Saturday, April 22, 2006
Whistleblower or convenient target?
The NY Times has a biographical piece of the fired CIA analyst who stands accused of leaking details of Americas shame to the Washington Post.
On Thursday, the C.I.A. fired Ms. McCarthy, 61, accusing her of leaking information to reporters about overseas prisons operated by the agency in the years since the Sept. 11 attacks. But despite Ms. McCarthy's independent streak, some colleagues who worked with her at the White House and other offices during her intelligence career say they cannot imagine Ms. McCarthy as a leaker of classified information.The article goes on to describe many possibilities without reaching any conclusions. What is clear is that Mary McCarthy was in the service of her country whatever her actions were.
As a senior National Security Council aide for intelligence from 1996 to 2001, she was responsible for guarding some of the nations most sensitive secrets.
"We're talking about a person with great integrity who played by the book and, as far as I know, never deviated from the rules," said Steven Simon, a National Security Council aide in the Clinton administration who worked closely with Ms. McCarthy.
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