CIA Officer Fired After Admitting 'Secret Prisons' Leak
An NBC News exclusive by Robert Windrem and Andrea Mitchell, via MSNBC, reports that:
In a rare occurrence, the CIA fired an officer who acknowledged giving classified information to a reporter, NBC News reported on Thursday. The agency’s spokeswoman confirmed the firing.More here.
The officer flunked a polygraph exam before being fired on Wednesday and is now under investigation by the Justice Department, NBC reported.
The leak pertained to stories on the CIA’s rumored secret prisons in Eastern Europe, sources told NBC. The information was allegedly provided to Dana Priest of the Washington Post, who wrote reports about CIA prisons in November 2005 and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize on Monday for her reporting.
posted by Fergie @ 4/21/2006 12:44:00 PM
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