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McCarthy: " I Didnt Leak, I was not escorted out"

From MSNBC.

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"McCarthy's lawyer, Ty Cobb, told NEWSWEEK this afternooon that contrary to public statements by the CIA late last week, McCarthy never confessed to agency interrogators that she had divulged classified information and "didn't even have access to the information" in The Washington Post story in question.

After being told by agency interrogators that she may have been deceptive on one quesiton during a polygraph, McCarthy did acknowledge that she had failed to report contacts with Washington Post reporter Dana Priest and at least one other reporter, said a source familiar with her account who asked not to be identified because of legal sensitivities. McCarthy has known Priest for some time, the source said."

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Later in the article, several apologists say in a sense that such "old fashioned ideas", such as not violating security oaths are outmoded in the modern world, and by Bush actually prosecuting leaks, it imperils the "security community" by forcing them to honor their oaths and that a better idea would be to simply give the Washington Post and the New York Times a security clearance so they can print whatever they think is important and cut out all this leaker "fol-der-all" about "leakers". Cut out the middleman and pass the savings on to you, the citizen.