corps with leaked information which either he had no knowledge of himself or knew to be classified. It i…
7:05 am
I have no problem with the leakers being found out and punished, but the problem is the “false” information feed to the MSM is not corrected and stays out there in the liberals minds festering and growing—how much damage can be done to catch leakers? Where is the balance?
7:08 am
[...] Captain Ed over at Captain’s Quarters joins in a “what if” session with Rick Moran at Right Wing Nuthouse asking whether this CIA “secret prisons” story was nothing more than a canary trap. Why would it be? Because the investigators at the EU have found no evidence, anywhere, that these prisons ever existed. Quoting from the Captain: How do intel agencies find leakers and spies? They pass around carefully designed misinformation to selected individuals considered likely suspects, and see what winds up exposed as a result. It’s possible that after Porter Goss took over as DCI when George Tenet left, he began mole hunting in a big way. It’s certain that the administration would have demanded some action on leaks, and Goss would have been of a similar mind. It appears that the story she gave Dana Priest has a lot less substance than first thought. Two separate investigations by Europe turned up nothing. They have reported on both occasions that no evidence exists to substantiate the story, either of the detention centers or of European cooperation. [...]
7:08 am
[...] Captain Ed over at Captain’s Quarters joins in a “what if” session with Rick Moran at Right Wing Nuthouse asking whether this CIA “secret prisons” story was nothing more than a canary trap. Why would it be? Because the investigators at the EU have found no evidence, anywhere, that these prisons ever existed. Quoting from the Captain: How do intel agencies find leakers and spies? They pass around carefully designed misinformation to selected individuals considered likely suspects, and see what winds up exposed as a result. It’s possible that after Porter Goss took over as DCI when George Tenet left, he began mole hunting in a big way. It’s certain that the administration would have demanded some action on leaks, and Goss would have been of a similar mind. It appears that the story she gave Dana Priest has a lot less substance than first thought. Two separate investigations by Europe turned up nothing. They have reported on both occasions that no evidence exists to substantiate the story, either of the detention centers or of European cooperation. [...]
7:44 am
One down, how many more to go?
It’s nice that the CIA fired Mary McCarthy, the traitor (yes, traitor, in my not-so humble opinion) who leaked the story about CIA overseas detention facilities, instead of letting her retire as she had been planning to do. I just hope the firing cost…
8:10 am
[...] Rick Moran poses the idea the recent CIA leak nabbing could have been a sting operation. His logic is sound: the day of the news breaking on the CIA Officer being fired, news comes out that the EU cannot find any evidence of the prisons described in the Washington Post story by Dana Priest. It is very, very tempting to connect those two dots. They are begging to be connected. One dot is going so far as to do a belly dance to entice the other. Alas, we have absolutely no evidence at this point so it is pure speculation to say that the entire “secret CIA prison†story was a plant and part of an internal agency leak investigation. [...]
8:50 am
I doubt that this was a sting operation.
Were I running such a sting, I would immediately have released information disproving the allegations that the CIA was running secret prisons as soon as Priest ran with her story.
Some reasons why: once the leak investigation started, there was nothing to be gained by letting McCarthy continue to think her leak was accurate. Two, while catching leakers is important, the Bush Admin and its allies in Eastern Europe took such a PR hit that I wonder if the sting wasn’t such a phyrric victory that we might have been better off without it. And third, what better way of discouraging others from leaking than to let it be known that there are active sting operations going on? While leakers might not have been deterred by the thought of getting caught, they and/or their reporter sources might have been troubled by the thought that what they were leaking might not have been real.
8:52 am
CIA Officer Didn’t CYA
A CIA agent has been fired for leaking classified information to the media: CIA officials will not reveal the officer’s name, assignment, or the information that was leaked. The firing is a highly unusual move, although there has been an…
8:58 am
Was it a Sting?
Captain’s Quarters and Right Wing Nuthouse are pondering the possibility that the CIA European dentention center story may have been a sting designed to identify moles. Why do they think this? The New York Times reports that the European antiterror…
10:04 am
WaPo: Bush Adminstration Targets Journalists and National Security Employees
From WashingtonPost.com this morning-In an effort to stem leaks, the Bush administration launched several initiatives earlier this year targeting journalists and national security employees.If the Post had made even a small effort to report the truth, ...
10:06 am
[...] I di not get the chance to write about it, though, until this morning, and was beaten to the punch by Rick Moran and Captain Ed Morrisey. [...]
10:48 am
Fired Leaker Caught in Sting Operation?
Much more news has come out about yesterday’s firing of a CIA officer for leaking classified secrets to the press.
The NYT reports her name, duty station, and the information leaked:
The C.I.A. would not identify the officer, but several governme…
11:17 am
Dana Priest wins the Walter Duranty award for retaining an illegitimate Pulitzer, apparently…
11:22 am
[...] Rick Moran: Can you say “sting?†It is very, very tempting to connect those two dots. They are begging to be connected. One dot is going so far as to do a belly dance to entice the other. Alas, we have absolutely no evidence at this point so it is pure speculation to say that the entire “secret CIA prison†story was a plant and part of an internal agency leak investigation. [...]
11:52 am
Details Details
Mary McCarthy, the CIA officer just fired for poliical leaking to the press turns out to be, how unsurprising!, a Clinton appointee, who worked under former National Security Advisor, Sandy Berger, well known for stealing classified documents himself…
12:48 pm
CIA fires information leak
Good. It’s about time. I hope they prosecute her too. I have no tolerance for people who violate security. She knew the risks and the consequences.
CIA Officer Is Fired for Media Leaks
The CIA fired a long-serving intelligence o…
1:12 pm
[...] Also see Ace and Rick Moran. Ace writes how this story will be spun and how Libby’s “leak” vis-a-vis Plame will be used to herald McCarthy as some kind of hero. There are important distinctions here, not to mention there was nothing illegal in the entire Plamegate scenario other than Libby not telling the truth to Fitzgerald. Moran discusses the possibility the entire secret prisons story was an intentional sting operation to out a leaker. Just as Moran is skeptical this was a sting operation, I am too. I believe McCarthy was either misinformed or worse, she just wanted to peddle garbage to hurt the White House. [...]
1:56 pm
If the prison story is not true, how could she be charged with leaking classified information for this particular item; unless they get Priest to reveal other real secrets she has divulged?
If, on the other hand, there were prisons, and they were a classified secret that was revealed, mere dismissal from her job is not enough. Wartime national security secrets are not proper fuel for personal political perogatives. The leaker should be prosecuted and severely punished to get the message across.
3:26 pm
New Moonbat Hero to Emerge
The CIA has fired a leaker, his or her identity secret for now, until the Today show books the “brave wistleblower” of course.
WASHINGTON — A CIA officer has been relieved of his duty after being caught leaking classified information to the media….
4:29 pm
No Proof of Secret CIA Prisons
The Associated Press reports the European Union’s antiterrorism coordinator says investigations into reports that US agents shipped prisoners through European airports to secret detention centers have produced no evidence of illegal CIA activities: ‘...
5:56 pm
Rockefeller, Durbin To Take Polygraphs?
As investigations into the leaking of classified information nabbs Mary McCarthy, the far left are jumping to the leakers’ defense. Of course the NY Times wants to be included with those doing the defense. Wizbang notes how the media is circli…
6:24 pm
CIA Officer Fired: Clinton’s Senior Director Of Intel Programs, Kerry Supporter
***SCROLL FOR UPDATES*** Don’t expect to see the same fake outrage from the left, as we’ve seen in “Plamegate”, over this latest REAL leak. As we know, in the Plame situation, no one can seem to say she’s covered under…
7:45 pm
[...] Update: Lots more on the dishonorable Ms. McCarthy. Posted at 10:37 AM | | [...]
11:31 pm
[...] 2. The rogue faction in the CIA took a hit as a Clinton/Kerry Democratic Left operative in the CIA was frogmarched out the front gate. See the linked blog for exhaustive detail and discussion. [...]
1:50 am
St. Mary of Langley
Actually, I suppose Mrs. McCarthy should be St. Mary of Bethesda. At the time of her little difficulty, she had long since left the monastic environs of CIA headquarters in Langley, VA for the spiritually elevated atmosphere of Washington D.C.,...
5:21 am
A Vast Leftwing Conspiracy?
What may have motivated Mary O. McCarthy to leak classified information about ‘secret prisons’ in Europe to the press? (Secret prisons that Rick Moran tells us nobody can seem to find. Wow, is the CIA good or what? Was it…
1:43 pm
[...] The Bush Administration seemed powerless to stop the steady stream of leaks from the CIA, Foggy Bottom and the Pentagon throughout the 2004 Presidential campaign and beyond. Every leak was designed to undermine the President. The decision to take down Saddam was seen as a golden opportunity to destroy the Bush Presidency. It was not as if the Clintonistas didn’t see Saddam as a danger to US interests; the Clinton administration had made it a national policy to replace Saddam but Clinton lacked the guts to do it. The Clintonistas simply think destroying Bush is more important than defeating radical Islam and the regimes that support the radicals. The administration seemed to be forced into the decision to appoint a special prosector to investigate the Plame leak. Despite the fact that no one, least of all Fitzgerald, has produced any evidence that a crime was committed, the investigation went ahead. The MSM applauded the deal and the left, exemplified by Joe Wilson’s vision of Karl Rove being frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs, salivated. But this investigation has had some benefits for the administration. Reporters found they were no longer above the law when it came to identifying leakers. The MSM is slowly coming to realize that leakers and those who publish national security secrets are in danger of prosecution. But, they cannot claim unfair treatment; it was, after all, the MSM that insisted on identifying who leaked Plame’s identity. Is the firing of Mary McCarthy related to the Plame Blame Game? Some bloggers have found intruiging links. Just One Minute notes that Wilson and McCarthy both served on the National Security Council from June 1997 to July 1998. Via Flopping Aces and Free Republic, we find that McCarthy was a member of Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Her bio, as it was published by CSIS, reads:Prior to joining CSIS in August 2001, Mary O. McCarthy was a senior policy adviser to the CIA’s deputy director for science and technology. Until July 2001, she served as special assistant to the president and senior director for intelligence programs on the National Security Council (NSC) Staff, under both Presidents Clinton and Bush. From 1991 until her appointment to the NSC, McCarthy served on the National Intelligence Council. She began her government service as an analyst, then manager, in CIA’s Directorate of Intelligence, holding positions in both African and Latin American analysis. From 1979 to 1984 she was employed by BERI, S.A., conducting financial, operational, and political risk assessments for multinational companies and banks. Previously she had taught at the University of Minnesota and was director of the Social Science Data Archive at Yale University. McCarthy has a B.A. and M.A. in history from Michigan State University, an M.A. in library science from the University of Minnesota, and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Social Change and the Growth of British Power in the Gold Coast (University Press of America, 1983).Her fellow experts at CSIS include Bush-hater Zbigniew Brzezinski, Rumsfeld-hater Anthony Zinni, former Republican Senator and Clinton Defense Secretary William Cohen, Sam Nunn, and Henry Kissinger. She moved in high-powered circles and that makes her a big fish. Perhaps the most delicious prospect is that she was hooked passing on bogus information, as Right wing Nuthouse explains. Was she connected to the Plame Blame Game plot? Pobably not in the genesis of the plot, but likely in the referral of this bogus leak to the DOJ, as AJStrata notes. Whatever, the Mary McCarthy prison leak affair promises to be much more fun than the Plame Blame Game, much to the discomfiture of Clintonistas everywhere. Posted by: Pat on Apr 23, 06 | 11:17 am | [0] comments [0] Views | Permalink | [0] TrackBack | Go to Main Page Random Posts Love or Fear? Parachuting Protestor The Criminal Justice system is not appropriate for terrorists var site=”sm6blogger” Judicious Asininity >>http://www.asininity.com 2004PHP [...]
3:19 pm
[...] Go to Power Line’s post for the relevant links. Also see Jeff Goldstein, Ace, Michelle Malkin, Flopping Aces, Tom Maguire, Andrew McCarthy, and Rick Moran. [...]
5:43 am
Contemplation and Cogitation On Chatty Canaries, Cages, and Current Classified Controversies
I’ve been thinking about “canary traps” for the last couple of days, ever since Rick Moran of Right Wing Nuthouse suggested the possibility that the “secret CIA prisons in Eastern Europe” story was just such a thing—though he…
1:58 pm
So if these prisons do exist, wouldn’t McCarthy be a whistle blower, and not a leaker? If your rights were being taken away, and someone in the government thought that they could help you and make a difference by talking about illegal activities they thought to were being conducted to a journalist, how can we really fault her motivation? If peoples rights are being taken away as a guise under national security, wouldn’t you want to know?
A: How could she leek what wasn’t real? I believe that’s entrapment.
B: If the prisons are real, then how is she wrong to disclose the wrong doings of our country so that we as a populace may be given a chance to decide weather or not this is the direction we want to take our country?
C: why as the administration not denied that these prisons exist? Seems simple just to say they don’t exist. However if they said this then they are found, this could look badly on bush. If he knows they don’t exist, he looses nothing by setting the story strait.
3:01 pm
I am amazed at how much evidence you had to ignore to peice this story together, and I’m a right winger! Go Bush, yes, but making just insane allegations like this, how do you have a job? Ohh, you don’t, you’re a blogger
4:27 pm
[...] The Reality Based Community has the entire thing in its glory: Right Wing Nuthouse (their label, not mine) jumps on a report that the European Union investigator has said that there is no “proof beyond reasonable doubt” that the “renditions” happened or that the secret prisons exist (which, quoting from Little Green Footballs, RWN overinterprets as “no evidence”) and proceeds to “connect the dots”: the whole thing was made up out of whole cloth as a sting to catch CIA leakers. (No, really: I lack the invention to make this stuff up.) [...]
5:50 pm
What part of “pure speculation” don’t you understand?
Making idiotic allegations like that, how is it that you graduated from high school?
Oh…you didn’t. You’re a dumbshit.
12:01 am
I know it won’t mean a thing to you guys when I say, I am truly sorry, but it has to be said, you are out of your ever loving minds. your idea of treason is a taste skewed. We have a president who has been proven to be a liar in a number of instances and is the true traitor, and you are accusing those who want to stop this madness of being traitors, you have everything backwards. Add to that the fact that these republican wingnuts care not one iota for anything but the very wealthy, and certainly not you, and I get completely baffled by your loyalty. You are like dogs whose masters beat them, yet they wag their tails when they see them at the door. I wish you all the best as you wallow in the pig sty your president has left you with.
2:07 am
Booyah!
2:08 am
For the Republic ^
8:24 pm
There’s precedent for this….
....from many years ago. A famous New York Times writer fabricated stories about the Soviet Union and won a Pulitzer Prize for hi…
1:22 pm
while this poster was a bit exaggerated, and seemingly biased, he may have had a point here when suggesting: you have everything backwards.
an executive that relies upon a “trust me” defense of executive branch power, rather than the Constitution and the laws set up under that consitution, is in this instance acting more in common with a dictatorship or despot than a free democracy.
as far as perhaps well meaning, but backwards logic goes,consider this article
11:54 pm
How do you feel about this “sting” (the secret prisons) now that Bush has revealed that they actually exist?