Voici le pot aux roses. Le New York Times<\/em> nous apprend, dans son \u00e9dition d’aujourd’hui<\/a>, que Mary O. McCarthy est l’officier de la CIA qui donna au Washington Post<\/em> les informations pour le fameux article<\/a> du 2 novembre 2005, qui d\u00e9clencha une fureur de quelques semaines (temps maximum des fureurs europ\u00e9ennes lorsqu’il s’agit des USA) concernant les vols, transits et interrogatoires robustes de prisonniers ill\u00e9gaux par la CIA dans l’espace a\u00e9rien et sur le sol europ\u00e9ens. McCarthy a \u00e9t\u00e9 en cons\u00e9quence d\u00e9charg\u00e9e de ses fonctions. Elle n’\u00e9tait pas n’importe qui.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00ab The C.I.A. would not identify the officer, but several government officials said it was Mary O. McCarthy, a veteran intelligence analyst who until 2001 was senior director for intelligence programs at the National Security Council, where she served under President Bill Clinton and into the Bush administration.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bb At the time of her dismissal, Ms. McCarthy was working in the agency’s inspector general’s office, after a stint at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, an organization in Washington that examines global security issues.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tMary O. McCarthy est le type m\u00eame de l’analyste intellectuelle et de tendance lib\u00e9rale, comme il y en avait pl\u00e9thore dans les d\u00e9buts de la CIA, succ\u00e9dant \u00e0 l’OSS en 1947, lorsque le grand service de renseignement US \u00e9tait \u00e9galement per\u00e7u comme un organisme de soutien<\/a> des intellectuels occidentaux contre le communisme : \u00ab Ms. McCarthy has been a well-known figure in intelligence circles. She began her career at the agency as an analyst and then was a manager in the intelligence directorate, working at the African and Latin America desks, according to a biography by the strategic studies center. With an advanced degree from the University of Minnesota, she has taught, written a book on the Gold Coast and was director of the social science data archive at Yale University. Public records show that Ms. McCarthy contributed $2,000 in 2004 to the presidential campaign of John Kerry, the Democratic nominee.<\/em> \u00bb <\/p>\n<\/p>\n