UPDATE 2:
McCarthy-ism?"As additional information on the firing of CIA official Mary McCarthy just ten days short of her retirement becomes available, what is afoot is becoming quite clear. We are witnessing a Stalinesque show trial sans the actual trial and inevitable execution. The purpose is intimidation, not extermination," says Ray McGovern.-----------------------------
UPDATE 1:
CIA Leak: McCarthy Denies She's the Source.A former colleague says the fired Mary McCarthy ‘categorically denies’ being the source of the leak on agency renditions.-----------------------------
She Deserves a Medal
There is a difference between leaking and whistleblowing. When someone leaks information exposing deplorable actions by the US Government--acts committed in our names without our knowledge--that someone is a whistleblower, not a leaker.Mary McCarthy exposed the gulag tactics of this administration. She deserves a medal. And a promotion. Not a pink slip and prosecution.
The ones who deserve to be fired are the ones trying to lynch her in order to protect their own necks-- the ones who made and promoted these policies behind the backs of the American people to whom they are accountable. They are the traitors, not McCarthy. She deserves our thanks--and then some.
C.I.A. Fires Senior Officer Over Leaks
The Central Intelligence Agency has dismissed a senior career officer for disclosing classified information to reporters, including material for Pulitzer Prize-winning articles in the Washington Post about the agency's secret overseas prisons for terror suspects, intelligence officials said Friday.
Read more:
- CIA Officer's Job Made Any Leaks More Delicate
- Ex-CIA analyst played by rules, colleagues say
- OSS CEO Praises Mary McCarthy, Calls for Censure of DNI & DCI
Robert David STEELE Vivas, a career intelligence officer who went on to found the Marine Corps Intelligence Command and then the international Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) movement, spoke today in praise of Mary McCarthy, and simultaneously called for the censure of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI).
- Some doubt CIA analyst talked
"It looks to me like Mary is being used as a sacrificial lamb," said Larry Johnson, a former CIA officer who worked for McCarthy in the agency's Latin America section.
- Colleagues defend fired analyst
- John Kerry's Speech at Boston's Faneuil Hall: "Right and Responsibility to Speak Out"
Senator John Kerry, in a speech delivered in Boston on Saturday, reaffirms that it was right to dissent in 1971 from a war that was wrong. Kerry states that it is both a right and an obligation for Americans today to disagree with a President who is wrong, a policy that is wrong, and a war in Iraq that weakens the nation.
- Who Will Blow the Whistle Before We Attack Iran?
- A surge in whistle-blowing ... and reprisals
Dissent often carries a price in official Washington, especially in the war years of the Bush presidency. Since the September 11 attacks, the number of insiders alleging wrongdoing in government - either through whistleblower channels or directly to the press - has surged, as have reprisals against them.
- Mary McCarthy's Choice
As a 27-year-veteran of the CIA, I have one overwhelming reaction to the news that senior intelligence analyst Mary McCarthy has been fired for leaking information to the press on CIA’s network of secret prisons abroad: She must have seen no alternative to stop the abuses.
- Wayne Madsen Report
WMR has received information from a veteran member of the U.S. Intelligence Community that fired CIA Inspector General (IG) officer, 61-year old veteran CIA employee Mary O. McCarthy, was the result of a White House-launched political vendetta designed to ferret out pro-Democrats in the CIA.
- Whistleblowing Past the Graveyard
"A retired-general-talking-head argued that the CIA officer, identified by the Washington Post as one Mary O. McCarthy, could have reported to her superior. She could have gone to the agency's Inspector General. If neither of these remedies worked, the errant conduct could have been reported to a member of the House or Senate Intelligence Committees, the general said. It's probably not a bad thing that this general is retired, because he is either delusional or woefully uninformed," William Fisher writes.
- NEW: Bush Should Polygraph Staff
- NEW: Click here to see Keith Olbermann with former CIA officer Larry Johnson on the partisan witch hunt that has snared Mary McCarthy, or here for the full transcript.
2 comments:
She revealed a false story that hurt the country. So far the Euros have found no trace of an illegal prison system. It won a Pulitzer Prize too. Excellent. This is Janet Cooke territory.
There is a proceedure for dealing with such wistle blowing. It includes going to the agency head and then to Congress. Did she follow the proceedure?
The Dems are dead in the mid-terms. They will lose seats. They will be known as a party of traitors. It is really too bad because what this country needs is a viable second party.
I have more to say here.
I posted a reply on your blog. Enjoy.
One thing I didn't address there: The international press has concurred with secret prisons. So has our government. I've previously linked the original articles to my blog--search and you shall find.
Where are the facts to back up your assertion that the Euro's have found no trace of illegal prisons? And to back up your Pulitzer Prize assertion? Janet Cooke is irrelevant and has NOTHING to do with this.
As for following the proper procedure for whistle-blowers, you obviously don't understand. If the people you work for are the ones executing an illegal policy, who do you complain to? That's why whistle-blowers are usually protected. When there is abuse of power, it's often the only way to get the truth out. Maybe you don't mind if people are tortured and imprisoned secretly -- in your name--but I do. And so do most Americans who hold American values.
Read the rest of my response here.
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