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from NewsMax.com
The CIA officer fired Friday for leaking classified information to the Washington Post about U.S. counterterrorism efforts once served as a top intelligence aide to President Clinton.
Appointed in 1998 by then-National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, Mary O’Neil McCarthy held the post of Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Intelligence Programs.
Prior to her appointment as President Clinton’s Special Assistant, McCarthy served as the Clinton administration’s National Intelligence Officer for Warning from 1994-1996.
The loose-lipped spy was fired from her White House job in the first few months of the Bush adminsitration and returned to the CIA.
McCarthy allegedly leaked critical national security information to Washington Post reporter Dana Priest, who went on to report that the CIA maintained a secret network of prisons overseas for high-ranking terrorism suspects.
The former top Clinton advisor was cashiered after reportedly failing a polygraph test conducted as part of several CIA investigations into leaks. On Thursday she was escorted from the agency’s Langley campus in McLean, Va., an agency official told the Los Angeles Times.
One U.S. official indicated that McCarthy had engaged in a “pattern of contacts” with more than one reporter, the Times said. McCarthy has not been indicted in the case, though the Justice Department began a criminal investigation into the CIA prison leak last December.
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