Are we seeing a "non-denial denial" from Mary McCarthy via Rand Beers in her 2nd-hand statement today?
The "pattern of behavior" claim (stopping short of claiming any specific leak from her) may also explain her so-called 'categorical' denial that she was THE LEAKER.... again, assuming she's not just outright lying (which is always a reasonable presumption when dealing with Clintonista hacks), she may think she is being artful......
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1620891/posts
It's the old "non-denial denial" so well practiced in DC: make a very specific denial in wording that may be (according to someone's construal) literally true, while you are squirting black ink like a squid all over the larger picture. SO, maybe just maybe she did not turn over any specific piece(s) of information or document(s) to any reporters..... instead, her role was to play guide and mentor to Dana Priest (and others?)..... perhaps they had a secret signal so that Thyphoid Mary could affirm or deny the validity of certain assertions and lines of inquiry without actually uttering the words..... that way, in a Clintonesque manner, Mary may feel her conscience is salved when she says "I DID NOT HAVE TREASONOUS INTERCOURSE WITH THAT REPORTER, MISS PRIEST".........
Pouting Spooks Leak to ABC News
Never Yet Melted ^ | December 5, 2005 | JDZ
Posted on 12/05/2005 7:24:38 PM PST by Venator
ABC News is reporting that Current and former CIA officers speaking to ABC News on the condition of confidentiality say the United States scrambled to get all the suspects off European soil before Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived there today. The officers say 11 top al Qaeda suspects have now been moved to a new CIA facility in the North African desert.
The disgrunted intelligence officers even disclosed an actual list of 12 high-value targets allegedly held by the CIA, and ABC is reporting it :
Abu Zubaydah: Held first in Thailand then Poland
Ibn Al-Shaykh al-Libi: Held in Poland. Previously held in Pakistan/Afghanistan
Abdul Rahim al-Sharqawi: Held in Poland
Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri: Held in Poland
Ramzi Binalshibh: Held in Poland
Mohammed Omar Abdel-Rahman: Held in Poland
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed: Held in Poland
Waleed Mohammed bin Attash: Held in Poland
Hambali: In U.S. custody. Kept isolated from other high-value targets.
Hassan Ghul: Held in Poland.
Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani: Held in Poland
Abu Faraj al-Libbi...