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After complaining for nearly a year about intelligence leaks to the press, CIA Director Porter Goss last week fingered his first alleged media mole. The agency fired a senior analyst for allegedly discussing secret information with the press, including the Washington Post's Dana Priest, whose story on a network of covert CIA prisons for suspected terrorists was informed by this source and won a Pulitzer Prize last week. CIA spokesmen refused to name the analyst, but other officials confirm that she is Mary McCarthy, a CIA veteran who served on the National Security Council under Presidents Bill Clinton...
...phone screens without having to buy pricey video packages from mobile-phone carriers. Still, detractors question whether there is much of a demand for the Slingbox beyond sports nuts. "The Slingbox will spread, but only among a die-hard technology enthusiast group that loves electronics," says Josh Bernoff, an analyst with Forrester Research. Krikorian, of course, has almost a missionary's sense that his product will succeed. "We're tripling the number of TVs on the planet," he says, exaggerating for effect. But of all the hyped technology predictions of recent years, the most believable are usually the ones that...
...Skilling's testimony fly with the jury? The man famous for cussing out an analyst in a phone call had a sad, demure face as he took the witness stand two weeks ago for some gentle questioning by his attorney, Daniel Petrocelli. But Skilling's attitude toward prosecutor Sean Berkowitz - another Harvard man himself - was often dismissive; he all but said the government's guy was not smart enough to understand the company's financial charts. Later, perhaps fearing he was coming across as pompous, he stumbled over the phrase "net worth." "Is it net wealth?" he asked...
...Citing stringent federal privacy laws, the CIA would not reveal any identifiying information about the dismissed employee - including their length of service or whether they were an operational spy or analyst, for example, or even their gender. As a result, it was not immediately possible to seek comment from the individual...
...Over the past decade, Whole Foods has defined and reshaped the industry," says Edward Aaron, analyst at RBC Capital Markets. "They have pronounced the traditional health-food-store format dead and put together a higher-end specialty experience while attracting a much broader customer base...