Continuing a trend that began last year with the Justice Department's sweetheart plea bargain for confessed national security document thief Sandy Berger, department lawyers are said to be reluctant to prosecute accused CIA leaker Mary McCarthy.
The National Review Online's Byron York reports:
"Since the firing of McCarthy rested in large part on her failure of a CIA-administered polygraph test - evidence that would not be admissible in court - the Justice Department might ultimately decide not to take action against her."
A decision not to prosecute McCarthy would come despite what sounds like a smoking gun confession, with the CIA saying last week that an unnamed officer - identified by others as McCarthy - admitted to having "unauthorized discussions with the media in which the officer knowingly and willfully shared classified intelligence, including operational information."
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