CIA officer fired over prison leak
David Johnston and Scott Shane
New York Times News Service
Chicago Tribune
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Washington (US):
The Central Intelligence Agency has dismissed a senior career officer for disclosing classified information to reporters, including material for the Pulitzer Prize-winning articles in The Washington Post about the agency's secret overseas prisons for terror suspects, intelligence officials said Friday.
The CIA would not identify the officer, but several government officials said it was Mary McCarthy, a veteran intelligence analyst who until 2001 was senior director for intelligence programs at the National Security Council, where she served under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. At the time of her dismissal, McCarthy was working in the agency's inspector general's office, after a four-year stint at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based organization that examines global security issues.
The dismissal of McCarthy provided fresh evidence of the Bush administration's determined efforts to stanch leaks of classified information. The Justice Department has separately opened preliminary investigations into the disclosure of information to the Post for its articles about secret prisons as well as to The New York Times, for articles last fall that disclosed the existence of a warrantless domestic eavesdropping program supervised by the National Security Agency. Those articles were also recognized this week with a Pulitzer Prize, awarded to two New York Times reporters.
Apr 22, 2006
David Johnston and Scott Shane
New York Times News Service
Chicago Tribune
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Washington (US):
The Central Intelligence Agency has dismissed a senior career officer for disclosing classified information to reporters, including material for the Pulitzer Prize-winning articles in The Washington Post about the agency's secret overseas prisons for terror suspects, intelligence officials said Friday.
The CIA would not identify the officer, but several government officials said it was Mary McCarthy, a veteran intelligence analyst who until 2001 was senior director for intelligence programs at the National Security Council, where she served under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. At the time of her dismissal, McCarthy was working in the agency's inspector general's office, after a four-year stint at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based organization that examines global security issues.
The dismissal of McCarthy provided fresh evidence of the Bush administration's determined efforts to stanch leaks of classified information. The Justice Department has separately opened preliminary investigations into the disclosure of information to the Post for its articles about secret prisons as well as to The New York Times, for articles last fall that disclosed the existence of a warrantless domestic eavesdropping program supervised by the National Security Agency. Those articles were also recognized this week with a Pulitzer Prize, awarded to two New York Times reporters.
Apr 22, 2006
