Oh, and incidentally...

Mary O'Neil McCarthy, the CIA officer fired for blabbing national secrets to the Washington Post, was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Intelligence Programs in the Clinton Administration.

Note the care taken by another notoriously partisan Democratic newspaper- The New York Times- to mention her brief service as a temporary holdover under the Bush Administration in this article, a rather dishonest piece of jounalistic spin reminiscent of the media's widespread attempt to portray Clinton appointee and anti-Bush grandstander Richard Clarke as a "Bush insider" on the basis of a similar, short-term service when he gave his rather sensationally partisan testimony to the 9/11 Commission.

Note, too, how that article manages to present the dismissal of a serving CIA officer for betrayal of her oath in deliberately revealing classified information not as something that would go without saying under any administration of either party , but rather as evidence of an idiosyncratic and vaguely sinister Bush Administration penchant for secrecy!

McCarthy was appointed by Clinton's National Security Advisor, Sandy Berger, who himself pled guilty in 2005 to mishandling classified documents.

There's a story here, all right. Just not the one being reported. And it's one that wouldn't make the party the Post and the Times shill for look very good at all.

HT: Drudge