“didn’t even have access to the information”
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in The War On Terrorism
Mary McCarthy “categorically denies being the source of the leak.”
From Newsweek:
After being told by agency interrogators that she may have been deceptive on one quesiton during a polygraph, McCarthy did acknowledge that she had failed to report contacts with Washington Post reporter Dana Priest and at least one other reporter, said a source familiar with her account who asked not to be identified because of legal sensitivities. McCarthy has known Priest for some time, the source said.McCarthy, 61, a career CIA analyst who was working in the inspector general’s office, was then told on Thursday that she was being fired. She was not escorted out of the CIA buiilding, the source said. She also had been assured that the CIA would protect her privacy–just one day before her name became publicly known as the agency official who had been dismissed for leaking to the press, the source said. Ironically, McCarthy, who presvously worked as chief intelligence official for the National Security Council during Bill Clinton’s second term, was planning on retiring from the CIA soon to pursue a new career as a lawyer working on adoption and family cases.
Well, this story just got more interesting…
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April 24th, 2006 at 9:05 pm
Does the article say she didn’t have access to the information? Is that the meaning of your post title?
So she denies that she was the source of the lprisons eak, but admits to providing leaks to the press, just not that one. Ok, that’s fine, let’s hear what she did leak. It’s time for a special prosecutor.
April 25th, 2006 at 7:52 am
Where does it say that? It says that she talked to a reporter. They may have been friends, they’re both from Washington so maybe they were talking about Ovechkin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eorWhtV9Aqk&search=Ovechkin
April 25th, 2006 at 8:21 am
I fully support the restriction on leaks by CIA employees … I do not understand the double standard …. We are the US Government and we are saving you from terrorists .. but you cannot know anything about how we do that … by the way, careful what you say, who you say it to, and how you say it … just trying to protect you folks, ain’t freedom great? What? I am breaking the laws? God made me do it. AND, you had better back off, dude, or we will tell the wife about that call you made to …. on Tuesday … hey, could you fill out this registration form? and please don;t forget to vote in November …. and don’t forget, we haven’t been attcked again … and we should be compassionate to those doing work that we just can’t get American workers to do …. Hey, tell that McCarthy woman to shut up ….keep her in the cold for awhile, and then send Monty to make her a deal .. oh, and God Bless you all …. this is really hard work …
April 25th, 2006 at 10:03 am
Oh, and don’t worry about all the secret prisons and torture and renditions and stuff. There is nothing bad going on. And, you couldn’t prove it anyway. But, we’re not going to let anyone do any investigating or give anyone the opportunity to find out whether or not that stuff is going on because it would be a threat to National Security if anyone actually had any facts or information of any kind. So, you will just have to be a proud, patriotic american and keep your fingers crossed that we aren’t attaching electrodes to anyone’s genitals, but even if we are doing that, you should feel like a proud, patriotic american for sticking it to those evil, evil terrorists. America, F*** Yeah!!!!!!
April 25th, 2006 at 12:08 pm
The European countries involved have investigated and found no evidence that the secret prisons ever existed. So, there has been an investigation. How thorough the investigation and how trustworthy the results are is up to interpretation.
April 25th, 2006 at 12:59 pm
Hold on there a second!
If the European countries found no evidence that the secret prisons existed.
How did a CIA employee commit a crime? By suckering a reporter into printing a false story?
Either we are running a secret prison system or Ms. McCarthy should be reinstated. You can’t have it both ways