CIA Officer Is Fired for Media Leaks

The CIA fired a long-serving intelligence officer for sharing classified information with The Washington Post and other news organizations, officials said yesterday, as the agency continued an aggressive internal search for anyone who may have discussed intelligence with the news media.

CIA officials said the career intelligence officer failed more than one polygraph test and acknowledged unauthorized contacts with reporters. The “officer knowingly and willfully shared classified intelligence, including operational information” with journalists, the agency said in a statement yesterday.

Sounds plenty illegal to me. The Chief shudders to think what theconsequences would be if HE had been involved in a security breach, at the time when he worked with classified material in the Navy.

The CIA did not reveal the identity of the employee, who was dismissed Thursday, but NBC News reported last night she is Mary McCarthy. An intelligence source confirmed that the report was accurate.

So, who is this:

McCarthy began her career in government as an analyst at the CIA in 1984, public documents show. She served as special assistant to the president and senior director for intelligence programs at the White House during the Clinton administration and the first few months of the Bush administration. She later returned to the CIA.

TA DA! One of Clintons devotees! Whay am I NOT surprised!

The CIA’s statement did not name the reporters it believes were involved, but several intelligence officials said The Post’s Dana Priest was among them. This week, Priest won the Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting for articles about the agency, including one that revealed the existence of secret, CIA-run prisons in Eastern Europe and elsewhere.

Too much – a REAL Judas Priest!

Intelligence officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the dismissed officer identified by others as McCarthy has not been charged with any crime and is not believed to be the subject of a Justice Department investigation.

Too bad about that. There SHOULD be one!

The officer’s employment was terminated for violating a secrecy agreement all employees are required to sign when they join the agency. The agreement prohibits them from sharing classified information with unauthorized individuals. The CIA said the firing was the result of an internal investigation initiated in late January of all “officers who were involved in or exposed to certain intelligence programs. Through the course of these investigations a CIA official acknowledged having unauthorized discussion with the media” and was terminated, the CIA statement said.

Priest, who also won the George Polk Award and a prize from the Overseas Press Club this week for her articles, declined to comment yesterday.

Wonder why no comment? Oh, yeah – that bit about “…anything you say may be used against you in a couirt of law.” Heh heh heh!

Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. said people who provide citizens the information they need to hold their government accountable should not “come to harm for that.”

Hey Downie – can you say “H-U-B-R-I-S”? YOU are above the US National Security establishment, and are exempt from the same laws that apply to us mere mortals?

F.U. and the horse you rode in on, you treasonable, seditious, self-righeous, future denizen of the nether regions. Likewise to the rest of your ilk too. Hanging is too noble for you.

“The reporting that Dana did was very important accountability reporting about how the CIA and the rest of the U.S. government have been conducting the war on terror,” Downie said. “Whether or not the actions of the CIA or other agencies have interfered with anyone’s civil liberties is important information for Americans to know and is an important part of our jobs.”

IT IS NOT YOUR JOB! YOU ARE NOT ELECTED TO OFFICE! YOU DO NOT HAVE CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY TO SET POLICY AND TEAR DOWN THOSE WHO DO HAVE THESE RESPONSIBILITIES UNDER (WHAT’S LEFT OF) OUR CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC. IF YOU BREAK THE LAWS, TOUGH SHIT FOR YOU!!!!

IF YOU DO THE CRIME, YOU SHOULD DO THE TIME!

F.E.T.E.