A senior senior intelligence official said yesterday that the CIA is not “asserting that McCarthy was a key source” of Dana Priest’s award-winning articles last year disclosing the CIA’s secret prisons.

A lawyer representing fired CIA officer Mary O. McCarthy said yesterday that his client did not leak any classified information and did not disclose to Washington Post reporter Dana Priest the existence of secret CIA-run prisons in Eastern Europe for suspected terrorists. The statement by Ty Cobb, a lawyer in the Washington office of Hogan & Hartson who said he was speaking for McCarthy…

McCarthy was fired because the CIA concluded that she had undisclosed contacts with journalists, including Priest, in violation of a security agreement. That does not mean she revealed the existence of the prisons to Priest, Cobb said…

The NY Times reports, that the “case has increasingly taken on distinct partisan coloring.” The right-wing blogosphere has been pushing this implication to max…

Ms. McCarthy gave $2,000 to Senator John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign, and conservative commentators suggested that Ms. McCarthy had deliberately tried to sabotage President Bush’s policies by leaking to the news media.

One of McCarthy’s friends and former colleagues, Rand Beers, said Monday after speaking to McCarthy, that Mary O. McCarthy “categorically denies being the source of the leak.”

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