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Heroic CIA Whistleblower Fired For Revealing Secret CIA Run Prisons

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While the CIA did not reveal the identity of the intelligence officer, NBC news reported that she is Mary McCarthy, an agency employee since 1984.

A Washington Post article revealed
The CIA fired a long-serving intelligence officer for sharing classified information with The Washington Post and other news organizations, officials said yesterday, as the agency continued an aggressive internal search for anyone who may have discussed intelligence with the news media.

CIA officials said the career intelligence officer failed more than one polygraph test and acknowledged unauthorized contacts with reporters. The "officer knowingly and willfully shared classified intelligence, including operational information" with journalists, the agency said in a statement yesterday....


McCarthy began her career in government as an analyst at the CIA in 1984, public documents show. She served as special assistant to the president and senior director for intelligence programs at the White House during the Clinton administration and the first few months of the Bush administration. She later returned to the CIA. Attempts to reach her last night were unsuccessful.

The CIA's statement did not name the reporters it believes were involved, but several intelligence officials said The Post's Dana Priest was among them. This week, Priest won the Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting for articles about the agency, including one that revealed the existence of secret, CIA-run prisons in Eastern Europe and elsewhere.
It is shameful and outrageous that the Bush administration can cavalierly declassify espionage information for political reasons. Mary McCarthy should be receiving accolades and awards for her courage in standing up for Democracy in a time when criminals are running the legal system. We need to raise a hue and cry supporting her.

 

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