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Ending partisan guerrilla warfare at the CIA won't solve all the agency's problems certainly, but it's a start. The president, whether Republican or Democrat, must have an intelligence capability that is strictly non-partisan. It goes without saying that the CIA and all other intelligence agencies must be counted on to keep the nation's secrets.

It is simply unacceptable for individuals to decide which secrets they think are important to keep and which they choose to share. Agents who have moral qualms about what they are doing should get out of the business, and those who violate the law by revealing secrets should be aggressively prosecuted.

It's unclear at this point whether the Justice Department will pursue prosecuting McCarthy, but to ignore what appear to be flagrant violations of her oath of office and intelligence laws would send a very bad message to others at the agency. With federal prosecutors still pursuing leaks of far less damaging information in the Valerie Plame incident, it sets a troubling double standard not to prosecute McCarthy.

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Linda Chavez is the author of the new book, "Betrayal: How Union Bosses Shake Down Their Members and Corrupt American Politics."

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