UPDATED BELOW
(If she's guilty, of course.)
CIA Officer Fired for Leaking Classified Info to Media
P.S. to Bush-bashers: A leak is an unauthorized disclosure of information. The head of the executive branch is authorized to authorize disclosures.
P.P.S. (from Wizbang!):
[T]he CIA officer's name is Mary McCarthy. She worked at the Inspector General's office and testified in front of the 9/11 Commission.
Intelligence sources tell NBC News the accused officer, Mary McCarthy, worked in the CIA's inspector general's office and had worked for the National Security Council under the Clinton and and George W. Bush administrations.
The leak pertained to stories on the CIA's rumored secret prisons in Eastern Europe, sources told NBC. The information was allegedly provided to Dana Priest of the Washington Post, who wrote about CIA prisons in November and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize on Monday for her reporting.
Sources said the CIA believes McCarthy had more than a dozen unauthorized contacts with Priest. Information about subjects other than the prisons may have been leaked as well.
Update II: The Jawa Report says that McCarthy gave $2,000 to Kerry's 2004 campaign [emphasis mine, all mine].
MY UPDATE (04/22, 1:15 PM):
McCarthy may have been a serial leaker, and -- hah! -- she may have been caught in a sting operation.
