memeorandum @ 1:50 AM ET, April 22, 2006

1:50 AM ET, April 22, 2006

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CIA Officer Fired for Leaking Classified Info to Media — WASHINGTON — A CIA officer has been relieved of his duty after being caught leaking classified information to the media. — CIA officials will not reveal the officer's name, assignment, or the information that was leaked.

Discussion: In From the Cold, A Blog For All, Power Line, Ace of Spades HQ, Wizbang, Gay Patriot, The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta, Dr. Sanity, Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, Secular Blasphemy, In the Bullpen and In Search Of Utopia

New York Times:

C.I.A. Fires Senior Officer Over Leaks — WASHINGTON, April 21 — The Central Intelligence Agency has dismissed a senior career officer for disclosing classified information to reporters, including material for Pulitzer Prize-winning articles in The Washington Post about the agency's secret overseas prisons …

Discussion: The Strata-Sphere, TalkLeft and Ace of Spades HQ

CBS News:

A Spy Speaks Out — (CBS) A CIA official who had a top role during the run-up to the Iraqi war charges the White House with ignoring intelligence that said there were no weapons of mass destruction or an active nuclear program in Iraq. — The former highest ranking CIA officer in Europe …

Discussion: Amygdala, AMERICAblog, Shakespeare's Sister and The Democratic Daily Blog

William Branigin / Washington Post:

CIA Fires Employee for Alleged Leak — The CIA announced today that it has fired an employee for leaking classified information to the news media. — The termination of the unidentified officer was announced to CIA employees yesterday after an internal investigation of the leaks.

Discussion: Hugh Hewitt, Riehl World View, PrairiePundit and In the Bullpen

AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:

NSA Leak Investigation Nabs First Criminal — *** Welcome Michelle Malkin readers! Make sure to check out the links coming in to the comments to see what other bloggers are saying on this matter. Update: Keep an eye on the comments for links coming in from readers and other blogs.

Discussion: protein wisdom

Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute: CIA Officer Sacked For Leaking

Confederate Yankee: CIA Officer Didn't CYA

Richard A. Oppel Jr / New York Times:

Shiites Agree on Pick for Prime Minister — BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 21 — Shiite leaders selected Jawad al-Maliki, a hard-line and outspoken Shiite leader, to replace the outgoing prime minister, Ibrahim al-Jaafari. The move could resolve a two-month-long political deadlock …

Discussion: Informed Comment, american footprints, Needlenose and Blue Crab Boulevard

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BBC:
Iraqi Shia bloc names PM choice

Discussion: Big Lizards

Omar / IRAQ THE MODEL: Jawad who? — If you listened to what our top politicians …

Robert Mayer / Publius Pundit:
NEW PRIME MINISTER NOMINEE FOR IRAQ

Discussion: Gateway Pundit

Matthew Barakat / Associated Press:

Lawyer: Rice Allegedly Leaked Defense Info — ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice leaked national defense information to a pro-Israel lobbyist in the same manner that landed a lower-level Pentagon official a 12-year prison sentence, the lobbyist's lawyer said Friday.

Discussion: TalkLeft, The Sideshow, Daily Kos and NewsHog

Michael J. Totten:

Back to Iraq Part VI - Smuggling My Way Out of Iraq — This is the sixth and final installment in a Back to Iraq series which is basically a single long essay. Don't miss Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, and Part Five. — ZAKHO, IRAQ - Getting into Iraq was easy.

Discussion: Brainster's Blog and The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta

Digby / Hullabaloo:

True Romance — Via Tristram Shandy I see that TIME's in-house faux liberal is at it again, this time giving Hugh Hewitt a private lap dance instead of dancing around the pole for everyone to see: … . And people wonder why liberals are popularly perceived as being cowards.

Discussion: TAPPED and Ezra Klein

John W. Dean / FindLaw's Writ:

If Past Is Prologue, George Bush Is Becoming An Increasingly Dangerous President — President George W. Bush's presidency is a disaster - one that's still unfolding. In a mid-2004 column, I argued that, at that point, Bush had already demonstrated that he possessed the least attractive …

Discussion: Preemptive Karma, In Search Of Utopia, WTF Is It Now??, Pam's House Blend, State of the Day and skimble

Pink Lady / In The Pink Texas:

Ask Not What Your Bloggers Can Do For You, Ask What You Can Do For Your Bloggers — *UPDATE* - Due to popular demand (and by 'popular,' I mean a couple requests), it's time to start captioning these photos. I'll start. Photo #9, me at the beginning of the night. Photo #36, me at the end of the night.

Discussion: PinkDome, Common Sense, The Agonist and Grits for Breakfast

Will / Attytood:

Free-speech outrage: Wenyi Wang may be charged with federal crime for daring to criticize the president...of China — Earlier today, we made the point that if you consider 1989's so-called "Tank Man" of Tiananmen Square to be a hero for standing up to China's totalitarian regime …

Discussion: The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta, Michelle Malkin, Liberty Street, The All Spin Zone, Norwegianity, The Heretik, Hit and Run, WTF Is It Now??, The Peking Duck and AMERICAblog

Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:

Proven wisdom — One of the most bizarre aspects of our current political debates is that the very people who were most glaringly and incessantly wrong about virtually everything prior to the invasion of Iraq are still held out as some sort of wise foreign policy experts.

Discussion: Fact-esque, NewsHog, Left I on the News and Firedoglake

Roger L. Simon:

Playing Freud with Hiltzik — I'm actually feeling a bit sorry for LAT columnist Michael Hiltzik who is undergoing something of a "skimmity ride" (see Thomas Hardy) across the blogosphere and now the mainstream media. For those few who don't know, the Pulitzer Prize winner was caught posting

Discussion: Hugh Hewitt, BuzzMachine, Independent Sources, Ace of Spades HQ, Expose the Left and Carol Platt Liebau

The Majority Report:

KATHERINE HARRIS GIVES EVERYTHING SHE HAS TO YOUNG REPORTER — Scribe and friend-of-show Stephen Elliott snapped these photos while traveling with Katherine Harris this week. Harris is fawning over Justin Richards of the University of Florida, Gainesville student newspaper.

Discussion: In Search Of Utopia