CIA officer fired over media leak was key senior analyst

[Flabbergasted]

Paper: She once guarded most sensitive secrets
By Katherine Shrader, Associated Press | April 23, 2006

WASHINGTON -- The CIA's decision to fire a top intelligence analyst accused of leaking classified information became a political issue almost immediately after it became public last week.

The officer was a senior analyst nearing retirement, Mary O. McCarthy, who the agency said leaked information to news organizations about a secret network of CIA prisons.

McCarthy was once responsible for guarding some of the nation's most sensitive secrets as a senior aide for the National Security Council, The New York Times reported in today's editions, citing several current and former government officials.

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