CIA Leaker Fired

NBC News' Andrea Mitchell is reporting that a CIA agent has been fired in connection with Dana Priest's Washington Post article on CIA secret prisons.
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.
Let's hope they throw the book at her. She's compromised CIA operations because of a political agenda. The CIA has been trying to undercut President Bush for at least three years now.
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.
Mary McCarthy, who worked in the CIA's inspector general's office, compromised ongoing CIA operations. That's inexcusable. I hope this is just the first of many arrests of CIA subversives.

Cross-posted at California Conservative

Posted Friday, April 21, 2006 6:40 PM

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