A Media Mole Unmasked

CIA Director Porter Goss fingered his first alleged media mole

After complaining for nearly a year about intelligence leaks to the press, CIA Director Porter Goss last week fingered his first alleged media mole. The agency fired a senior analyst for allegedly discussing secret information with the press, including the Washington Post's Dana Priest, whose story on a network of covert CIA prisons for suspected terrorists was informed by this source and won a Pulitzer Prize last week. CIA spokesmen refused to name the analyst, but other officials confirm that she is Mary McCarthy, a CIA veteran who served on the National Security Council under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W....

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