Flopping Aces talks about The Democrat Mole In The CIA Fired. Ms. McCarthy is no stranger to politics and by accounts has a history of blabbing to reporters. In From The Cold has a rundown of just what happened and how McCarthy got her job in the first place. Spook86 points to political connections as the reason she leaped over more tenured and qualified officers to obtain her NIO post. Flopping Aces connects the dots between McCarthy, Beers, John "Magic Hat" Kerry and Joe Wilson. The whole thing stinks. She is a partisan with an agenda. If she were principled, she would have quit and gone to the press openly and faced her day in court with a clear conscious. Maybe now Porter Goss will start cleaning house in earnest and prosecuting leakers vigorously. Both parties love leaks when they damage their opponents. The media lives on them. Why a journalist isn't prosecuted for receiving classified information is beyond me. If McCarthy had stolen a car and given it to Dana Priest, she'd be guilty of receiving stolen property. The idea that the press gets a pass is absurd. Priest should be willing to face the consequences if she truly believed this was vital to the national interest.

Leaks and whistleblowing are two different things. Leaking is politically motivated and attempts to either damage your opponent or shore up an ally. Whistleblowing is revealing plainly illegal behavior. Waste, fraud and abuse are clear. These are difficult to prove but, like pr0n, you know it when you see it. One man's leaker is another man's whistleblower. However, all the calls for Rove and Libby's heads are now silent. The press now knows they have no moral leg to stand on.

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