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To: combjelly who wrote (285673)	4/27/2006 10:26:34 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573994

The liberal press "Fired CIA officer Mary O. McCarthy went on offense Monday, denying through her lawyer that she has done anything wrong. But the agency is standing by its claim that she was dismissed last week because she 'knowingly and willfully shared classified intelligence,'?" the Wall Street Journal notes. "It has been reported that one of her media contacts was Washington Post reporter Dana Priest, who just won a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on the so-called 'secret' prisons that the CIA allegedly used to house top level al Qaeda detainees in Eastern Europe," the newspaper said in an editorial. "We're as curious as anyone to see how Ms. McCarthy's case unfolds. But this would appear to be only the latest example of the unseemly symbiosis between elements of the press corps and a cabal of partisan bureaucrats at the CIA and elsewhere in the 'intelligence community' who have been trying to undermine the Bush presidency." The Journal pointed to such anti-Bush partisans as former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV and his wife, former CIA employee Valerie Plame, as well as former CIA analyst Michael Scheuer, who was allowed to write an anti-Bush screed under the name "Anonymous." "The press is also inventing a preposterous double standard that is supposed to help us all distinguish between bad leaks (the Plame name) and virtuous leaks (whatever Ms. McCarthy might have done). Washington Post executive editor Leonard Downie has put himself on record as saying Ms. McCarthy should not 'come to harm' for helping citizens hold their government accountable. Of the Plame affair, by contrast, the Post's editorial page said her exposure may have been an 'egregious abuse of the public trust.' "It would appear that the only relevant difference here is whose political ox is being gored, and whether a liberal or conservative journalist was the beneficiary of the leak. That the press sought to hound Robert Novak out of polite society for the Plame disclosure and then rewards Ms. Priest and [New York Times reporter James] Risen with Pulitzers proves the worst that any critic has ever said about media bias."