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 …

The Leaker & Al-Shifa  —  The word is out that CIA agent Mary McCarthy has been fingered as one source of information for The Washington Post's Dana Priest.  McCarthy apparently provided Priest with information for her Pulitzer Prize winning coverage of the CIA's alleged secret terror prisons throughout Europe.

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:

A Sting Operation?  —  Rick Moran at Right Wing Nuthouse wonders if the story on CIA detention centers might not have been a sting operation to unmask leakers at Langley.  The possibility comes up because on the same day that the CIA terminated Mary McCarthy for her communications to the 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.

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 …