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2006-04-22 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-04-22 01:06|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It's just a temp job. What I really want to do is to write the Great American Novel.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-04-22 09:45|| 2006-04-22 09:45|| Front Page Top

#2 how lucky for her that her name is Mary McCarthy - seeing as how easy it will be for the Kos Kiddies to impose her into the female victim of Joe McCarthy.

The Evil Karl Rove with back-from-the-never-dead spirits of Nixon and Joe McCarthy intend to crucify this poor patriotic American, who alone had the guts to stand up against the evil CIA and let the truth be known.

It's a canned, made for Hollywood plot.

Posted by 2b 2006-04-22 11:04|| 2006-04-22 11:04|| Front Page Top

#3 She should be in a cell next to Jonathan Polland and John Walker--and that's only because we'd never get a death penalty conviction. Traitor.

Posted by mac 2006-04-22 11:29|| 2006-04-22 11:29|| Front Page Top

#4 From Belmont Club...

1998: Washington â National Security Advisor Samuel R. Berger announced June 16 the appointment of Mary OâNeil McCarthy as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Intelligence Programs.

2001: McCarthy joins the CSIS think tank. Three of her fellow experts are Zbigniew Brzezinski, General Wesley Clark, General Anthony Zinni

2001: McCarthy and Richard Clarke work on a plan to counter the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Posted by 3dc 2006-04-22 13:52|| 2006-04-22 13:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Flopping Ace's has backgrounder with photos

Posted by 3dc 2006-04-22 13:54|| 2006-04-22 13:54|| Front Page Top

#6
Mary O. McCarthy testifies to 911 commission - GlobalSecurity.org

bio there:
Dr. Mary O. McCarthy, a CIA officer, is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, researching and writing on intelligence matters. Previously (from 1996-2001) she had served) as a Special Assistant to the President (Clinton and Bush) and Senior Director for Intelligence Programs on the National Security Council Staff. Prior to moving to the White House, Dr. McCarthy served on the National Intelligence Council as National Intelligence Officer for Warning, and Deputy NIO for Warning. She began her career at CIA in the Directorate of Intelligence in analytic and managerial positions in the areas of Africa and Latin America.

Prior to beginning her government service, Dr. McCarthy spent time in the private sector as a Director, then Vice President of BERI, S.A., a Swiss-based company conducting risk assessments for international businesses and banks; and in academics, teaching at the University of Minnesota and serving as Director, Social Science Data Archive, at Yale University.

Dr. McCarthy has lectured and written on the relationship between policy and intelligence, on the problem of intelligence warning, and on numerous topics involving the risks associated with international business. She has also published a book on the social history of Ghana. Her Ph.D. in history is from the University of Minnesota.

Posted by 3dc 2006-04-22 14:51|| 2006-04-22 14:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Get 'em Goss. Worth loosing a seat.

Posted by 6 2006-04-22 18:20|| 2006-04-22 18:20|| Front Page Top

#8 I'd be willing to bet a pint of Guinness she's still holding an TS/SCI.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-04-22 19:01|| 2006-04-22 19:01|| Front Page Top

#9 Several former veteran C.I.A. officials said the dismissal of an agency employee over a leak was rare and perhaps unprecedented.

And these anonymous former officials don't see this as a problem?

Besoeker, what is a TS/SCI?

Posted by trailing wife 2006-04-22 19:32|| 2006-04-22 19:32|| Front Page Top

#10 TW, that's the code for special compartmentalized top secret info. It indicates the information in question is the most sensitive we have. People are granted SCI access on a highly restricted need to know and only a small number of people have SCI clearance for more than one area of info.

Posted by lotp 2006-04-22 19:43|| 2006-04-22 19:43|| Front Page Top

#11 Top Secret security clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-04-22 19:47|| 2006-04-22 19:47|| Front Page Top

#12 Leavenworth if there's any justice

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-04-22 20:00|| 2006-04-22 20:00|| Front Page Top

#13 Nope. You blow a poly, they pull your ticket to EVERYTHING in a hurry.

Been there, know people who have done that (blown poly).

Can't say much more, other than its a serious item and you're looking at loss of clearance+access, loss of employment and criminal charges depending on what you did to blow that poly.

Posted by Oldspook 2006-04-22 22:19|| 2006-04-22 22:19|| Front Page Top

#14 IMHO if there is any justice,they will have her charged damn fast - and start rolliing all the other leakers too.

If she did this for political reasons, then she should be charged with treason. Classified information is classified for a reason. And if you leak it, you have broken your oath that you took when you wre cleared.

More importantly, you have broken the oath to uphold and defend the Constitution. You've screwed every citizen in this nation by reducing its ability to secure and defend itself against enemies who would destroy it.

IMHO, hanging is too good for her if she's guilty.

Posted by Oldspook 2006-04-22 22:34|| 2006-04-22 22:34|| Front Page Top

#15 "the president approves the leak of a highly classified N.I.E."

FYI - I doubt thats a CIA person speaking. That really raises this old dog's hackles.

Because they KNOW that the President, as CinC, and as Cheif Executive does not LEAK - he DECLASSIFIES. Its inherent in his authority under the Constitution.

These reporters making shit up or are they talking to people pretending to be CIA or are they talking to political hacks inside the company? Thats the only choices there, given the remarks at the top of my post and the bottom of that article.

This really burns me up. The Amreican peoplr are getting screwed by inaccurate, politically biased bullshit being passed off as news.

We had to put up with Reagan playing possibly decrypted intercepts for public consumption to expose the Soviets lies about KAL-007 -- the declassification of which may have exposed the hell out of sources and methods! (I cannot really comment any further). Where was the furor then formthe press?

Its up to the President to judge whether those risks outweight the ones involved in leaving the public uninformed and allowing lies about the Government to stand. We are supposed to present the issues, the risks, and the consequences as best we can. But the person sitting int he Oval Office is the one that makes the call. You know the President, the one who is empowered to do just those sorts of things?

To the "CIA employee" who said that to a reporter: Try reading the Constitution numb-nuts - and if you cant find a copy ask around in the Ops shop instead of the IG's office or some other dickless deskbound asshole analysis center. Looka at the articles in the front. The CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES -- You know, thet document you swore to uphold and defend - the one you are violating every time you undermine the statutory and legal authority of the President!

Makre me as steaming hot about this.

Posted by Oldspook 2006-04-22 22:46|| 2006-04-22 22:46|| Front Page Top

#16 caught that too, OS and I'm only on the outside. A reporter who covers this would have to be willfully ignorant to say the quote, but I repeat myself

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-04-22 22:53|| 2006-04-22 22:53|| Front Page Top

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