CIA Leaker funded Kerry

from PMSNBC

In a rare occurrence, the CIA fired an officer who acknowledged giving classified information to a reporter, NBC News learned Friday.

The officer flunked a polygraph exam before being fired on Thursday and is now under investigation by the Justice Department, NBC has learned.

Intelligence sources tell NBC News the accused officer, Mary McCarthy, worked in the CIA's inspector general's office and had worked for the National Security Council under the Clinton and and George W. Bush administrations.

The leak pertained to stories on the CIA’s rumored secret prisons in Eastern Europe, sources told NBC. The information was allegedly provided to Dana Priest of the Washington Post, who wrote about CIA prisons in November and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize on Monday for her reporting.

Sources said the CIA believes McCarthy had more than a dozen unauthorized contacts with Priest. Information about subjects other than the prisons may have been leaked as well.

The sources spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the firing.

CIA spokeswoman Jennifer Millerwise confirmed the dismissal. Millerwise said she was unsure whether there had ever been a firing before at the agency for leaking to the media.

I don't know for a fact that this is the same Mary McCarthy, but her location (just outside of DC) and her occupation (U.S. Government/Analyst-- totally CIA) do seem to match up.

Does it matter she's a big-money donor to Kerry and the Democrats?

Well, let's ask the question the opposite way. If she was caught leaking secret information that damaged a Clinton Administration, and was a big donor to Jeb Bush and the Ohio State Republicans, do you think the MSM would note that in passing?

The CIA is politicized, and some liberals have lost their goddamned minds. There is no limit any longer to what they are willing to do to subvert the current democratically elected government and claw their way back to power.


To find McCarthy in the list of political donors, go here, chose the 2002-2006 election cycles, enter "McCarthy," and then scan down for "Mary." You can't find her if you just type in "Mary McCarthy." Not sure why.

And I also can't post the link to the search results. You just have to go there and do the search yourself.

Here's one FEC disclosure report The image for the Kerry donation isn't scanned yet, it seems.

A "Michael McCarthy," listed as her husband in the article, also lives in Bethesda with the same zip code, and he too donated to Kerry in 2004.

I looked for this at the site I was on for confirmation, but didn't find a Michael with a Bethesda address. I guess I just missed it, though, because a second check yields:

John "Jenjis Khan" Kerry. Babs Mikulski.

So, you know, I just can't wait until we're all assured that these are political centrists who "vote Democrat sometimes, Republican other times" and that Mary McCarthy illegally leaked classified information only out of a sense of "higher patriotism."

smithers_jones said:
There is a significant moral and ethical difference between a low level bureaucrat who the breaks law in order to expose government corruption and wrongdoing and a high level administration official who breaks the law to propagate and commit acts of corruption.

The officials said that McCarthy could face criminal prosecution, and that the Justice Department had been apprised of developments in the internal CIA probes. One U.S. official indicated that she had engaged in a "pattern of contacts" with more than one reporter.

McCarthy has held a series of high-level positions in the intelligence community during a career spanning two decades, according to a short biography posted on the website of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank where she was a visiting fellow in 2001 before returning to intelligence work.

According to the biography, McCarthy served as senior director for intelligence programs at the White House's National Security Council under President Clinton and, until July 2001, for President Bush.

Previously, she held positions with the National Intelligence Council, which formerly was based at the CIA and is responsible for producing assessments on major national security issues.

ProfessorPlum said:
I find it incredibly disturbing that while we are at war and, by the way, have a republican controlled government, you are complaining about the media leaning to the left. Is this all you have to think about?

BillHaverchuck said:
The secret prison story ran way after the election. How are her donations to Kerry relevant?

BillHaverchuck said:
The secret prison story ran way after the election. How are her donations to Kerry relevant?

AceTracer said:
Central to what? I don't really get your point.

AceTracer said:
Oh and say hi to Mr. Uckots for me, nice to see he's still putting things into perspective.

AceTracer said:
Ok, I think I get it now.

To answer your question, yes they both broke the law and should both be tried equally with due diligence.

As to whether the media should give it as much attention. Well, one was the White House Chief of Staff, the most powerful unelected office you can hold in our government, the other was a "CIA desk jockey" as you so eloquently put it.

What do you think?

UpTight said:
Meanwhile, the "story" that Mccarthy & Dana Priest cooked up together, seems to be groundless, so maybe it is just plain, simple sedition rather than a leak of a genuine secret.

De Vries came under sharp criticism from the EU parliamentarians for refusing to consider earlier testimonies from a German and a Canadian who described to the committee how they were kidnapped and imprisoned by foreign agents, and from a former British ambassador to Uzbekistan who alleged that British intelligence services used information obtained under torture.

''There is so much circumstantial evidence, you can't close your eyes from the fact that this is probably happening," Dutch deputy and civil liberties activist Kathalijne Buitenweg said

and

Former British ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray, who was fired after alleging Britain knowingly received intelligence extracted under torture, repeated his allegations to the committee yesterday. He said the British foreign service had confirmed to him that Britain had such a policy.

... The committee plans to go to Washington to interview former and current CIA officials and Bush administration officials.

UpTight said:

The election may be irrelevent.

The donations prove her political allegiance.

And that is relevent - indeed central.

UpTight said:

What do I think?

I think that if this was a Republican concoction the Lib media would be over it like a hot rash.

Post journalists have been the most pompously, self-righteous hacks I've ever met,

But despite this farce of story, they are STILL going to deny that they are a Democrat Party newspaper. They are still going to protest their impartiality and ethics.

BillHaverchuck said:

Allied towards exposing secret prisons on foreign soil? That bitch.

NickFaust said:
A Google search indicates that there are two Mary McCarthys in Bethesda
Mary Mccarthy, (301) 564-3178, 3 Pooks Hill Rd, Bethesda, MD 20814 Google Maps Yahoo! Maps MapQuest
Mary Mccarthy, (301) 320-2248, 6825 Wilson Ln, Bethesda, MD 20817 Google Maps Yahoo! Maps MapQuest

Before we go off half cocked (oops! too late!) we should make sure which one is which.

Oh fuck, let's just hang both of them.

[Edited on Apr 22, 2006 by NickFaust]

The sources spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the firing.

UpTight said:
Having hung, drawn and quartered Scooter Libby leaking stuff to the press, I wonder if the Liberal - sorry "Main Stream" media will be quite so vigourous in the pursuit of truth and justice when it comes to Mary McCarthy.

UpTight said:

how many Mary O McCarthy's are there?