Posted on 04/21/2006 12:01:43 PM PDT by Howlin
Edited on 04/21/2006 12:47:23 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Just breaking on Fox...
No details, but the agent was caught dead to rights leaking....
Update: CIA Officer Fired for Leaking Classified Info to Media
WASHINGTON — A CIA officer has been relieved of his duty after being caught 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 ongoing investigation into leaks in the CIA.
One official called this a "damaging leak" that deals with operational information and said the fired officer "knowingly and willfully" leaked the information to the media and "was caught."
I wondered if someone else had heard that. In view of the fact that she failed the polygraph test and then confessed it seems a little far fetched, but who knows.
Anyway, so far nothing on neither FOX nor CNN web sites.
From the article:
"Mary McCarthy should accept her firing with pride -- she served the Republic, and has been fired by individuals who will eventually be censured if not impeached. America owes her a vote of thanks. She certainly has my respect."
Me: I hope she accepts her sentence with pride.
This has become an all-out counter attack by these clowns. "By their deeds you will know them".
An why does that hack Eric Holder end up in these hoity-toity lists?
"For information on the death of U.S. Intelligence, visit http://tinyurl.com/lj6um. OSS.Net is the foremost site in the world on OSINT, and is now focusing on ethical legal means of achieving Collective Intelligence, which empowers the public and holds government accountable.
We can do better. The continued failure of intelligence -- and of intelligence oversight in Congress -- must be an issue in the 2006 elections. We plan to make it so"
Methinks a sting is in play. :)
For the record:
Washington Post intelligence reporter Dana Priest was online Thursday, Nov. 3, at 12:30 p.m. ET to discuss the latest developments in national security and intelligence.
(WAPO Online live discussion the day after she penned the prisons story)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2005/10/28/DI2005102800907.html
CIA Leak: Pushback
http://junkyardblog.net/archives/week_2006_04_16.html#005702
Both are on this thread. Your's is from CBS, mine is from print media. Same identical wording for what was apparently a prepared 'news release'...they've seen this coming and got their ducks in a row?????????????????????????
Ye thinks right.
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Yep, they had the Condi charge up ahead of time too. Andrea Mitchell laid on the Mc story until it came out via Fox... them slam, Mc, then Condi. (We all know where Mitchell comes from). You can tell all the spin was prepared ahead. I saw stuff on Slate and other lib sites about Condi before the story broke with almost identical wording. One of the bloggers on the leak posted examples Friday night... I have to find them and email them.
That is an interesting post, kcvl. I am asking myself why Richard Clarke is donating to Dick Lugar's campaign. Why does he want to curry favor with Dick Lugar, and BOY won't our local talk show host (Greg Garrison...Mike Tyson prosecutor) be interested in this!
My husband said basically the same thing. If they come, I hope they call first so I can clean the house before they get here.
Actually, it wasn't my grab. But it's no secret that the Clintonistas are trying to get rid of Weldon.
Is this too obvious, or DID YOU JUST STRIKE OIL and GOLD?
A Reminder
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/7/29/132456.shtml
Thursday, July 29, 2004 1:20 p.m. EDT
Another Clinton Terror War Bungler in Key Kerry Post
Another ex-Clinton official who played a leading role in bungling efforts to capture and/or neutralize Osama bin Laden has turned up in a key advisory position with the Kerry campaign.
Susan Rice, who served as President Clinton's Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, had earlier been tapped by Gov. Howard Dean's anti-war campaign.
This week, however, Rice emerged as a foreign policy advisor to the Kerry Edwards campaign, which is still reeling from revelations that another key advisor, former Clinton national security chief Sandy Berger, had stolen national security secrets.
Rice is also acting as the campaign's designated apologist for former ambassador Joe Wilson, the Kerry advisor whose claims that "Bush lied" about Iraq uranium were exposed as bogus by the Senate Intelligence Committee two weeks ago.
"As far as I know, we have no reason to believe that Mr. Wilson's words and deeds were not as he spoke them," Rice told reporters this week. "I have great respect for his integrity."
The same can't be said of Rice, however, at least according to several of her former colleagues, who say she deserves a hefty portion of blame for the fact that Osama bin Laden wasn't neutralized during the 1990s.
"The FBI, in 1996 and 1997, had their efforts to look at terrorism data and deal with the bin Laden issue overruled every single time by the State Department, by Susan Rice and her cronies, who were hell-bent on destroying the Sudan," one-time Clinton diplomatic troubleshooter Mansoor Ijaz told radio host Sean Hannity in 2002.
Richard Miniter, author of the book "Losing bin Laden," concurred, saying Rice played a key role in scuttling the deal that could have prevented the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington.
In November 2003, Miniter told World Magazine that while Sudan was anxious to turn bin Laden over to the U.S., Rice - then a member of Clinton's National Security Council - questioned Khartoum's credibility.
"Rice [cited] the suffering of Christians [in Sudan] as one reason that she doubted the integrity of the Sudanese offers," said Miniter. "But her analysis largely overlooked the view of U.S. Ambassador to Sudan Tim Carney, who argued for calling Khartoum's bluff."
According to Miniter, Carney argued that the Clinton White House should "accept their offer of Mr. bin Laden and see if the National Islamic Front actually hands him over."
If Sudan complied, "we would have taken a major terrorist off the streets," he said. If they didn't, "the civilized world will see that, once again, Sudan's critics are proven right."
In a 2002 Washington Post op-ed piece co-authored with Ijaz, former ambassador Carney described Sen. Kerry's new adviser as a major obstacle to accepting offers from Sudan to share intelligence on bin Laden's terrorist network.
In April 1997, they said, Sudan dropped its demand that Washington lift sanctions in exchange for terrorism cooperation.
"Sudan's policy shift sparked a debate at the State Department, where foreign service officers believed the United States should reengage Khartoum. By the end of summer 1997, [those officers] persuaded incoming Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to let at least some diplomatic staff return to Sudan to press for a resolution of the civil war and pursue offers to cooperate on terrorism.
"Two individuals, however, disagreed. NSC terrorism specialist Richard Clarke and NSC Africa specialist Susan Rice, who was about to become assistant secretary of State for African affairs."
Rice and Clarke persuaded Clinton National Security Advisor Sandy Berger to overrule Albright on the Sudanese terrorism overtures, said Ijaz and Carney.
Still, Sudan made yet another attempt to share intelligence on bin Laden and al-Qaida with the White House, repeating the unconditional offer to hand over terrorism data to the FBI in a February 1998 letter addressed directly to Middle East and North Africa special agent-in-charge David Williams.
"But the White House and Susan Rice objected," wrote Ijaz and Carney. "On June 24, 1998, Williams wrote to Mahdi, saying he was 'not in a position to accept your kind offer.'"
U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were destroyed by bin Laden six weeks later, in a suicide bombing attack that killed 253.
Oh brother...
Did you see this:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060422/nysa009.html?.v=50
Did the Soviets put something in the water at the CIA;) Could explain some of the behavior of these ex-CIA types.
Why was she not arrested?
Iraq's foreign minister, Naji Sabri, with whom U.S. spies had made a deal."
"Is this too obvious, or DID YOU JUST STRIKE OIL and GOLD?"
I don't know, does it depend on which U.S. spies we're talking about?
Combating Catastrophic Terror (Late Oct. '05)
A Security Strategy for the Nation
http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/pp.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=1138615
Featuring:
Susan Rice, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (1997-2001)
Rand Beers, President, Valley Forge Initiative; former Counterterrorism Adviser on the National Security Council (1988-1998, 2002-2003); and former Assistant Security of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (1998-2003)
Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development, University of Maryland, and Senior Fellow, the Saban Center, The Brookings Institution
Moderated by:
John D. Podesta, President and CEO, The Center for American Progress Action Fund, and former White House Chief of Staff (1998-2001)
The United States needs a comprehensive long-term strategy to fight the greatest threat to the American people: violent extremists who, often in the name of Islam, seek to use catastrophic terror to achieve their goals. Is America ready for this threat? Specifically, do we have the right policies and structures in place to fight terrorism and to secure the homeland? Are we on the right track or the wrong track when it comes to this key national security challenge?
A panel of experts will present and discuss Combating Catastrophic Terror A Security Strategy for the Nation, a new report that provides answers to these questions and sets out a comprehensive, integrated approach to the greatest threat Americans face. The report was formed in response to requests from Congressional leaders and came together over several months. It offers members of Congress and officials at the local, state and national levels a clear understanding of the threat and the stakes -- and specific recommendations for a new counterterrorism strategy.
After you read the transcript, you may want to read the whole report:
http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/pp.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=1138607
Oh, here's who contributed to the full report btw:
Madeleine K. Albright
Samuel R. Berger
Donald A. Baer
Rand Beers
Daniel Benjamin
Robert O. Boorstin
Kurt M. Campbell
Richard Clarke
Bill Danvers
Thomas E. Donilon
Thomas J. Downey
Leon Fuerth
Suzanne George
John Podesta
Steve Ricchetti
Susan E. Rice
Wendy R. Sherman
Gayle Smith
Jeffrey H. Smith
Tara Sonenshine
Jim Steinberg
Shibley Telhami
Toni G. Verstandig[*]
If they've done that, it's because they didn't know until McCarthy's boot hit the door that there were no prisons and they're valiantly trying to get out from under Bush's 'firing range'.
(And to think they were making fun of Cheney's aim : )
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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