To all Concerned;

Looks like they nailed a CIA employee for talking to reporters. Guess she failed her polygraph ... must not have been to this website, poor SOB, they are going to really do her in. Thumbscrews to go !!! 

Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12423825/

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NBC: CIA officer fired after admitting leak
Officer allegedly failed polygraph, admitted giving reporter information

By Robert Windrem and Andrea Mitchell
NBC News
Updated: 7:41 p.m. ET April 21, 2006
WASHINGTON - 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.

Citing the Privacy Act, the CIA would not provide any details about the officer’s identity or assignments.

All CIA employees are required to sign a secrecy agreement upon being hired stating they are prohibited from discussing classified information with anyone not cleared to receive the material.

Before going public with her name, NBC News reached McCarthy's husband, Michael. He said he could not confirm that his wife had been fired from her career post. He declined further comment.

Priest said she could not comment on the firing, which she said she learned about from NBC News.

The Washington Post report caused an international uproar, and government officials have said it did significant damage to relationships between the U.S. and allied intelligence agencies.

CIA Director Porter Goss told the Senate in February that leaks to the media had damaged national security. Subsequently, Goss ordered an internal investigation on leaks involving classified security data. 

The probe led to the fired CIA officer, sources told NBC.

This leak is not linked to the recent scandal in the CIA involving undercover agent Valerie Plame’s identity’s being revealed, NBC reported.

Separately, the Justice Department is investigating New York Times stories about the National Security Agency’s domestic warrantless eavesdropping. Times reporters James Risen and Eric Lichtblau won a Pulitzer on Monday for their reporting on the issue.

The NSA and other agencies had requested the probe, sources told NBC.

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enjoy !!

Regards ....

nonombre wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2006 at 5:53pm:


From time.com: 
"Through the course of these investigations, a CIA officer acknowledged having unauthorized discussions with reporters "

Since the first countermeasure taught is "MAKE NO ADMISSIONS!" and it appears she did confess it is unlikely she visited this site.

Also it appears this was a specific issue polygraph not the routine 5 year screening:

"Goss spokeswoman Jennifer Millerwise Dyck would not discuss details but said the unauthorized disclosure was discovered in the course of "thorough internal investigations" that examined which CIA officers might have had access to classified information that had appeared in the news media."

nonombre wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2006 at 5:53pm:

Indeed, if true Mary violated the law, plain and simple.
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This is most likely the case. Like the NSA tapping and Plame case, this had also been referred to DoJ according to reports. It was considered a serious and damaging leak. Since the leaks would have involved contact with WaPo's Dana, peripheral (non-public) elements of this crime would be quite specific and possibly even lend themselves to the scientifically valid GKT. In any case the associated interrogation was obviously successful.

Marty

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Then why did it take a polygraph examination for this lady to tell the truth?  If she was such a "Patriot," then WHY didn't she have the GUTS to go public ???

Remember "Deep Throat?"  The "patriot" who outed the Nixon administration?  Well it turned out in the end that he did it because he was passed over for a promotion. 

Another "Patriot" in action?   

Mr. Maschke, your flavor of "patriots" I can live without.

Regards,

Nonombre

God only knows what they did to her in the interrogation to force an admission.  I know a lump of metal and wires wouldn't be enough to get me to talk.  Regardless of whether she is guilty or not...I hope they didn't force her to stay awake for weeks on end torturing her.

If the people that hid the prisons were interrogating her...I don't doubt she has already been punished sufficiently. 

I don't really have a strong opinion either way since too many facts are missing.  But I just can't figure out how a seasoned, life-long intelligence person fails a polygraph test and admits everything.

nonombre wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2006 at 5:53pm:


NoNombre,

Whats interesting to point out here is that yes she violated her trust but she did it in my opinion from conscience. Anyone of conscience and humanity would not just sit by and watch flagrant violations of human rights. It is my opinion and I would not have just sit by either. Wrong is wrong, even in war time. As a retired officer I had a strict code about following unlawful orders or actions. And these prisons and the actions being done by these patriotic public servants to other humans is wrong. So do spare me the patriotic rhetoric about supporting these types of activity. For the record I do not support anything where torture. intimidation, or violence is condoned for the greater good. The end never justifies the means.  Our government touts its human rights record, but again this administration see no point in following its own policies. If we are not a nation of law, then we are morally and legally bankrupt.
Be as disturbed as you want, but if I sit on her jury there is no way I would find her guilty. What she did will remain in my opinion a public service by outing illegal activities by a goverment that more and more heads towards a police state. 

Regards

EosJupiter wrote on Apr 23^rd, 2006 at 2:42am:


Ah yes, she was so brave that she hid in her office and had to be flushed out with a polygraph.  A perfect role model for the rest of us...

As always, my regards,

Nonombre