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12:45 PM 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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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 …
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 …
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
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 …
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:
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.
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.
Dan Bilefsky / New York Times:
No Proof of Secret C.I.A. Prisons, European Antiterror Chief Says  —  BRUSSELS, April 20 — The European Union's antiterrorism chief told a hearing on Thursday that he had not been able to prove that secret C.I.A. prisons existed in Europe.  —  "We've heard all kinds of allegations," …
Dan / Riehl World View:
CIA Leaker Mary O. McCarthy - Kerry Doner
Dean / Dean's World:
National Intelligence Officer Mary O. McCarthy: First Traitor Nabbed
Discussion: The Belmont Club and PrairiePundit
Douglas MacKinnon / Washington Times:
Pulitzer Prizes for treachery
Discussion: BrothersJudd Blog
John / AMERICAblog:   CIA fires agent for doing same thing Bush, Rove and Libby did …
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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Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Iraqi Lawmakers End Months of Deadlock  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's president formally designated Shiite politician Jawad al-Maliki to form a new government Saturday, starting a process aimed at healing ethnic and religious wounds and pulling the nation out of insurgency and sectarian strife.
Richard A. Oppel Jr / New York Times:
Shiites Settle on Pick for Iraqi Premier
Discussion: TigerHawk
Associated Press:
Senior Democrat on House ethics committee stepping down  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — 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.
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Democrat Leaves Ethics Panel  —  Rep. Alan B. Mollohan (W.Va.) stepped down temporarily from his post as ranking Democrat on the House ethics committee, amid accusations that he used his congressional position to funnel money to his own home-state foundations, possibly enriching himself in the process.
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:
Leaders Question Gasoline Prices  —  Congressional leaders yesterday planned to ask President Bush to order investigations into possible price gouging by oil companies as crude oil prices hit new highs on world markets and average gasoline prices in the nation's capital blew through the $3-a-gallon mark.
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MSNBC:
New day, new high: Oil tops $75 a barrel
Discussion: Demagogue and The Agonist
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 …
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 …
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
 
 
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