> Our Rotten IntelligenCIA
>
> April 26, 2006; Page A16
>
> Fired CIA officer Mary O. McCarthy went on
> offense Monday, denying through her lawyer that
> she has done anything wrong. But the agency is
> standing by its claim that she was dismissed last
> week because she "knowingly and willfully shared
> classified intelligence." It has been reported
> that one of her media contacts was Washington
> Post reporter Dana Priest, who just won a
> Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on the so-called
> "secret" prisons that the CIA allegedly used to
> house top level al Qaeda detainees in Eastern
> Europe.
...
> There is little doubt that the Washington Post
> story on alleged prisons in Europe has done
> enormous damage -- at a minimum, to our ability
> to secure future cooperation in the war on terror
> from countries that don't want their assistance
> to be exposed. Likewise, the New York Times
> wiretapping exposé may have ruined one of our
> most effective anti-al Qaeda surveillance
> programs. Ms. McCarthy denies being the source of
> these stories. But somebody inside the
> intelligence community was.
So her firing for leaking secret information about prisons that aren't secret and don't exist was justified in part because it will make such public nonexistant prisons embarrassing.
This is fun.
-- Andy