CIA Officer, Mary McCarthy, fired over media leaks - Condi Rice "allegations" - double standard here?

One was a leak and one was an information briefing.

The CIA agent leaked information to the public that the CIA and the Bush administration would rather the public remain ignorant about.

Condi merely passed information on to her and Murka's superiors.

Bah.

If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck it must be a duck.

"Leaking" information about serious crimes within the American government is HEROISM. Mary McCarthy was reportedly whistleblowing the administration's illegal and immoral secret CIA torture prisons in Poland and elsewhere:

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The CIA's inquiry focused in part on identifying McCarthy's role in supplying information for a Nov. 2, 2005, article in the Post by Dana Priest, a national security reporter for the newspaper. The article reported that the intelligence agency was sending terrorism suspects to clandestine detention centers in several countries, including some in Eastern Europe.
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Here is a report from Human Rights Watch:

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Further investigation is needed to determine the possible involvement of Poland and Romania in the extremely serious activities described in the Washington Post article. Arbitrary incommunicado detention is illegal under international law. It often acts as a foundation for torture and mistreatment of detainees. U.S. government officials, speaking anonymously to journalists in the past, have admitted that some secretly held detainees have been subjected to torture and other mistreatment, including waterboarding (immersing or smothering a detainee with water until he believes he is about to drown). Countries that allow secret detention programs to operate on their territory are complicit in the human rights abuses committed against detainees.
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Mary McCarthy is a true heroine for our times. I only wish that EVERY government employee would take the same whistleblowing approach toward government criminals. Publicity is the only hope we have of stopping such crime, since by definition it is a fox-guarding-the-henhouse situation.

I have to agree with you, Old Fashioned Catholic, whistleblowers are about the only public servants who DO provide a service to the public.

My point is that bush declared he'd fire the "leaker" on the Valerie Plame case, and anyone close to bush in his particular administration who meets the criteria needs to get his or her butt slammed. Including Rice if the charges hold.

Mary McCarthy joins a long line of patriotic American whistleblowers.

Condi on the other hand, sux.

need you ask? Double standard? I have been living by double standards all my life They can and I can't -that is all there is to that! :)

McCarthy has confessed after failing a polygraph examination that she had discussed classified information with reporters on more than one occassion. I wonder how long this relationship with Dana Priest has flourished? I wonder if McCarthy authorized the Wilson uranium expedition? McCarthy worked in the clinton White House under Sandy Burger; isn't that interesting?

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Bush Administration Is Focus of Inquiry
By Mike Allen and Dana Priest
Washington Post

Sunday 28 September 2003

CIA Agent's Identity Was Leaked to Media
At CIA Director George J. Tenet's request, the Justice Department is looking into an allegation that administration officials leaked the name of an undercover CIA officer to a journalist, government sources said yesterday.

The operative's identity was published in July after her husband, former U.S. ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, publicly challenged President Bush's claim that Iraq had tried to buy "yellowcake" uranium ore from Africa for possible use in nuclear weapons. Bush later backed away from the claim.

The intentional disclosure of a covert operative's identity is a violation of federal law.

The officer's name was disclosed on July 14 in a syndicated column by Robert D. Novak, who said his sources were two senior administration officials.

Yesterday, a senior administration official said that before Novak's column ran, two top White House officials called at least six Washington journalists and disclosed the identity and occupation of Wilson's wife. Wilson had just revealed that the CIA had sent him to Niger last year to look into the uranium claim and that he had found no evidence to back up the charge. Wilson's account touched off a political fracas over Bush's use of intelligence as he made the case for attacking Iraq.

"Clearly, it was meant purely and simply for revenge," the senior official said of the alleged leak.

Sources familiar with the conversations said the leakers were seeking to undercut Wilson's credibility. They alleged that Wilson, who was not a CIA employee, was selected for the Niger mission partly because his wife had recommended him. Wilson said in an interview yesterday that a reporter had told him that the leaker said, "The real issue is Wilson and his wife."

A source said reporters quoted a leaker as describing Wilson's wife as "fair game."

The official would not name the leakers for the record and would not name the journalists. The official said there was no indication that Bush knew about the calls.

It is rare for one Bush administration official to turn on another. Asked about the motive for describing the leaks, the senior official said the leaks were "wrong and a huge miscalculation, because they were irrelevant and did nothing to diminish Wilson's credibility."

Wilson, while refusing to confirm his wife's occupation, has suggested publicly that he believes Bush's senior adviser, Karl C. Rove, broke her cover. Wilson said Aug. 21 at a public forum in suburban Seattle that it is of keen interest to him "to see whether or not we can get Karl Rove frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs."

White House press secretary Scott McClellan said yesterday that he knows of no leaks about Wilson's wife. "That is not the way this White House operates, and no one would be authorized to do such a thing," McClellan said. "I don't have any information beyond an anonymous source in a media report to suggest there is anything to this. If someone has information of this nature, then he or she should report it to the Department of Justice."

McClellan, who Rove had speak for him, said of Wilson's comments: "It is a ridiculous suggestion, and it is simply not true." McClellan was asked about Wilson's charge at a White House briefing Sept. 16 and said the accusation is "totally ridiculous."

Administration officials said Tenet sent a memo to the Justice Department raising a series of questions about whether a leaker had broken federal law by disclosing the identity of an undercover officer. The CIA request was reported Friday night by MSNBC.com. Administration sources familiar with the matter said the Justice Department is determining whether a formal investigation is warranted.

An intelligence official said Tenet "doesn't like leaks."

The CIA request could reopen the rift between the White House and the intelligence community that emerged this summer when Bush and his senior aides blamed Tenet for the inclusion of the now-discredited uranium claim -- the so-called "16 words" -- in the State of the Union address in January.

Tenet issued a statement taking responsibility for the CIA's approval of the address before it was delivered, but made clear the CIA had earlier warned the White House not to use the allegations about uranium ore. After an ensuing rush of leaks over White House handling of intelligence, Bush's aides said they believed in retrospect it had been a political mistake to blame Tenet.

The Intelligence Protection Act, passed in 1982, imposes maximum penalties of 10 years in prison and $50,000 in fines for unauthorized disclosure by government employees with access to classified information.

Members of the administration, especially Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, have been harshly critical of unauthorized leakers, and White House spokesmen are often dismissive of questions about news reports based on unnamed sources. The FBI is investigating senators for possibly leaking intercept information about Osama bin Laden.

The only recipient of a leak about the identity of Wilson's wife who went public with it was Novak, the conservative columnist, who wrote in The Washington Post and other newspapers that Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, "is an agency operative on weapons of mass destruction." He added, "Two senior administration officials told me that Wilson's wife suggested sending him to Niger."

When Novak told a CIA spokesman he was going to write a column about Wilson's wife, the spokesman urged him not to print her name "for security reasons," according to one CIA official. Intelligence officials said they believed Novak understood there were reasons other than Plame's personal security not to use her name, even though the CIA has declined to confirm whether she was undercover.

Novak said in an interview last night that the request came at the end of a conversation about Wilson's trip to Niger and his wife's role in it. "They said it's doubtful she'll ever again have a foreign assignment," he said. "They said if her name was printed, it might be difficult if she was traveling abroad, and they said they would prefer I didn't use her name. It was a very weak request. If it was put on a stronger basis, I would have considered it."

After the column ran, the CIA began a damage assessment of whether any foreign contacts Plame had made over the years could be in danger. The assessment continues, sources said.

The CIA occasionally asks news organizations to withhold the names of undercover agents, and news organizations usually comply. An intelligence official told The Post yesterday that no further harm would come from repeating Plame's name.

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McCarthy should be considered a National Hero.

I do not consider the actions of traitors and seditionists as heroic. I hope to see her chopping weeds in prison garb at Leavenworth.

She is another Libbie DIM America hating Bitch just like dimbulb Seedy "No Tombstone for Casey" Shithead.

2433 is correct.

Mary McCarthy leaked CLASSIFIED information in violation of the law, and the sworn oath she took.

She is a traitor.

Even the liberal Washington Post has reported that McCarthy donated $ 2000 to John Kerry's campaign.

She is an unethical pig, not a heroine.

It doesn't even occur to some of you that we may have had a compelling reason for so called "secret prisons", assuming they even existed.

If a terrorist is about to kill ten million Americans, and the only way to get the information out of them is to torture them, that is the MORAL thing to do, to save the ten million people.

The war on terror is for SUCKERS, you sucker.

It ain't about torturing paper tigers to protect Americunsss...it's about one day being able to torture YOU without any of your neighbors caring to put up a fight. Believe it.

"Even the liberal Washington Post has reported that McCarthy donated $ 2000 to John Kerry's campaign."

McCarthy and her landscaping husband donated a total of $10,000 to various DIM cadidates and causes in the last election cycle.




"Unbelievable, AJ. How can the NYTs have any credibility left? With just a little internet savvy, we have uncovered the $10,000 in 2004. The woman admitted to leaking and they still have doubts she would do it and the NYTs prints that?"

double standard

Forget Fitzmas, we are going to have McCarthymas. This is going to be great; a humongous scandal that will ensnare many DIM operatives and clintonoids, and of course their useful idiots of the MSM. Bush and Rove have slowly and carefully put the noose around their necks, given them the bait, and they are going to hang themselves. This is going to make WaterGate look like kindergarten. Strategery seems to work and timing is everything in hardball politics.
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Rockefeller did you "teller?"- XI - Mary is only the beginning

Much speculation has surrounded the outing of Mary McCarthy, the CIA rogue who has been the "deep throat" for the media on everything from the CIA prison's story to yet to be determine other acts of espionage, and whether or not she was found out by "random" polygraphs or as a part of a sting.

The fact is that she did fail polygraphs AFTER her "loose lips" activity was tipped to investigators. Interesting things happen when you put on the "full court press", somebody sqawks.

Rick Moran's theory is a good one in that in these types of investigations the "plastic cheese" is planted to draw the rat or rats. I can tell you that was a part of the strategy, but Mary's discovery definitely came as a part of a tip, most likely on the promise of immunity, which I find most intriguing and amusing. Imagine a mole on the inside who is now spilling the beans on those leakers - such as Mary - who have been leaking stories over the last three years. Its going to be fun to watch the rats devour one another to save their own hides.

As we all know - or should know - since before and especially during the 2004 election cycle leaks were coming out at a fast and furious pace. It was if the State Department and the CIA had suddenly become a 24 hour news service, leaking information specifically designed to undermine the Bush administration, the war effort, and ulitmately was intended to defeat the President's reelection effort.

We now know that McCarthy was a hire of Sandy Burglar, a Clintonista, and a heavy contributor to failed Presidential candidate John Kerry. In addition she worked out of the IG's office of the CIA who would have directly worked on the referral to the JD of the Valerie Plame Game. As the Agency is a small sorority, I immediately wonder just how close she was and is to Valerie Plame.

As I noted from the beginning of the Plame Game, the story was never about Joe Wilson's boondoggle to Niger per-se, but about an elaborate coup by a group of rogue ops to undermine the President of the United States in war time. This is much more than just the leak of CIA prisons - a story which in itself is false, but about the oldest type of war waged and which the CIA is expert at. That being toppling Governments by misinformation propaganda designed to sow discord among the people. Thus the Plame Game was and continues to be a ruse - a paper tiger- a fact that Fitzgerald and his bungling prosecution continually reminds us of.

The MSM is predictably trying to throw cold water on this new story as AJ Strata comments on the NY Times take. But the pure and simple fact is as I told you this is going to be a vindicating summer for supporters of the Bush Administration.

Also in spite of what the WAPO editorial board thinksabout it's supposed right to print classified information, the JD is specifically aiming at them and more specifically reporters who have printed that information. McCarthy has been gabbing it up quite a bit over the years and no doubt will turn on her "friends and contacts" to avoid the slammer.

For those who have wondered why this administration never seems to "fight back", that is now effectually over.

The game is on.

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2433,

violating the Constitution and International law is NEITHER legal NOR is it the way this Country got to be where it's been but rapidly FADING from!

Exposing the stupidity of the current government; it's lies, cheating, killing, and more certain, is NOT traitorous or sedition.

If you believe it is, you're as stupid as our governmental leaders.

Rice Allegedly Leaked Defense Info
Posted Apr 22, 2006 11:28 AM PST
Category: COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS


I am re-linking this, because upon reflection, this is apparently a move to link Condi with the accused AIPAC spies in such a way that they cannot be prosecuted without also prosecuting the Secretary of State.
In hindsight, it seems that the specific law under which the accused spies were charged was chosen to give them the greatest possibility of acquittal.

The linkage of Condi to the accused spies carries with it a not-so-subtle message that if the prosecution proceeds, AIPAC's defenders are prepared to go after targets at the very top of the US Government.

whistle blowers are leakers--traitors

leak (de)classified information--double

standard--what double standard?

whistle blowers keep the crooks in DC honest-
of course they are afraid of them, you idiot;
If Cheney and Rove ever get their due-they had better take a good supply of KY with them-I hear being 'dry humped' aint much fun -and would certainly humiliate these piggies in Prison

THIS is all f*cking stupid. Every single one of these dipshits need to knock it off. I feel nothing for Plame. The bitch got herself into her own damn mess putting her husband there. That act alone is questionable. She was not undercover at the time and needs to shut up already. She too dontaed money to Gore. Clearly she has agenda. Of course that is nothing compared to Bush's agenda. Someone in his office single handedly destroyed Plame's career in undercover work. They didn't break a law but were reckless and just plain stupid.

This is like the wiretapping. When you work for certain government agencies you do not turn your back on the contract you sign. Part of being a spook or working for a spook agency is to keep secrets. If you feel something is wrong there are other outlets.

This type of behaviour is dangerous and even though I doubt it has cost anyone's life it is dangerous and reckless to keep releasing classified information. No there should not be hidden camps in Poland and we should not tap lines without warrants but that is not for these people to decide. Bush pushes the limits. He has lawyers that tell him those limits. McCarthy could do serious damage to her country just as who ever leaked the wiretapping issue did.

sing a song when you feel fallen, becuase no one is defeated as long as you can raise your voice and fist along with an agonizing nation. The path is sad as long as no one walks upon it. Melodies there are many but as no one sings them they are like dead silhouette in the dark, for them I want to say there is clarity that will grow in conscience and never burn off,sing to the people melodies of truth.The leaves are sad when they began to fall from their tree.

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>whistle blowers are leakers--traitors
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>leak (de)classified information--double
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>standard--what double standard?

OK, so you agree that Bush and friends are traitors for leaking a CIA Agents identity.

Good, glad to see you're fair about this.


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THE PARENTAL STATE

APRIL 22, 2006. I'm sure you've all experienced the routine, either at home when you were a child, or at school, or on the job: the honcho in charge makes up the rules as he goes along, and you get your legs caught in the shredder.

What was iron-clad policy yesterday becomes irrelevant today. Rule X is suddenly scrapped and rule Y replaces it. You were told to go HERE, and the boss changes up on you and tells you to go THERE. In fact, he may come down on you because you followed his orignal order. You're supposed to be a mind reader.

Eventually, you get the message. The boss is a dictator. He always was. You're the child. You do what you're told, even if involves running from pillar to post. There is no policy. He is king, pope, and general.

When we expand this set-up to the state itself, the government, there is a little more fluffery and explanation and lawyering.

For example, we now have a situation where NSA has been exposed with its pants down, running a wide-ranging domestic surveillance program on Americans. And the CIA has likewise been caught sending suspected terrorists to foreign prisons where there are no rules against torture. In fact, it seems that some of those prisons (e.g., in Eastern Europe) are actually run by the CIA.

Daddy broke the laws. All sorts of laws.

But Daddy has a new plan.

Who cares if the CIA and NSA are culpable? The real crimes have to do with government employees leaking the facts of those crimes. Yes. Sure. That's what's actually going on, and the leakers must be caught and punished.

In this regard, a CIA employee, named by NBC as Mary McCarthy, has been put through the mill with polygraphs and the like, and she has confessed to passing "classified information" to reporters, including Dana Priest of the Washington Post. It seems that McCarthy told Priest about the CIA-run foreign prisons. McCarthy has been fired.

The CIA has been, for months, carrying on an internal witchhunt to find leakers inside the Agency. There is rebellion in the ranks.

The same kind of rebellion is taking place at the Pentagon, where employees have gotten sick and tired of directing a war based on lies and more lies that have emanated from the White House and a DOD cadre of empire builders.

But Daddy says, "I order all the actions. Your only job is to obey. It doesn't matter how I explain my orders or whether you think I'm lying. You obey and submit. If you think I'm breaking the law, keep your mouth shut. Do what you're told."

This has nothing to do with patriotism or deserved loyalty. It has to do with the inherent privilege of the monarch.

The present administration is making noises about an across-the-board prosecution of reporters who accept and write about leaks from government employees. It's also noising off about forcing reporters to reveal their sources whenever and wherever it wants to apply pressure.

Clearly, the king is pissed off.

You'd think this would provoke an all-out revolution among the ranks of media scribes who attend White House press conferences. You know, one by one they stand up and say, "We're not taking this shit anymore."

But so far, that's not happening. It hasn't happened to the White House press officers, and it hasn't happened to Bush---who would, no doubt, lose it in the face of a concerted and unrelenting live attack.

Catch any C-Span broadcast of Tony Blair, the slick one, dealing with routine blasts from Brit legislators as he handles issues of the day in Parliament. They do it differently over there. It doesn't make a dent in Blair's coiff---but at the White House, Bush would melt down.

Yesterday, I exposed the absurd contradictions taking place in another realm of government: the public-health monopoly. Bird flu is going to kill us all. Wait a minute---bird flu won't become a whisper of a pandemic. Different words spoken out of the sides of different mouths.

This is called a clue. When an official body that has, long ago, overstepped its defined boundaries keeps on creating reality for the rest of us, this gets into habitual lying and habitual criminal activity...and during the cover up, the bosses say yes means no and no means yes.

"We didn't commit a crime. The people who showed we did commit a crime---they are the criminals."

When citizens can no longer support these official lunacies, they are faced with a choice. They can create their own reality.

They have to cross the road and take on the future themselves.

So when I write backgrounders on my workshops and talk about manifestation, I'm not talking about changing the color of the nail polish in a salon from pink to blue. I'm not talking about doily power. I'm not talking about eating Ben and Jerry rather than Dairy Queen. I'm not talking about watching CSI rather than Law and Order.



JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com

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OK, so you agree that Bush and friends are traitors for leaking a CIA Agents identity.



No. The President can declassify any information he feels needs declassification. If he declassifies some information he can distribute it in any manner he feels will be most effective. It is his right under law.

Plame was not covert in any event.

double standard...ya think?

A CIA officer blows the whistle on illegal activity and gets fired......par for this course.