A New Round of McCarthyism

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"The Difference?

"One is a Republican

"One is a Democrat.

"Yet, John Kerry comes out and says that Mary McCarthy should be looked at as a 'whistleblower.' The women confessed to violating the law and she's a whistleblower? Why should she get a pass?"

Late Final observes that McCarthy cannot have acted alone, if indeed she did aid in the leak:

"Whodunnit?

"Mary McCarthy denies being a source of leaked information for Dana Priest's story on 'black sites' that the U.S. used to imprison captured terrorists.

"But a lot of other folks may have reason to worry. From Priest's original story - which won her a Pulitzer - here are her source attributions:

" . . . according to U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the arrangement.

" . . . according to current and former intelligence officials and diplomats from three continents.

" . . . said one former senior intelligence officer who is familiar with the program but not the location of the prisons.

" . . . according to current and former U.S. intelligence officials and foreign sources. This figure, a rough estimate based on information from sources who said their knowledge of the numbers was incomplete, does not include prisoners picked up in Iraq.

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