Interesting Juxtaposition
It turns out that Mary O. McCarthy (according to a news report I heard on the radio this morning), ousted as the source of several leaks from the CIA, worked in the Inspector General's office, the same office that's now investigating allegations of CIA personnel participation in the "Poker and Hookers" parties in the Duke Cunningham scandal.
There have been several articles noting that the evidence against Ms. McCarthy is thin, she herself denies the charges, many of her co-workers say it's not behavior which she would likely have engaged in, and it looks like no actual charges are going to be brought.
Speculation is that she may have been thrown under the bus to get a more friendly investigator on the scandal, who might have been more willing to sweep it under the rug. This might also explain why the same Bush Administration that's made such a hew and cry about charging leakers (even those in the media who publish those leaks) with treason hasn't bothered to actually file any charges against Ms. McCarthy. If they do that, there will be public scrutiny into her firing and some of this may come out.
Just speculation, but it fits the facts and it certainly wouldn't be out of character for this President or this White House.
Liam.
posted by Liam at 5/09/2006 03:51:00 PM
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It's just amazing to me how often these stories interconnect.
Valerie Plame was outed, seemingly to punish her husband (critical of the "intelligence" leading us to war with Iraq), and now it turns out that in the process (whether intentional or not) it's become harder to verify Administration claims about Iran's nuclear capabilities.
Mary McCarthy is fingered as "the leaker" and fired, and it later turns out that she was in the office which was pursuing a politically inconvenient scandal within the walls of the CIA.
It makes me wonder, each time something new comes out, how it will ultimately turn out. Did Bush just make a poor choice in his nominee for the new CIA director (in as much as his own party is making if anything even more noise about how wrong the pick is than the Democrats are), or will it turn out to help advance the case for war in Iran, because the CIA will be in disarray and thus unable to provide good intelligence that Iran is *NOT* a threat (if indeed they are not)?
And it's this onion-layer like atmosphere that leads so many otherwise sane people to lend credence to the various 9/11 conspiracy theorists. Bush and company prove themselves ready, willing and able to lie, cheat and maneuver to get what they want. They continue to deny facts long after they become readily apparent to everyone. And they smear as ideological partisan crazies anyone who questions them (even as some of those "ideological crazies" later prove to have been entirely right).
Is it any wonder, then, why it's hard to tell who the crazies really are any more, and who is merely being painted that way by an Administration desperate to keep another secret, gain another advantage?
It's not that the 9/11 conspiracy theories make any more sense than the "CIA is putting propaganda into my head" crazies of old, it's just that the tactic has backfired. Initially, by throwing opponents into the sanitarium, the opposing viewpoints were made to look insane. But the more sane and sensible people end up walking the halls of the asylum, the harder it is to dismiss the rantings of those who truly ARE crazy.
Liam.
Wednesday, May 10, 2006 8:05:00 PM
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