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9:50 AM ET, April 22, 2006

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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 …
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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.
Pam Benson / CNN:
CIA fires agent over leak to media  —  Information used in Pulitzer-winning story on secret prisons  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — The CIA has fired one of its officers for leaking classified information, an agency spokeswoman said Friday.  —  The officer admitted to "unauthorized discussions …
Jan Silva / Associated Press:
EU official: No evidence of illegal CIA action  —  Antiterror chief advises committee  —  BRUSSELS — Investigations into reports that US agents shipped prisoners through European airports to secret detention centers have produced no evidence of illegal CIA activities, the European Union's antiterrorism coordinator said yesterday.
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.
Curt / Flopping Aces:
The Democrat Mole In The CIA Fired  —  Hey, I get home from work and find out that the CIA has fired the leaker of the CIA prison story...NICE! … I wonder which Administration she held allegience to huh?  —  Even more ironic is this: … Priest gets the Pulitzer while hopefully …
Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
CIA VS. THE WHITE HOUSE: THE LEAKER AND THE SQUEALER  —  The war between the CIA and the White House took an interesting turn today as one CIA source for the press was rolled up and another came out of the closet.  —  First, the Agency announced the firing of an employee who has admitted speaking to the press:
Dan / Riehl World View:
CIA Leaker Mary O. McCarthy - Kerry Doner … Update: Prior to joining CSIS in August 2001, Mary O. McCarthy was a senior policy adviser to the CIA's deputy director for science and technology.  Until July 2001, she served as special assistant to the president and senior director …
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ and Hyscience
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:   CIA Officer Sacked For Leaking
Dan Bilefsky / New York Times:   No Proof of Secret C.I.A. Prisons, European Antiterror Chief Says
Douglas MacKinnon / Washington Times:
Pulitzer Prizes for treachery
Discussion: A Blog For All
AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:   CIA Leaker Leaked Multiple Times
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
A Sting Operation?  —  Rick Moran at Right Wing Nuthouse wonders …
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ
John / AMERICAblog:
CIA fires agent for doing same thing Bush, Rove and Libby did …
Discussion: The Heretik
David Morgan / Reuters:
CIA fires officer over alleged leak
Confederate Yankee:   CIA Officer Didn't CYA
Washington Post:
Top Shiites Nominate A Premier For Iraq  —  Al-Maliki Opposed Hussein And the U.S.-Led Invasion  —  BAGHDAD, April 21 — Jawad al-Maliki, an experienced political operator and advocate for Iraq's Shiite Muslims, won the approval of Shiite party leaders for the post of prime minister on Friday …
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Richard A. Oppel Jr / New York Times:
Shiites Settle on Pick for Iraqi Premier
Discussion: Power Line and TigerHawk
BBC:
Iraqi Shia bloc names PM choice
Discussion: Big Lizards
Omar / IRAQ THE MODEL:
Jawad who?  —  If you listened to what our top politicians …
Discussion: Informed Comment and Big Lizards
zonaeuropa.com:
Hu Jintao At The White House  —  This post is a consolidation of three previous comments here.  —  The Bush-Hu White House Press Conference (04/21/2006) At Bowenpress, four major mistakes were noted:  —  (1) The American master of ceremony announced that the national anthems of the Republic …
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Washington Post:
Overreacting to Protest  —  WENYI WANG acted rudely when she yelled …
Discussion: Swords Crossed
Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Dispatch from Iraq: A tiny bit of comfort  —  A soldier sees and feels a wider variety of sights and emotions in a year than most people will experience in a lifetime. ...  In my short time in the military I have experienced more suffering than I could have imagined before joining up.
Discussion: BLACKFIVE
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Gonzales calls for mandatory Web labeling law  —  Web site operators posting sexually explicit information must place official government warning labels on their pages or risk being imprisoned for up to five years, the Bush administration proposed Thursday.  —  A mandatory rating system will …
Discussion: Daily Pundit
Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications:
On Commenter Masha, Commenting from . . . You'll Never Guess!  —  This is rich.  Commenter "Masha" says (all emphasis mine): … The bloggers made him do it!  —  Read that comment again, with its ringing praise of the L.A. Times, and its silly caricature of bloggers as "worse than Pravda," spewing "idiotic propaganda."
Associated Press:
Top Democrat on House Ethics Panel Steps Down Temporarily  —  WASHINGTON — The top Democrat on the House ethics committee, Alan Mollohan, will leave the panel — at least temporarily — while he defends his own financial conduct, Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said Friday.
Discussion: Power Line, Wizbang and Sister Toldjah
Lewis Libby Indictment / TalkLeft:
Libby Team Admits Media Disclosures, Opposes Gag Order  —  On April 13, the judge in the Scooter Libby case issued an order (pdf) asking both sides to submit grounds in writing why a gag order should not be imposed as a result of disclosure of non-public information to the media and statements lawyers …
Discussion: Firedoglake and JustOneMinute
 
 
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