Just in case you've been living under a log for the past week, the CIA announced last week that Mary McCarthy, a policy analyst at the agency, engaged in a "pattern of behavior" that included leaking information about purported secret "CIA torture camps" located in Europe that allegedly have been used by our government to detain and interrogate Al Qaeda suspects. The Washington Post's Dana Priest recently won a Pulitzer Prize for her stories based on McCarthy's leaks.
Rush Limbaugh today:
Mary
McCarthy leaks the secret CIA prison story to Dana Priest of the
Washington Post. Some speculate this may have been a sting operation. I
don't know about that. The only thing I know about this is the
important thing to remember, is that the Democrats are on record as
wanting us out of Iraq and think it's a big boondoggle, but they claim
to be on board with the war on terror, and her leaks had nothing to do
with Iraq. Her leak on these prisons, if they exist, is where Al-Qaeda
terrorists captured on the battlefield were being held. Mary McCarthy
and Joseph Wilson served at the National Security Council together at
the same time.
Both had African portfolios. Does Dana Priest's husband serve as Joe
Wilson's agent, in effect getting him speaking gigs. And some are
asking was it Mary McCarthy who sent Joe Wilson to Niger? Our friends
at the PowerLine blog
point out that it's hard to keep up with all these revelations coming
out about Dana Priest, the Washington Post reporter who published the
secret prison story, got a Pulitzer Prize for it, and Mary McCarthy,
the Democratic Party activist and now fired CIA bureaucrat who leaked
this story to Dana Priest -- and yes, she was an activist.
She contributed $5,000 in soft money to the Democratic Party. She
contributed $2,000 to the Kerry campaign in 2004. Dana Priest is married
to William Goodfellow. Now, William Goodfellow is the executive director of something called the Center for International Policy,
and if you go to the Center for International Policy's website, you'll
find its mission statement, which reads: "promoting a foreign policy
based on cooperation, demilitarization, and human rights." Pure
liberalism, pure leftism! It appears that the Center for International
Policies idea of 'demilitarization and human rights' is best
exemplified by Cuba," if you read their website. They love Cuba, Dana
Priest's husband's website and organization.
But
when you read their mission statement, that they "promote a foreign
policy based on cooperation, demilitarization and human rights," you
have to know that they are surrenderers and they are appeasers, and
they do not recognize enemies. There are connections, interesting
connections among the Center for International Policy. They operate the
Iraq policy information program. Joe Wilson is part of it. Dana Priest
is part of it. This is not just guilt by association. Dana Priest
herself participated in an anti-Iraq war program put on by her
husband's group, the Center for International Policy, along with Joe
Wilson and even other more unsavory characters -- and if you go to the
right websites you'll find pictures of Dana Priest sitting next to Joe
Wilson, or close to him, and others at seminars put on by Dana Priest's
husband at the Center for International Policy.
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Make sure you read the PowerLine post that Rush referenced above. I agree with John Hinderaker that we shouldn't enter into fits of wild speculation regarding possible conspiracy theories, but I find it interesting that conspiracy nuts on the Left, who see an evil Karl Rove plot behind everything the White House does, seem to have no interest whatsoever in any of the connections between Priest, McCarthy, and Joe Wilson. Or, for that matter, the interesting fact that according to the UN, no hard evidence of those secret torture camps even exists. Did McCarthy give Dana Priest nothing but a giant red herring fabricated by others in the CIA solely to trap leakers? Inquiring minds should want to know.
And true to MSM form, ABC News just published an eye-rolling piece about the patriotism of leaking. If you don't have time to read it, here's a shorter version: Leaks? Hey no big deal. Everybody did it, even ol' Ben Franklin! Again, one wonders why ABC News failed to discover this interesting fact during the outcry over the "outing" of Valerie Plame.
Deep Washington insiders have long speculated that there is a coordinated effort by CIA employees loyal to the Democrat Party (and especially the Clinton Administration) to whitewash the Clinton Administration's performance on national security matters (e.g. Sandy Berger's pilfering of classified documents from the National Archives) while torpedoing ongoing policy initiatives by the Bush Administration. Could this be an opening round of "auditions" for senior positions in a possible Hillary Clinton administration?
Whatever the reasons, it will be fun to watch Democrats -- who previously demanded the heads of "leakers" on a silver platter -- defend this woman as a great American hero for violating her sworn oath as a CIA operative and possibly endangering countless lives, just to get even with a President she doesn't like.
As one commenter put it, don't they try people for treason any more?
Here's a nifty graph depicting the web of connections between the players in this story, via WizBang:
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