While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are in Afghanistan, Djibouti, Iraq, the Philippines and west Africa defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” the Central Intelligence Agency fires Mary O. McCarthy, a 22 year CIA veteran, for leaking information to the Washington Post regarding the agency’s secret prisons in eastern Europe.

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Subsequent Events:

References:

David S. Cloud, “McCarthy Held High-Level Posts Inside Spy Agency,” Orange County (California) Register, 23 April 2006, News:12-13.

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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