The heavies at CIA took the same polygraph test as McCarthy

NY Times:

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The special polygraphs, which have been given to dozens of employees since January, are part of a broader effort by Porter J. Goss, the director of the C.I.A., to re-emphasize a culture of secrecy that has included a marked tightening of the review process for books and articles by former agency employees.

As the inspector general, Mr. Helgerson was the supervisor of Mary O. McCarthy, who was fired Thursday after admitting she had leaked classified information to reporters about secret C.I.A. detention centers and other subjects, agency officials said.

Mr. Goss and the C.I.A.'s deputy director, Vice Adm. Albert M. Calland III, voluntarily submitted to polygraph tests during the leak investigation to show they were willing to experience the same scrutiny they were asking other employees to undergo, agency officials said. Mr. Helgerson likewise submitted to the lie-detector test, they said.

But Mr. Helgerson's status as the independent inspector general — a post to which he was appointed by the president and from which only the president can remove him — makes his submission to a polygraph even more unusual.

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The renewed emphasis on the culture of secrecy has included a tightening of the review process for books and articles by former agency employees, according to Mark S. Zaid, a lawyer who represents many authors who once worked for the C.I.A.

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It is pretty hard to turn down the test when the boss took it. Of course, in the CIA culture, refusal to take the test is probably grounds for termination anyway. Note the article mentions again "other subjects" besides just the detention facilities that McCarthy made unauthorized disclosures about. Hopefully some blogger will be able to scrub leaks over the last couple of years and figure out which stories they may have been, since we know the media will continue their coverup, in the hopes that new leakers will step forward.

There is at least a hint at stories they may have been in the "other subjects" category. In a discussion of the work in the IG's office it reveals "Mr. Helgerson's office, which investigates accusations of lapses in the ethics or performance of agency employees, has investigated some of the most serious controversies of recent years,..."

The story still does not address the political nature of McCarthy's leaking. That is one of the obvious unfair aspects of using anonomous sources since you are not given the opportunity to see the biases and motives of the source. However, the media double standard on sources is pretty obvious. If a story hurts the administration, the source is altrusistic, but if the source gives information supporting the administration then the source is suspect. This, of course, is not the double standard that the Democrats talk about. To the Democrats, authorized disclosures that rebut unfounded charges by Democrats like Joe Wilson, are bad. In the Democrat world, the administration should not defend itself against charges made by their moles in the CIA.