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."
Me, too, LOL.
Gee, I don't know how to do a tagline.....any help?
Blast from the past .. maybe some clues re CIA Leak/Plame ..
http://www.marcinkowskiforcongress.com/60minutes.wmv
Wilsongate: Motive, Means, and Opportunity
Seymour Hersh reported that Vince Cannistraro had learned about the forgeries a few months after October 2002 through an inside source at CIA: “Vincent Cannistraro. . .told me that copies of the Burba documents were given to the American Embassy, which passed them on to the C.I.A.'s chief of station in Rome, who forwarded them to Washington. Months later, he said, he telephoned a contact at C.I.A. headquarters and was told that ‘the jury was still out on this’--that is, on the authenticity of the documents.”
Thanks. The guy on 60 Minutes tonite was something Heiler and it was about the Niger documents. Did you see it?
I can't open it. What's it about?
No, I didn't see it. I'll see if I can find a transcript later.
Go to This Page and see bottom right.
My connection is too slow for Windows Media.
Ahh .. there's also Real and QuickTime links on that site.
I saw 60 Minutes...and I thought that the CIA guy they had war SO transparent....
He was way too SURE about the information HE believed, as opposed to the information that President Bush believed.
If nothing else...one thing I have learned since 9/11 is that intelligence is never 100% RIGHT or WRONG...and it changes all of the time.
So, for this guy to be adamant that Iraq never went to Niger looking for uranium doesn't pass the smell test.
From Senate BCCI report (chaired by Kerry):
Appendices:
9. BCCI's financing of commodities and other business dealings of international criminal financier Marc Rich. Marc Rich remains the most important figure in the international commodities markets, and remains a fugitive from the United States following his indictment on securities fraud. BCCI lending to Rich in the 1980's amounted to tens of millions of dollars. Moreover, Rich's commodities firms were used by BCCI in connection with BCCI's involving in U.S. guarantee programs through the Department of Agriculture. The nature and extent of Rich's relationship with BCCI requires further investigation.
From Section 11:
Relations between the CIA and the Saudi intelligence service were generally good, going back to the days when the legendary and enormously wealthy Kamal Adham had been its head. In 1970, the Saudis had provided then Egyptian Vice President Sadat with a regular income. It was impossible to determine where Saudi interests in these arrangements ended and American CIA interests began.(37)
Adham's historic relationship with U.S. intelligence was indeed unusually close. While Adham was still in place as the CIA's liaison in 1977, the CIA's station chief for Saudi Arabia, Raymond H. Close, chose to go to work for Adham upon leaving the CIA, according to press reports at the time which Close has only denied since the BCCI scandal broke.(38) As Jeff Gerth of the New York Times reported in 1981:
In the case of Mr. Close, the one time station chief in Saudi Arabia, former Government officials say his actions, while in the CIA and since retirement, are often clouded in mystery. In the first place, some think Mr. Close may still be working for the CIA in some capacity, although he officially retired in 1977. They add that a further complicating factor is that some Saudis privately share the same perception.(39)
The Times account describes how Close had actually given approval to weapons sales from Saudi Arabia to Pakistan in the early 1970's, in contravention of the "official policy" enunciated by the American ambassador, and states that Close went into business with Kamal Adham upon leaving the CIA.(40)
Comey (who appointed Fitz) was the person who was chasing Rich and was mad that he was pardoned by Clinton.
Richmond Newpaper Article about Comey
And speaking of pardons, there is this:
While Clinton's pardon of former CIA director John Deutch caught CIA officials by surprise, the president solicited advance comment from the agency on the possibility of pardoning Morison, who leaked three secret spy satellite photographs to Jane's Defence Weekly in 1984. But Clinton ultimately disregarded the agency's position and approved a pardon application Morison submitted to the Justice Department more than two years ago. "We said we were obviously opposed -- it was a vigorous 'Hell, no,' " said one senior intelligence official. "We think giving classified information to people who are unauthorized to receive it is a bad thing to do, and giving pardons to people who are convicted of doing that sends the wrong signal to people who are currently entrusted with classified information."SNIP~~~~
Pardoning the only government official ever convicted of leaking classified information, the intelligence chairmen said, would do nothing to stop a torrent of media leaks in Washington. Shelby said the pardon only underscores the need for new legislation explicitly criminalizing leaks.
But civil libertarians and First Amendment advocates lauded Clinton for pardoning Morison, arguing that the Reagan administration had inappropriately turned Morison's 1984 leak into a test case of whether the espionage statutes applied to unauthorized disclosures to the media.
bttt
She was also a top Kerry advisor ..just like Rand Beers, Joe Wilson and Sandy Berger (till Burger got caught stuffing papers down his pants)
Also .. remember back during the campaign and all the stuff about the ports Kerry yapped about and no one could figure out where he got his information from???
Wasn't it Lugar that came up with the Shield Law Bill to protect Journalist .. it was right after Judith Miller was carted off to jail
Yes, you are correct...
Free Flow of Information Act, or Media Shield Law
http://tinyurl.com/lpu33
Yeah, it probably is hypocritical.
I've long wondered what Gertz motive for leaking supposed classified info was. Someone have an axe to grind?. Someone trying to manipulate national security focus? All very interesting, and a little scary. I personally find it criminal to leak classified info.
In reply to my post, someone mentions that Gertz has claimed that none of the information that he publishes is classified. He certainly seems to have excellent access, but maybe he's a totally straight shooter...
Thanks for the Beer ping.
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