Rogue CIA Leakers Imperiled as IG Officer McCarthy Busted

Looks like the polygraph-flunker Mary O. McCarthy denies leaking secrets to Dana Priest for the Pulitzer-winning secret prisons story [which has never been proven by frantic EU searches for the supposed "secret prisons"]. Her credibility with the MSM is unscathed by her inability to pass lie-detecter tests, which girlie-men oath-breakers like Larry Johnson and Roy McGovern will deny have any credibility or usefulness.

Allahpundit has a long blogroll of articles and blogs pertaining to the busted McCarthy, whose meteoric rise in the CIA may have been assisted [dare I surmise] by hidden hands with similar agendas?

For instance, McCarthy and discredited whistleblower Wilson may have conspired to embarrass the Bush Administration on the yellowcake/Niger connection. As Christopher Hitchens has pointed out, Wilson had no expertise on WMD or much else in Africa, and was probably sent as part of a nepotistic [both marital and ideological] cabal to undermine GWB's GWOT.

Feckless Eff-Up James Scheuer was too busy publishing anti-Bush agitprop to properly do his job catching UbL. Funny how these left-wingers mess up and then point fingers [like the massive decades-long CIA wrongheadedness on the USSR---not the spooks fault that the USSR crumbled---that was the fault of Reagan and the Pope].

The best part of Allahpundit's piece is as follows [has anyone else noted that the huge national security leaks are usually accompanied by photos of Rove and Libby---as if Plame were some sort of VIP? The MSM uses old NKVD agitprop tricks as a matter of course]:

Porter Goss personally oversaw the McCarthy investigation instead of handing it off to the DOJ per standard protocol. Why? Maybe because he wanted to send a message to other CIA employees. Maybe because the story she spilled the beans on was so sensitive. Or maybe because McCarthy, by virtue of her position in the IG’s office, is perfectly positioned to roll over on other leakers inside the agency. If anyone’s likely to know who else is leaking, it stands to reason it’d be someone within the CIA’s version of internal affairs; possibly Goss figures that if he knocks her over, a lot of other dominos will tumble. There do seem to be plenty of other dominos out there: nearly every story this weekend about McCarthy emphasized that her dismissal is part of a broader campaign to ferret out leakers in various parts of the intelligence community. This AP story – illustrated with a photo of Scooter Libby, natch – claims there are “dozens” of leak investigations under way. And one sensational report from MichNews quoted former DoD official (and current NRO contributor) Jed Babbin as saying the crackdown may lead to polygraph tests for Democratic Senators Jay Rockefeller and Dick Durbin, both of whom have been accused of leaks in the past. It’s not clear from the article whether Babbin has an inside scoop or whether he’s just thinking out loud, but wild speculation sure is fun!

Yes, it sure would be great to see moles like Durbin and Rockefeller spewing out epithets like "Hitler" and "Nazis" again if and when their perfidy were unmasked. Too bad that probably won't happen, as the Senate is full of leakers on both sides of the aisle and will probably provoke their own skewed "legislative privilege" arguments.

Too bad Bush will probably allow himself to be Mau-Maued by the MSM's elevation of Mary McCarthy into an existential hero. A rogue CIA needs to be brought under control, and GWB will probably blink rather than wade into a bloodbath at Langley.

UPDATE: More fun for connect-the-dotters:

Righty bloggers have also been having fun playing connect-the-dots with the various moonbat hearthrobs making cameos in this story: McCarthy, Beers, Richard Clarke (for whom McCarthy once worked at the NSC), Joe Wilson, John Kerry (who received the lion’s share of the McCarthys’ political donations), and Dana Priest and her husband William Goodfellow, who happens to be Executive Director of the Center for International Policy, which advocates rapprochement with Fidel Castro’s Cuba. Smells real bad, but there’s much less here than meets the eye: as mentioned above, the best anyone’s been able to do thus far conspiracy-wise is put McCarthy and Wilson on the NSC at the same time eight years ago, which is hardly damning. Some bloggers have attempted to link Goodfellow’s CIP to something called the Iraq Policy Information Program, which allegedly arranges anti-war speaking gigs for Joey Yellowcake. I’ve tried Googling the IPIP, though, and I can’t even find independent confirmation that it exists. The only mentions of it come from Discover The Network, FrontPage, Free Republic, and a few righty blogs. If anyone can help, I’d appreciate it. UPDATE: Existence confirmed. See below.