The plot thickens in the case of CIA agent Mary McCarthy, who was fired last week for supposedly leaking information about the CIA's network of secret prisons to the press.
While the CIA at the time had indicated that McCarthy had confessed to the leak, apparently she is now denying it. And her lawyer has indicated that McCarthy didn't even have access to the information in question.
Furthermore, we now learn that McCarthy had worked in the Clinton administration and for the John Kerry campaign.
[Read the latest.]
Valerie Plame's CIA career was destroyed because she was married to a critic of the Bush administration. Could the McCarthy thing be another case of an innocent CIA employee being unjustly punished for the company she keeps? Or was she simply in the wrong place at the wrong time?
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