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C.I.A. Defends Officer's Firing in Leak Case
NYTimes.com ^ | April 26, 2006 | MARK MAZZETTI and SCOTT SHANE

Posted on 04/25/2006 8:57:49 PM PDT by Lancey Howard

WASHINGTON, April 25 — The Central Intelligence Agency on Tuesday defended the firing of Mary O. McCarthy, the veteran officer who was dismissed last week, and challenged her lawyer's statements that Ms. McCarthy never provided classified information to the news media.

But intelligence officials would not say whether they believed that Ms. McCarthy had been a source for a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of articles in The Washington Post about secret C.I.A. detention centers abroad. Media accounts have linked Ms. McCarthy's firing to the articles, but the C.I.A. has never explicitly drawn such a connection

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A C.I.A. spokeswoman, Jennifer Millerwise Dyck, said: "The officer was terminated for precisely the reasons we have given: unauthorized contacts with reporters and sharing classified information with reporters. There is no question whatsoever that the officer did both. The officer personally admitted doing both."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 5thcolumnists; bleedingheartattack; cia; cialeaks; cobb; detainees; leakers; leaks; marymccarthy; mccarthy; pulitzer; pulitzerprize; secretprisons; securitybreaches
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To: JaneAustin

Yes it was. However, the CIA stated again today that McCarthy provided classified sensitive information to several media sources on several occassions, and she admitted to it.

I am sure they have a signed confession to this. She is in allot of trouble.


41 posted on 04/25/2006 10:36:48 PM PDT by jrooney (CIA traitors)
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To: jrooney

Thanks, probably the same facts in both articles, just different bylines.


42 posted on 04/25/2006 10:42:16 PM PDT by Freedom is eternally right
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To: okie01

Book deal to follow.


43 posted on 04/26/2006 12:01:24 AM PDT by carumba (The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. Groucho)
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To: Lancey Howard

Since the Bush Justice Department refuses to prosecute the leakers of this and the NSA info, the Bush Whitehouse should shut the heck up about them. They obviously don't think the leaks are all that bad.


44 posted on 04/26/2006 1:15:20 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Ignore the Drive-by Media. Build the fence. Sí, Se Puede!)
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To: JaneAustin

<< the CIA authorized McCarthy on a number of occasions to talk with reporters >>

We can now see what her defense is shaping up to be. The CIA says she admitted sharing classified information to reporters. Her lawyer says she never confessed to "LEAKING" it.

So she will claim she believed she had the green light from someone senior to her to share the classified info with reporters, and it was therefore not an illegal "leak."


45 posted on 04/26/2006 1:39:12 AM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
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To: Lancey Howard

Take it to court, get some convictions.


46 posted on 04/26/2006 1:45:12 AM PDT by Loud Mime (The Answer: Turn Illegal immigrants into gasoline!)
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To: Lancey Howard
It is time for yet another Great Liberal Transformation, a media propaganda routine where seditious liberal nutcases are magically transformed into perceived victims.

How long before the Marxists trot out the "witch hunt" meme, aye?

Throw her ass in jail now.

47 posted on 04/26/2006 3:31:35 AM PDT by Reactionary (The Barking of the Native Moonbat is the Sound of Moral Nitwittery)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Coerced...To force to act or think in a certain way by use of pressure.

In my thinking, that 'pressure' could be she was faced with "We have the PROOF"


48 posted on 04/26/2006 4:33:14 AM PDT by RetSignman (( HELP...I'm trapped between these curved things))
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To: Lancey Howard
Maybe somebody told her the 'prison' story was a plant and she is claiming she did not release classified intel.
49 posted on 04/26/2006 4:39:46 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Just mythoughts

If my damaged memory serves me (or their recruiter may have stretched a little), CIA employees are under the 20 year rule for retirement eligibility the same as the armed forces. Thus she may be eligible to have her pension stripped. Not really sure about this one.
Anyhow Rush scored a big one refering to the Dims as the "Culture of Treason".


50 posted on 04/26/2006 5:02:58 AM PDT by libertyhoundusnr
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To: libertyhoundusnr
I have no clue how assured her pension is, but if what the CIA spokesman said yesterday is provable that is the least of her concern and sounds like a poor me play by the latest pretend whistle-blower.
51 posted on 04/26/2006 5:25:37 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Lancey Howard

save


52 posted on 04/26/2006 5:27:02 AM PDT by krunkygirl
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To: Wristpin; jrooney

Allow me...I've been shouting this from every thread since I came across it a couple days ago:

1998 African Embassy bombing charges by the Clinton administration against the perps were for WMDs.

Car bombs.


53 posted on 04/26/2006 5:32:04 AM PDT by freema (Proud Marine FRiend, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
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To: freema

I'm not following your post.


54 posted on 04/26/2006 6:00:01 AM PDT by Suzy Quzy ("When Cabals Go Kaboom"....upcoming book on Mary McCarthy's Coup-Plotters.)
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To: okie01

"Officials said that Ms. McCarthy's security clearance was pulled when she was fired, but that no consideration was given to taking away the pension she had earned as a career C.I.A. employee."

I predict there will be no "pension". The woman is a traitor.

Unless the CIA makes an example of this scum, the problem will continue.


55 posted on 04/26/2006 6:17:02 AM PDT by khnyny
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To: JaneAustin

No, it was not part of the NYT story. This sounds like more spinning from McCarthy's lawyers. Next we will learn that Porter Goss accompanied McCarthy on her meetings with the reporters.


56 posted on 04/26/2006 6:41:58 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Lancey Howard

"But intelligence officials would not say whether they believed that Ms. McCarthy had been a source for a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of articles in The Washington Post about secret C.I.A. detention centers abroad."

This source of officials should also be fired. I bet the "official" is another Clintonista.


57 posted on 04/26/2006 6:50:00 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Democrats = The Culture of Treason)
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To: USNBandit

"He didn't say she didn't do it. He only says she didn't admit it."

Obviously if she didn't admit it, she cannot be a whistleblower.


58 posted on 04/26/2006 6:51:22 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Democrats = The Culture of Treason)
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To: Wristpin

"This stuff should have been confronted earlier and harder."

Actually, we want this to be as close to November as possible. The closer it gets, the more the RATS could get bashed as Traitors to this country.

Citizens will always accept a bit of corruption as part of doing business. No one accepts treason.


59 posted on 04/26/2006 6:54:12 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Democrats = The Culture of Treason)
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn

"So she will claim she believed she had the green light from someone senior to her to share the classified info with reporters, and it was therefore not an illegal "leak.""

Want to bet it was a Clinton appointee?


60 posted on 04/26/2006 6:55:03 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Democrats = The Culture of Treason)
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