Well, as of this morning (Saturday) most of the big media don't care.
They're fixated with the weather and gas prices - and anything else
that will divert the public's attention from the stunning revelation
that a Sandy Berger crony has apparently been leaking top-secret
information from her high post at the CIA. The media will continue to
downplay this story as they cover-up their own role in exposing our
nation's secrets, including the supposed existence of CIA prisons in
Europe. She'll be called a "whistleblower" and praised as some kind of
patriot (a patriot, in the eyes of the media, is anybody who
undermines this administration and the war effort by leaking national
security secrets to them). They will downplay that McCarthy was a
Clintonoid who somehow managed to land a top post at the CIA,
ultimately winding up in the CIA's Inspector General's Office, from
where she could monitor CIA internal investigations of, well, leaks,
among other things.

The news spin, to the extent attention is being paid to this by the
big media outlets, is that McCarthy's firing is unprecedented! Or it's
Bush's fault! In one of the most absurd comments by any newsman
anywhere, Newsbusters.org notes that Bob Schieffer of CBS Evening News
asserted that "it is no secret that the current administration does
not like its people hanging out with news reporters without
permission" and he described the firing as "a first - a dubious first,
to be sure." Here. Is this guy for real?

If she leaked she must be charged. I wonder what Schieffer would say
then? I suppose he would urge that she receive the Presidential Medal
of Freedom. After all, the Washington Post's Dana Priest, who
apparently served as McCarthy's stenographer, was just awarded the
Pulitzer Prize.

I must say, however, that the media's sickening hypocrisy knows no
bounds. They came to the defense of Joe Wilson and his wife, Valerie
Plame, who worked behind-the-scenes to get her husband that
"fact-finding" trip to Niger. They demanded an investigation into who
"leaked" Plame's identity to Bob Novak - which ensnared their own
reporters. They hoped they would critically wound the president, and
they failed. Clearly Plame was not undercover and the revelation of
her identity was not a crime. Lewis Libby now stands accused of lying
about a crime that never occurred and the media think that's a good
thing.

Now comes Mary McCarthy, who apparently leaked real classified
national-security secrets and the media largely dismiss it or defend
it. They have no curiosity about McCarthy, the extent of her leaks, to
whom she leaked (beyond Priest, did she leak to other reporters,
members of Congress, other governments?), how she secured top security
posts, and her ties to the Clinton administration. Surely there is
every reason the government should pursue this investigation at least
as vigorously as the Plame matter has been pursued. Dana Priest, among
others, should have her day before a grand jury.

And watch the congressional Democrats follow the media's lead. Long
ago they put party and power above victory in this war. McCarthy's
ties to Clinton threaten to take attention from their unrelenting
attack on the Bush administration and their claims of incompetence in
the management of the war, which they see as their ticket to majority
status in 2006.

Putting that aside, the discovery of McCarthy does make you wonder how
many more of her ilk have squirreled themselves into the bureaucracy,
from where they seek to undermine the country.


--
"There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to
whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is
impossible." -- Jack Vance

"Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages." -- Will Durant.

"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography" -- Ambrose Bierce

"Long term commitment in relationships is only necessary because it takes
so damn long to raise children. Marriage may well be some kind of trick
to keep the males around beyond sexual satiation." -- Captain Compassion

"Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
--Will Durant

Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMverizon.net

Who is Mary McCarthy?
http://levin.nationalreview.com/archives/095634.asp

Well, as of this morning (Saturday) most of the big media don't care.
They're fixated with the weather and gas prices - and anything else
that will divert the public's attention from the stunning revelation
that a Sandy Berger crony has apparently been leaking top-secret
information from her high post at the CIA. The media will continue to
downplay this story as they cover-up their own role in exposing our
nation's secrets, including the supposed existence of CIA prisons in
Europe. She'll be called a "whistleblower" and praised as some kind of
patriot (a patriot, in the eyes of the media, is anybody who
undermines this administration and the war effort by leaking national
security secrets to them). They will downplay that McCarthy was a
Clintonoid who somehow managed to land a top post at the CIA,
ultimately winding up in the CIA's Inspector General's Office, from
where she could monitor CIA internal investigations of, well, leaks,
among other things.

The news spin, to the extent attention is being paid to this by the
big media outlets, is that McCarthy's firing is unprecedented! Or it's
Bush's fault! In one of the most absurd comments by any newsman
anywhere, Newsbusters.org notes that Bob Schieffer of CBS Evening News
asserted that "it is no secret that the current administration does
not like its people hanging out with news reporters without
permission" and he described the firing as "a first - a dubious first,
to be sure." Here. Is this guy for real?

If she leaked she must be charged. I wonder what Schieffer would say
then? I suppose he would urge that she receive the Presidential Medal
of Freedom. After all, the Washington Post's Dana Priest, who
apparently served as McCarthy's stenographer, was just awarded the
Pulitzer Prize.

I must say, however, that the media's sickening hypocrisy knows no
bounds. They came to the defense of Joe Wilson and his wife, Valerie
Plame, who worked behind-the-scenes to get her husband that
"fact-finding" trip to Niger. They demanded an investigation into who
"leaked" Plame's identity to Bob Novak - which ensnared their own
reporters. They hoped they would critically wound the president, and
they failed. Clearly Plame was not undercover and the revelation of
her identity was not a crime. Lewis Libby now stands accused of lying
about a crime that never occurred and the media think that's a good
thing.

Now comes Mary McCarthy, who apparently leaked real classified
national-security secrets and the media largely dismiss it or defend
it. They have no curiosity about McCarthy, the extent of her leaks, to
whom she leaked (beyond Priest, did she leak to other reporters,
members of Congress, other governments?), how she secured top security
posts, and her ties to the Clinton administration. Surely there is
every reason the government should pursue this investigation at least
as vigorously as the Plame matter has been pursued. Dana Priest, among
others, should have her day before a grand jury.

And watch the congressional Democrats follow the media's lead. Long
ago they put party and power above victory in this war. McCarthy's
ties to Clinton threaten to take attention from their unrelenting
attack on the Bush administration and their claims of incompetence in
the management of the war, which they see as their ticket to majority
status in 2006.

Putting that aside, the discovery of McCarthy does make you wonder how
many more of her ilk have squirreled themselves into the bureaucracy,
from where they seek to undermine the country.

--
"There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to
whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is
impossible." -- Jack Vance

"Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages." -- Will Durant.

"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography" -- Ambrose Bierce

"Long term commitment in relationships is only necessary because it takes
so damn long to raise children. Marriage may well be some kind of trick
to keep the males around beyond sexual satiation." -- Captain Compassion

"Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
--Will Durant

Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMverizon.net

Who is Mary McCarthy?
http://levin.nationalreview.com/archives/095634.asp

Putting that aside, the discovery of McCarthy does make you wonder how
many more of her ilk have squirreled themselves into the bureaucracy,
from where they seek to undermine the country.

Who is Mary McCarthy?
http://levin.nationalreview.com/archives/095634.asp