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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...
...Goss told TIME last June that "virtually every day I can pick up a paper and find somebody who is an anonymous source. That is willful. And it seems to me there ought to be a penalty for that." McCarthy's firing shows that Goss is acting on that frustration. "Every person who works at the CIA signs a secrecy agreement," says CIA spokeswoman Jennifer Millerwise Dyck, who declined to identify the leaker. "This individual violated that agreement...
...Government official told TIME that the fired officer admitted to conversations with the press after irregularities were spotted in a lie detector test. Soon after, Goss moved quickly to fire the individual...
...Goss spokeswoman Jennifer Millerwise Dyck would not discuss details but said the unauthorized disclosure was discovered in the course of "thorough internal investigations" that examined which CIA officers might have had access to classified information that had appeared in the news media. "Through the course of these investigations, a CIA officer acknowledged having unauthorized discussions with reporters in which the officer knowingly shared sensitive intelligence," Millerwise Dyck said. "Every person who works at the CIA signs a secrecy agreement specifically stating they're prohibited from discussing classified information with any individual who is not properly cleared to receive that material...
...Goss told the Senate intelligence committee on Feb. 2 that he had ordered "an investigation of finding out what leakage, if any, is coming out of that building. And I'm afraid there is some coming out. I've called in the FBI, the Department of Justice. It is my aim, and it is my hope, that we will witness a grand jury investigation with reporters present being asked to reveal who is leaking this information. I believe the safety of this nation and the people of this country deserve nothing less...