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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."

As they say, Read The Whole thing...

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.

Better yet, Let's stop giving security clearances altogether because of the burden it apparently places on the overburdened employees of the CIA.

(Note: one other point of no significance whatsoever. She has a lawyer named "Ty Cobb"?, what? is he from the firm of Jackson, Landis and Ruth? Their slogan "We'll hit your case out of the park or its free!")

UPDATE: More info on Ty Cobb Esq. at RightWingNutHouse.

The score so far -
1) She was a high ranking member of Clinton NSC
2) Whos boss inexplicably stuffed classified information into his pants and removed them from the archives, pleaded guilty and paid a fine, but never disclosed the nature of the materials removed.
2) Has working background with Ghana affairs.
3) Who works at an NYU speakers board with Washington Post Reporters Dana Priest and Sy Hersh.
4) Dana Priest Pulitzer winning reporter for her story on the renditions program, and who's husband appears to act on occasion as an agent for former Ambassador to ghana, Joe Wilson.
5) Sy Hersh, whos most recent opus was on the Administration "deviltry" at the now notorious Iraqi prision "abu ghirab". His work was purported to be simply "reporting the scandal", which was in fact investigated and prosecuted by the military long before it became public via Sy Hersh.
5) A CIA agent who was, until she was fired was in the CIA Inspector General office, which is responsible for making sure there are no "leaks", yet a regular and repeated campaign appears to have been run by the CIA against the elected government of the United States.
6) ---> Now has a high powered lawyer from deep within "The World Wide Legal Defense League of Clinton Apologists, Inc.".

Now, back to the question of "Who sent Joe Wilson, and Why"? It appears to me that there is now a much better answer to that question than there was before last weeks polygraph.

Posted @ April 24, 2006 04:29 PM | Current Affairs