Mary McCarthy and her husband contributed $9500 to the Kerry campaign, DNC, and other democratic candidates in 2004- not bad for someone on a government salary. I imagine if a republican contributer had leaked classified information we would be reading more about it.
D*mn...took my idea for another new thread... 'Convicted Child Molesters were Bush campaign contributors'
Where's the freakin link?!?!?!! Maybe you should be sending this nugget of information to the special prosecutor basso instead of posting it on a basketball site, I'm pretty sure he would like to know this. And as for you gwayneco ,you should be banned for being the racist b*stard that you are. I don't know your creed or your color but from what you type you're no better than any jihadist or skinhead
Various Links: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/22/w...partner=homepage&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/23/w...b456e148f&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss http://opensecrets.org/indivs/searc...tEmploy=&txtCand=&txt2004=Y&txt2002=Y&Order=N http://opensecrets.org/indivs/searc...tEmploy=&txtCand=&txt2006=Y&txt2004=Y&Order=N http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/21/AR2006042101218.html "National Security Advisor Samuel R. Berger announced today the appointment of Mary O’Neil McCarthy as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Intelligence Programs. Mrs. McCarthy succeeds Rand Beers."
Apparently this is just the beginning of the administration's witch hunt at the CIA. They've become so paranoid that they are demanding to know the political affiliation of CIA employees. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/22/AR2006042201442_2.html
Ubleivable, and very un-America. It is actually very authoritarian, and should frighten freedom loving Americans.
from josh -- CIA officers don't work under the same civil service rules as most government employees. But I still don't think this sort of political purge activity is permitted. Not that we should be surprised about this. When Porter Goss took over as DCI he brought over with him a number of GOP political operatives. Take the CIA head of Public Affairs Goss installed: Jennifer Millerwise Dyck. She was a flack from the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign. Before that she worked for Goss on the Hill. And before that she worked for Ari Fleischer at the House Ways and Means Committee. The administration's response to the ills of the intelligence agencies has been to further politicize them, to put them under more reliable political control. And that's not surprising either since, from the White House perspective, the failures of the intelligence agencies weren't not getting it right on WMD and other issues. It was getting it more right and then wrong and then talking about what had happened to the press. Now as the consequences of their policies grow more severe and catastrophic and the news gets worse and worse, it's batten down the hatches time. We should be surprised that a deeper purge is underway. Just because the White House was trying to root out all but loyalists that doesn't mean they didn't catch McCarthy in a fireable offense. I don't know. But this latest abuse of power from the White House deserves much more than a passing reference. -- Josh Marshall
Uhmm, McCarthy gave the times details on a secret CIA program as part of a personal vedetta against Bush and the WOT, and you're accusing the White House of a political witchhunt? remarkable!
Is this fact or republican talking points? I noticed no links in your original post. Care to enlighten us? [edit] I can just as easily assert that McCarthy is a patriot that deserves the medal of honor for exposing an illegal policy of rendition and torture.
He's trying to liken it to Plame. Of course, blowing the whistle on illegal government activities isn't the same thing. But who cares when we're being ridiculous.
So the current administration believes that every 4 to 8 years we should be changing about half of our senior intelligence officials, or at least treat them differently based on political affiliation? And this helps protect Americans...how?
