The Mary McCarthy story just took a fascinating turn with the revelation that high powered criminal attorney Ty Cobb has taken on McCarthy as a client.
What is significant about Mr. Cobb is that he defended some of the highest profile criminals in the Clinton Administration including cabinet officers, a White House staffer, and a former Senator:
Represents the chief financial officer of major public company in an SEC investigation of significant restatement and alleged misconduct. (Jeff Skilling?)
Represented the United States Olympic Committee in connection with the DOJ investigation into the Salt Lake City, Utah Olympics.
Represented The Honorable Eli Segal, a former Clinton Cabinet official, in an Independent Counsel investigation resulting in his exoneration and an award of attorney’s fees.
Represented a high ranking White House official in Congressional and DOJ investigations involving the White House Travel Office.
Represented a former U.S. Senator and, separately, a member of the First Lady’s staff in connection with the Congressional and Independent Counsel investigations into “Whitewater.â€
Represented other Cabinet and Cabinet level officials on three separate occasions in DOJ investigations.
Represented a former Commerce Department official and Democratic National Committee official, John Huang, in connection with Congressional and DOJ investigations (and related civil actions) involving campaign finance and the Clinton-Gore campaign of 1996.
If someone would fill in those blank names (too busy this AM) I would appreciate it.
The point is, why does little ole whistleblower Mary McCarthy rate such heavy Democratic party artillery? Especially if she’s not under indictment. Especially if the case hasn’t been referred to the Justice Department.
AJ Strata thinks McCarthy is making a mistake by relying on this particular attorney and I agree. It appears that Mr. Cobb was hired by others – not to defend McCarthy so much (defend her from what?) but to manage information coming out of leaks at the CIA on the case. He can deny, deny, and deny again that she leaked but as Mac points out, she signed a statement admitting wrongdoing.
My post last night on McCarthy pointed out that she may have been simply a facilitator for the press, confirming or denying specific information to keep reporters on track with their stories. But even if she leaked like a sieve and sang like a canary, the question you have to ask is: How has a woman who may not be in any danger at all from prosecution been able to procure the services of a $750 per hour attorney like Ty Cobb whose client list reads like the attendees at a Bill Clinton private Sybaris party?
Just wondering…
7:40 am
[...] UPDATE 2: Another Democratic heavy hitter enters stage left: lawyer Ty Cobb will apparently defend McCarthy. [...]
8:01 am
Conspiracy theories will grow now, like the Left loved to do in the past.
8:22 am
ABC News and the equivalency card
When it comes to leaks which undermine our national security, we can always count on our media to come to the defense of those who leaked the information by either a) referring to them as “whistleblowers” or b) utilizing the “everybod…
8:49 am
Represented a high ranking White House official in Congressional and DOJ investigations involving the White House Travel Office.
According to the deposition of Nussbahm it points to Mr. Martin
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/DEPOSITIONS/nussba1.htm
9:00 am
YOU OUGHTA BE IN PICTURES
Rick Moran, at Right Wing Nut House, notes that TY COBB AIN’T NO BENCHWARMER: What is significant about Mr. Cobb is that he defended some of the highest profile criminals in the Clinton Administration including cabinet officers, a White House staffer…
9:06 am
Prosecuting a leak case is not easy, which is why it happens so rarely. The only sure way is to catch someone red-handed, which almost never happens. There’s a reason polygraphs aren’t admissible in court – they’re unreliable.
According to news reports, she did admit to “having improper contact†with members of the press. This, in and of itself, is not a violation of her non-disclosure agreement (NDA) with the government. However, people in positions like hers with high security clearances are generally prohibited from independent contacts with the press – contacts are supposed to go through the agency’s PR office. This appears to me to be the basis upon which she was fired – not for any actual leaking. Although the CIA probably believes she was a leaker, and the leaker for the black prisons program, there is no way to prove it, so I bet the chances of prosecution are pretty slim at this point. Even if charges are filed, conviction is unlikely.
As for a high-powered attorney like Ty Cobb, he may have to her and offered representation for free or a reduced rate. Or, like Rick said, someone else hired him and is footing the bill. This isn’t all that surprising since the left-wing sees the salivating right-wing blogspere going banana’s over this story. They obviously want to get this story over and done with and get back to Bush-bashing.
9:12 am
Amazing how I don’t remember any of those “highest profile criminals in the Clinton Administration including cabinet officers, a White House staffer, and a former Senator” being convicted of a crime. Maybe it’s more likely that, once again, Rick Moran is making baseless accusations.
Anybody want to put money Moran’s ability to prove any of this?
9:13 am
McCarthy Denies Being Leaker
Ty Cobb, the lawyer representing CIA officer and alleged secret prison leaker Mary McCarthy, claims that his client is innocent. The Washington Post reports: A lawyer representing fired CIA officer Mary O. McCarthy said yesterday that his client did no…
9:15 am
Ed:
You are probably correct in that none represented by Mr. Cobb were convicted. I should not have used the term “criminals” when describing them. I apologize.
How about “sleazeballs?”
9:40 am
Another interesting linkup to Mr Cobb is that another guy who was a lawyer for the same firm is none other than Sandy Berger
http://www.psaonline.org/bio_berger.html
9:58 am
I posted earlier in the week mentioning that there needs to be a full investigation into following the money.
Did the Washington Post pay her anything?
Did she declare it as income?
For a Government employee, she sure has lots of money to throw around, especially for someone who was getting ready to ‘retire’.
10:20 am
Sleazeballs is within the realm of acceptable commentary. So many accusations of criminal behavior are flying around that we devalue the term. Call ‘em criminals if convicted. Calling ‘em sleazeballs is subjective.
11:30 am
Fred Fry: Probably Mary McCarthy’s books already are being gone over. Waiver of personal financial privacy is, or so I have heard, a condition of employment. So likely, Ms. McCarthy is just an idealogue.
12:28 pm
Ok why is the RNC paying for James Tobin’s legal bills with your contributions for illegally jamming get out the vote lines during the last election…why do rethugs hate fair elections….because they lose them
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12:38 pm
[...] Update: Rick Moran reports on Ms. McCarthy’s lawyer, Democrat heavy hitter, Ty Cobb. [...]
12:42 pm
Fair elections? Be serious. Neither Chicago nor Milwaukee has had one in thirty years. Graveyard voting and tire slashing are effective campaign strategies favored by those still suffering from election envy.
12:58 pm
Here is another thought: how does a CIA public servant muster up $7000 to donate to Kerry and the DNC?
1:02 pm
Hey FemocratBasher. (possibly the most idiotic alias ever) Three Republican election workers were recently convicted for cherry picking votes in Ohio. Convicted, as in going to jail. As far as your claims about Chicago and Milwaukee, you’ve got nuthin’. Everybody with a brain knows this fact. REPUBLICANS HATE DEMOCRACY.
1:04 pm
Wilson’s crime… being a Democrat. I’m really sick of this new batch of Republicans. When some real Americans get back into the White House the first thing they need to do is fire Porter Goss.
1:05 pm
Randy:
Got that right, dog.
Zieg Heil, baby!
1:06 pm
[...] Check out, also, neo-neocon’s Former hippie recollections about patriotism and trends. AJ is also feeling the hippie-dippy vibe and remembering Nixon. Big Lizard can’t quite put the Canary Cage idea to rest and makes a compelling case. The big M’s videoreport at Hot Air has some fun with double standards in the press. Tom Maguire seems increasingly fed up that the press seems to get so much wrong when it comes to folks on the left. Varifrank does not like McCarthy much, and is wracking his memory to find who she reminds him of. Gateway Pundit reminds us – among other things – that the rendition program leaked to Dana Priest came into being under Sandy Berger and Bill Clinton. Rich Moran says her lawyer is a Clinton-saver from way back. [...]
1:22 pm
Ed said:
“Amazing how I don’t remember any of those “highest profile criminals in the Clinton Administration including cabinet officers, a White House staffer, and a former Senator†being convicted of a crime.”
John Huang was convicted.
http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/1999/August/357crm.htm
1:36 pm
“Amazing how I don’t remember any of those “highest profile criminals in the Clinton Administration including cabinet officers, a White House staffer, and a former Senator†being convicted of a crime.â€
Those are claimed by Mr Cobb himself
http://www.hoganhartson.com/tcobb/
1:38 pm
You’ve got Porter Goss in there destroying the CIA’s ability to produce objective intel and you’re obsessing about some lawyer, as if it makes a difference who represents whom. It’s another head-scratching side issue so common on conservative blogs. Look, James Baker represented the Saudi royal family against the families of 911 victims, but you don’t hear me going on about it obsessively. That’s what lawyers do.
What’s really happening is there’s a war soing on between the intelligence community and Bush. It turns out that CIA agents aren’t really happy with their new role as the players in Bush’s homoerotic torture scenarios. The CIA has long held that torture is counter-productive, and rightly so. They also don’t like the way Bush claimed “bad intelligence” rather than take the heat for his mis-characterizations (lies) about the intelligence he recieved on Iraq. On top of that, Bush’s staff leaks the identity of a valuable NOC to the press, because her husband is not marching in lockstep with the war propaganda campaign. Bush retaliates to dissent within the CIA by sending in Goss, a died in the wool political hack, to purge the agency of Democrats and liberals, as if the CIA is some kind of hotbed of liberalism. This won’t end well. Of course, nothing Bush touches ever does.
1:58 pm
[...] If she’s innocent, it seems a curious coincidence that she’s got such a high-powered democrat party defense attorney defending her. [...]
2:03 pm
McCarthy: ” I Didnt Leak, I was not escorted out”
From MSNBC. snip… “McCarthy’s lawyer, Ty Cobb, told NEWSWEEK this afternooon that contrary to public statements by the CIA late last week, McCarthy never confessed to agency interrogators that she had divulged classified information and “didn’t e…
2:09 pm
Jumping on the RW bandwagon is easy. Unfortunately, it hasn’t even been substantiated (not even by the administration) that she was leak. She denies it, BTW.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12466719/site/newsweek/
2:24 pm
I’m starting to get the picture now. She has connections to Democrats, so, since they need someone to pin the secret torture center leaks on, why not her? Kill two birds with one stone. Very clever, those Machievellians.
2:28 pm
Never Yet Melted said “If she’s innocent, it seems a curious coincidence that she’s got such a high-powered democrat party defense attorney defending her.” Well I suppose when you have some very powerful people trying to put you behind bars it helps to have the best representation possible. That’s how we do things in America.
3:01 pm
John Huang?!
That’s the best you can do?!
Come ON people!
Think! Think!
3:14 pm
shingles said:
“John Huang?!
That’s the best you can do?!”
Given that this is Cobb’s own partial list of clients, and that there are exactly two named defendants in the list, and the other one “was exonerated,” (according to Cobb’s own information), that’s all that CAN be done.
Put another way, 50% of Cobb’s named clients, above, were convicted.
3:49 pm
Leakers and Liars – More Great Resources
Here’s some additional links for the Leakers and Liars… It’s almost impossible to keep up. Pajama Warriors are without a doubt the best researchers around!!
4:56 pm
Perhaps because other people whom this administration has accused without admissible evidence have ended up in Guantanamo Bay?
Just a thought.
4:58 pm
The point is, why does little ole whistleblower Mary McCarthy rate such heavy Democratic party artillery?
Hmm, if you’re suggesting it’s because she’s guilty, then it’s probably the same reason Karl Rove rates such heavy Democratic party artillery like Luskin.
pwned.
Thank you.
5:12 pm
I know the constitution doesn’t really matter anymore since we’re at war and all that. But still, are we really saying only guilty parties get high profile lawyers? Or may we save the cost of a trial and proceed directly with sentencing Ms. McCarthy because we don’t believe either her or the CIA when they say she didn’t do it? Because we’re right and they’re…well…not us.
6:48 pm
Who is Ty Cobb?
Dr. McCarthys Lawyer. More here from Westlaw. More info on Ty Cobb Esq. at RightWingNutHouse. (Tonight on a very special episode of “Mythbusters”,Jamie tries to disprove the myth of human doppelgangers…)...
10:30 pm
If the intelligence wasn’t faulty then why was there the Iraqi Liberation Act in 1998? It basically stated that we supported those who will try to overthrow of Saddam. ie. encouraging cival war. No offense to both parties but I wish that both Democrats and Republicans clean their own houses instead of pointing how messy the other one’s is. Of course, that will never happen because that is not how politics works. How do you tell chimps to stop flinging crap when they are mad? You can’t because it is easier to fling crap. This doesn’t mean the CIA situation isn’t at least a little bit fishy.
10:56 pm
[...] It looked suspicious to me this morning when I read Rick Moran’s explanation of just who is representing Mary O. McCarthy. The mere presence of that particular counsel suggested strong ties to the strategic and financial wellsprings of the democratic left. [...]
2:40 am
Leave it to the Lawyers By the Bear
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.
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2:45 am
Leave it to the Lawyers By the Bear
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.
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7:37 am
McCarthy gets one lawyer while Libby has a multi-million dollar defense fund. And your point is?
10:41 am
The point is that Mary McCarthy isn’t nonpartisan. That is the point. We knew already that Libby was a Republican. There was an assertion that McCarthy and a large group of CIA agents were working as nonpartisan workers. McCarthy donates large sums of money to the Democratic party and is now represented by lawyer who has represented Democratic clients before. This simply proves that she was a partisan spook.
10:53 am
You guys really sound like a bunch of fascists. Mary McCarthy has the right to donate money to any political party. That has no bearing on the merit of the case against her. What is apparent is the concerted effort on the part of Porter Goss to rid the agency of any agents that don’t share his political beliefs. People like him put democracy in more peril than any two-bit muslim terrorist ever could. We don’t really know who leaked the information about the foreign torture prisons. It could quite possibly have been a conservative. The last I heard, the concern about America’s place as a moral leader in the world cuts across party lines. That’s why so many thinking Republicans have parted ways with the Bush administration.
8:34 pm
why does little ole whistleblower Mary McCarthy rate such heavy Democratic party artillery?
Just guessing, but maybe it’s because that Democrats believe that hauling people off to gulags is immoral.
I know that conservatives have this real bad history of moral relativism, so maybe you just can’t understand it
4:46 pm
Represents the chief financial officer of major public company in an SEC investigation of significant restatement and alleged misconduct. (Jeff Skilling?)
Nope was Gemstar-TVGuide cfo
http://www.hhlaw.com/tcobb/
8:50 pm
> They obviously want to get this story over and done with and get back to Bush-bashing
Yeah!! Screw this piddly shit, we gotta get back onto PlameGate
LOL.