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fortdixlover
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| Quote: | | Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. said ... "The reporting that Dana did was very important accountability reporting about how the CIA and the rest of the U.S. government have been conducting the war on terror," Downie said. "Whether or not the actions of the CIA or other agencies have interfered with anyone's civil liberties is important information for Americans to know and is an important part of our jobs." |
WTF? interfered with anyone's civil liberties?
Just who is this "anyone"?
This is exhibit 1 on LLL's concern for terrorists over concern for *us*.
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From the "Wish I'd Said That" dep't...
| Quote: | No Prize Again in Pulitzer ‘Non-Treason’ Category
By Scott Ott, Editor-in-Chief, ScrappleFace.com
News Fairly Unbalanced. We Report. You Decipher.
(2006-04-22) — For the fifth year in a row, the Pulitzer committee has announced it received no nominees for its journalism award in the “Named Sources, No Leaks, Non-Treason” category.
The news comes a day after the CIA fired a high-ranking officer for disclosing top-secret information to the Washington Post. The Justice Department is also investigating the leak of secret information about an NSA terrorist-monitoring program to The New York Times.
Each paper has recently parlayed intelligence leaks into Pulitzer-prize winning investigative pieces.
The Pulitzer Non-Treasonous Reporting prize recognizes journalists who ply their trade without jeopardizing U.S. national security, or relying on information from government agents who violate the law, or their own terms of employment.
Now in its fifth year, the prize has yet to be awarded, causing the prize money to swell to more than $50,000
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Me#1You#10
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John Gibson appears to have a laser-like focus on a sinister prospect for this story...Give him a listen on Monday...
| Quote: | The Secret War Against President Bush
Friday , April 21, 2006
By John Gibson
FOX NEWS
On Friday, the CIA busted one of its own and charged him — or her — with leaking classified information.
While this guy or gal goes to jail, over at The Washington Post, reporter Dana Priest is still admiring the brand new Pulitzer Prize sitting on her mantle, for writing about what this very leaker told her: the secret prison story.
It was last November when Priest published a story in The Washington Post that the U.S. was maintaining a secret array of prisons where American intelligence could interrogate Al Qaeda-types who had been captured on the field of battle or picked up off the streets, wherever we could find them.
Coincidentally, on Friday, the European Union's anti-terrorism chief told a hearing that he had not been able to prove that secret CIA prisons really existed.
Whether they existed or not, the CIA spook evidently told Dana Priest something about secret prisons that qualified as leaking classified information. So it's off to Stony Lonesome.
All reporters would love to win a Pulitzer. Few know how it feels. Fewer still know how it feels to win one of the top prizes in the profession, while somebody goes off the prison so you could win your prize.
What is really going on here is the secret war by CIA-types against President Bush and his policies. This is the group inside the CIA — think Valerie Plame — who think their opinions and analysis of the world should trump whatever it is the president thinks. If the president goes against their opinion, they call The New York Times and start leaking embarrassing stuff.
It's a war against Bush, waged by Americans.
It's wrong, it's illegal and people are going to start going to jail. That's good.
Next up? Whoever was leaking to James Risen of The New York Times.
His story about the secret NSA wiretapping program probably did damage to national security, because it may have tipped off Al Qaeda that we could listen to their cell phone conversations to people inside this country.
Now that the secret prisons leaker is out of the way, the counter-leaking team over at the CIA can concentrate on Risen's leaker. With any luck, we will soon hear the sound of the jail house door slamming... again.
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Doc Farmer
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| Me#1You#10 wrote: | From the "Wish I'd Said That" dep't...
| Quote: | No Prize Again in Pulitzer ‘Non-Treason’ Category
By Scott Ott, Editor-in-Chief, ScrappleFace.com
News Fairly Unbalanced. We Report. You Decipher.
(2006-04-22) — For the fifth year in a row, the Pulitzer committee has announced it received no nominees for its journalism award in the “Named Sources, No Leaks, Non-Treason” category.
The news comes a day after the CIA fired a high-ranking officer for disclosing top-secret information to the Washington Post. The Justice Department is also investigating the leak of secret information about an NSA terrorist-monitoring program to The New York Times.
Each paper has recently parlayed intelligence leaks into Pulitzer-prize winning investigative pieces.
The Pulitzer Non-Treasonous Reporting prize recognizes journalists who ply their trade without jeopardizing U.S. national security, or relying on information from government agents who violate the law, or their own terms of employment.
Now in its fifth year, the prize has yet to be awarded, causing the prize money to swell to more than $50,000
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And back again. Thanks for the hattip. We try to reciprocate when we "borrow" something from here. You folks have some really good stuff, too.
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Schadow
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| Anker-Klanker wrote: | | Keep an eye on this one. Apparently Mary McCarthy has some very interesting and intriguing connections with a number of names that have been in the news of late - all aligned with the "other side." |
Well, here are some connections of interest (From John Hinderaker at Powerline)(emphasis added):
| Quote: | It's hard to keep up with the revelations coming out about Dana Priest, the Washington Post reporter who published the "secret prisons" story, and Mary McCarthy, the Democratic Party activist and now-fired CIA bureaucrat who leaked the story to Priest.
Sweetness & Light points out that Dana Priest is married to William Goodfellow, the Executive Director of the the Center for International Policy (CIP). At the top of its web site is CIP's mission statement: "Promoting a foreign policy based on cooperation, demilitarization and human rights." It appears that CIP's idea of "demilitarization and human rights" is best exemplified by Cuba.
Sweetness & Light goes on to highlight connections among CIP, which operates The Iraq Policy Information Program, Joe Wilson, and Dana Priest. This is not just guilt by association: Priest herself participated in an anti-Iraq war program put on by her husband's group, CIP, along with Joe Wilson and other even more unsavory characters. (Via The Corner).
Then we have Ms. McCarthy, the CIA leaker, who turns out to be a substantial contributor to the Democratic Party. Andy McCarthy notes that the Washington Post has published a sympathetic portrait of McCarthy--who leaked, remember, to the Post, resulting in a story for which the Post won a Pulitzer Prize--which touts McCarthy as unbiased without ever mentioning that she was a Kerry supporter who has given up to $7,700 a year to Democratic candidates!
So we have a Democratic Party activist violating federal law by leaking classified information to an antiwar activist on the payroll of the Washington Post, which publishes the criminal leak and is awarded a prize by the left-wing Pulitzer committee.
Finally, several bloggers are speculating about the possibility that the whole "secret prisons" story might have been a sting operation by the CIA designed to catch a leaker. I don't think this can be true, based mostly on public statements that have been made by intelligence officials, but it is a curious fact that there doesn't seem to be any evidence for the existence of the secret prisons other than Dana Priest's story. Can it be that this is one secret the CIA has actually been able to keep, but for the leak? |
This quote contains links of interest and can be found Here
There can be no doubt that the CIA is infested with people who are willing to compromise national security for political ideology. This cannot be tolerated. Goss and the Intel Committees' Chairs must take severe action against this dangerous disgrace while they still have the power to do so. We can't count 100% on them riding through the November 7 elections.
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I've got a strong feeling this isn't going to go very far either. She should have been in handcuffs many hours ago. Interesting that sKerry rears his head first with assinine comments.
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shawa
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Army_(Ret) said
| Quote: | | Interesting that sKerry rears his head first with assinine comments. |
Maybe because of this quote from former Kerry campaign staffers as to sKerry's senior advisor boasting he" still had friends willing to help the Kerry campaign from inside"
| Quote: | The New McCarthyism
By The Prowler
Published 4/24/2006 12:09:06 AM
THE GROUP
"It isn't just the CIA that has problems with former politicals getting knee-deep into this Administration's policy and leaking materials," says a current Bush Administration aide. "We're talking about a situation that we haven't been able to deal with in a manner in which we'd want. But this Mary McCarthy case may help us."
The aide is referring to the firing last week of a CIA employee working in the agency's Office of Inspector General. One of McCarthy's jobs was investigating allegations of torture by CIA employees or contractors at Iraqi prisons. The CIA fired McCarthy on evidence that she was one of the sources for Washington Post reporter Dana Priest's report on so-called "Black Site" prisons in Europe and elsewhere that housed captured al Qaeda, Taliban, and some senior Iraqi military and intelligence individuals.
Unresolved is whether McCarthy also leaked material to the left-wing organization, Human Rights Watch, which clearly was also a key source to Priest. (Note this quote in Priest's now-Pulitzer Prize winning story: "'I remember asking: What are we going to do with these people?' said a senior CIA officer. 'I kept saying, where's the help? We've got to bring in some help. We can't be jailers -- our job is to find Osama.'" Was this McCarthy?)
McCarthy's background is just becoming increasingly fleshed out, including her ties to former National Security Advisor Sandy "Sox" Berger and the Clinton White House. McCarthy was appointed Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Intelligence Programs by Berger in 1998. She replaced Rand Beers.
According to former Kerry campaign staffers, Beers, who served as a senior adviser to Kerry's campaign, spoke of having continued access to CIA and national security data from former colleagues still in government.
"He said he still had friends willing to help the Kerry campaign from inside," says a former staffer. "We always assumed that guys like Beers and Berger were in touch with these people. I'm not talking about having secure material leaked to us, but our national security folks always seemed to be in the know." The former staffer said he never recalled mention of any names.
But all of this is now past tense, and the White House, as well as senior staff at the Departments of Justice, State, and Defense, are attempting to identify possible leakers among their own career staffs with access to information that might be helpful to Democrats or the press.
Of greatest concern is the Department of Justice, the nexus of many terrorism and national security cases that would involve the White House, Defense and State Departments, as well as briefings on Capitol Hill to congressional leadership.
"We know we have people leaking materials. It's been an ongoing problem, but until someone has taken the first step, and the McCarthy case would appear to be the first step, it's hard to move against career staff," says a current Defense Department staffer. "We have an IG looking at all kinds of things right now. Perhaps we'll get some movement." |
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MrJapan
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Hahahaha... rotflmao.... laughing so hard it hurts.. wanna puke... |
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Schadow
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The plot thickens sickeningly with this latest from Andrew McCarthy (no relation) writing in National Review Online [emphasis added]:
| Quote: | ..... [Mary] McCarthy’s situation cannot be considered in a vacuum. Even with McCarthy considered alone, we are not talking about a single leak – the reporting indicates that she may be a serial leaker, the black-sites story being only the most prominent instance. But the broader context here is an intelligence community that was, quite brazenly, leaking in a manner designed to topple a sitting president. A big question here -- maybe not for purposes of guilt under the espionage act, but for the more important policy issue of a politicized CIA -- is whether she was part of a campaign that was grossly inappropriate for the intelligence community to engage in.
Remember Michael Scheuer, aka “Anonymous.” It is simply dumbfounding that, as an intelligence officer heading up the bin Laden team (i.e., the unit targeting the number one, active national security problem facing the country) he was permitted by the CIA to write books about what he was doing. He has indicated, though, that it was fine with the agency as long as he was slamming the Bush administration.
Valerie Plame Wilson thought the whole Bush administration notion that Saddam was trying to arm up with nukes was crazy. She maneuvered to have, not an objective analyst, but her husband – with no WMD expertise but an enemy of the president’s policy – sent to Niger, whence he returned and wrote a highly partisan, misleading and damaging op-ed in the NYTimes about the Bush administration’s case for toppling Saddam … which op-ed he was permitted by the self-same CIA to write notwithstanding that his trip was (and should have been) classified.
All the while, there has been a steady drumbeat from the former intelligence officers – who anonymously fill Seymour Hersh books when they are not venting their spleens on the record – attacking every aspect of the administration’s handling of the war on terror.
This has all been steady since 9/11. But it was especially frenetic in the run-up to the 2004 election (and the flavor of it ran throughout the 9/11 Commission hearings and, to a somewhat more muted extent, in the Commission’s final report). The transparent purpose of it was to get Senator Kerry elected.
Now we find that an intelligence officer who was leaking information very damaging to Bush was a Kerry backer to a degree that was extraordinary for a single person on a government salary, and, even more extraordinarily, gave $5K of her own money to Democrats in the key swing state (Ohio) that, in the end, did actually decide the election.
From where I sit, that’s pretty damn relevant |
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And now the Democrat talking points dictate that the McCarthy leaks be characterized as "whistleblowing", comparing any law-breaking to civil disobedience in the civil rights sit-in days. And the Sunday shows dutifully provide the talking heads to spread this false orthodoxy. When the dependable useful idiot, Juan Williams, spewed it out on Chris Wallace's show Sunday, the others were practically speechless.
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BuffaloJack
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Whistle Blowing?????
Yeah Right !!
This is intentionally transmitting classified material to someone unauthorized to receive it.
Sent the perp to prison !!!
Store the key in a bottle of acid.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 11:12 pm Post subject: |
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"This is intentionally transmitting classified material to someone unauthorized to receive it."
Not someone, but a major media outlet; during a time of war.
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Deuce
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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Anker,
I'm with you on this one, the Double Standard goes all the way up the crime rap sheet to murder as we all know: Lib Murderer...off scott free; Conservative accused (not convicted) ...Jailtime!
all boils down to | Quote: | | Adversarial foreign countries and terrorists rely heavily on the US press... |
that's all we need to know.
Deuce
ps (please note I didn't use Dem/Repub on this opinion) |
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The idea has been floated that McCarthy may have had something to do with the assignment of the intrepid Joe Wilson on his mint tea mission. 
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Schadow
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| Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 12:51 am Post subject: |
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What leak? What confession? Now that she's lawyered up, she's denying everything.
Get the reporters before a grand jury post haste and get them focussed on avoiding accommodations at the Grey Bar Hotel.
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PhantomSgt
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| Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 8:17 am Post subject: |
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Just another fine example of the Liberal PhDs who infiltrated Langley during the Clinton administration. Rather than have folks who had "boots on the ground" analyzing intel we have a collection of eggheads who could not find a terrorist at an Al Qaeda convention or their arse with both hands.
Osama must be thoroughly enjoying this debacle.
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