This isn't your father's McCarthyism

Forget the vastly overhyped "White House Shakeup". Look into the underreported "CIA Shakeup".

Day 1
and
Day 2

"If a shoe drops in Washington, and nobody reports about the left shoes, will it ever make headlines?"

update: Day 3

related: these three links at Discerning Texan. Hugh Hewitt's on the case too.

more: Andy McCarthy (via Powerline) summarizes:

Mary McCarthy’s situation cannot be considered in a vacuum... the broader context here is an intelligence community that was, quite brazenly, leaking in a manner designed to topple a sitting president.

It is simply dumbfounding that, as an intelligence officer heading up the bin Laden team, (Michael Scheuer) was permitted by the CIA to write books about what he was doing. He has indicated, though, that it was fine with the agency as long as he was slamming the Bush administration.

Valerie Plame Wilson... maneuvered to have, not an objective analyst, but her husband – with no WMD expertise but an enemy of the president’s policy – sent to Niger, whence he returned and wrote a highly partisan, misleading and damaging op-ed in the NYTimes about the Bush administration’s case for toppling Saddam.

All the while, there has been a steady drumbeat from the former intelligence officers... attacking every aspect of the administration’s handling of the war on terror...

Now we find that an intelligence officer who was leaking information very damaging to Bush was a Kerry backer to a degree that was extraordinary for a single person on a government salary, and, even more extraordinarily, gave $5K of her own money to Democrats in the key swing state (Ohio) that, in the end, did actually decide the election.

From where I sit, that’s pretty d*** relevant.

These CIA traitors should be glad they won't be treated like Saddam treated his dissidents (as much as they deserve it).