Treason!

Didn't we used to call someone whom leaked government strategies during wartime a traitor? Now, of course, the media hails them as "whistleblowers" ; unless they are blowing the whistle on Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson - then we have a security breach! From the Washington Post:

The CIA fired a long-serving intelligence officer for sharing classified information with The Washington Post and other news organizations, officials said yesterday, as the agency continued an aggressive internal search for anyone who may have discussed intelligence with the news media.
CIA officials said the career intelligence officer failed more than one polygraph test and acknowledged unauthorized contacts with reporters. The "officer knowingly and willfully shared classified intelligence, including operational information" with journalists, the agency said in a statement yesterday.

The CIA did not reveal the identity of the employee, who was dismissed Thursday, but NBC News reported last night she is Mary McCarthy...
....The CIA's statement did not name the reporters it believes were involved, but several intelligence officials said The Post's Dana Priest was among them. This week, Priest won the Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting for articles about the agency, including one that revealed the existence of secret, CIA-run prisons in Eastern Europe and elsewhere.

What would really be a travesty is if this McCarthy women escapes with simply a job loss. In many countries she would be have already been executed; I would settle for a simple trial to find out her thought process - did she spill the beans because she thought the administration was "wrong"? - and to use the legal process as an avenue to find other "leakers" whom feel that their disgreements with their boss allows them the latitude to damage national security.
The unveiling of the "secret renditions" caused major friction with allied governments (even those whom had allowed it, but assumed, rightly, that a secret was a secret) and curtailed one of our strategies in the war on terror. Turns out, like so many other media "scandals", that the U.S. did nothing wrong here. From the Boston Globe, no friend of the Bush administration:

EU official: No evidence of illegal CIA action - 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.
The investigations also have not turned up any proof of secret renditions of terror suspects on EU territory, Gijs de Vries told a European Parliament committee investigating the allegations.

Think of the lives you may have cost with your overblown rhetoric, Dana Priest, while you spit-shine your undeserved Pulitzer prize. A pox on you and the committee for glorifying treason, while gleefully demonizing America...

More in-depth info at Gateway Pundit
The Strata-Sphere reports that Senators Jay Rockefeller and Dick Durbin may be asked to take polygraph tests to determine their role in intelligence leaks...methinks damaging national security for partisan gain may prove to be a bit more interesting to the public mind than the outing of Valerie Plame...