Comments | reality_hammer: A long overdue moment

reality_hammer

A long overdue moment

Apr 21, 2006 22:05

I have been waiting for a moment like this.
WASHINGTON (AP) - In a highly unusual move, the CIA has fired an employee for leaking classified information to the news media, including details about secret CIA prisons in Eastern Europe that resulted in a Pulitzer Prize-winning story, officials said Friday ( Read more... )

mary mccarthy, cia, leaks

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izuko April 22 2006, 02:19:20 UTC

I've got twenty that says the dems say she's being sent up by the administration. Any takers?

phoenix_starr April 22 2006, 03:43:18 UTC

Nah... I don't take sucker bets. She'll be a hero in the AP before all this is over and then offered a job with the DMC.

izuko April 22 2006, 12:38:47 UTC

Well, now that it's come out that she's a Kerry supporter and a Sandy Berger appointment, it's a done deal. She's the next Cindy Sheehan.

phoenix_starr April 23 2006, 03:22:53 UTC

See? Sucker bet. ::smriks::

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graywolf44 April 22 2006, 13:41:28 UTC

All I can say is, it's about freakin' time they enforced the law regarding national secrets!

I wonder how big the list of people terminated and prosecuted is going to grow?

moonchylde April 24 2006, 18:13:41 UTC

*shrug*

In the end, you could take it either way; she is/was a security leaker. Or, she is a whistle-blower that is being punished for alerting the public to very real problems.

If they wanted to avoid problems but still punish her, I would have forced her into early retirement instead. *shrug* Eliminates the 'poor nearly-retired person fired for doing a Good Thing' aspect.

blindman738 April 24 2006, 18:43:08 UTC

Yeah, just goes to show that if you reveal information that makes BushCo look bad then you will be flamed incessantly. But if you reveal information to help BushCo then you get a prize. Oh, and if you happen to BE BushCo? You can out whatever the hell you want.

moonchylde April 25 2006, 00:05:48 UTC

sad, but so far as I've observed, true.

*sigh*

knowing that our president can randomly tell whatever he wants to whoever he wants, whenever he wants is NOT a comfort.

*shudder*

gah, the visit with the Chinese kinda freaked me out, anyhow...

blindman738 April 25 2006, 14:14:55 UTC

Mary McCarthy is denying she is the source and never confessed she was. Not to be too quick to take her word for it lest I look like a hack, but this smells badly all around. I have a feeling this is some sort of diversion by BushCo.

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