The Central Intelligence Agency has fired a longtime officer named Mary McCarthy. The CIA accused her of leaking classified information to the press about how the agency is running secret prisons in several foreign countries including two in Eastern Europe. McCarthy had worked at the CIA for over two decades most recently in the Inspector General’s office where she investigated allegations of CIA-backed torture inside Iraqi prisons. Former State Department counterterrorism expert Larry Johnson said QUOTE “I am struck by the irony that Mary McCarthy may have been fired for blowing the whistle and ensuring the truth about an abuse was told to the American people.”