The same claim that got Scooter Libby indicted and sentenced to the same 30 months in jail for outing CIA agent Valerie Plame as retaliation against her husband for publicly declaring that one of the excuses to attack Iraq was false. Libby did not serve one day, that part of his sentence being commuted by George W. Bush.The one man in the whole archipelago of America’s secret horrors who went to jail is former CIA officer John Kiriakou. Of the untold numbers of men and women involved in the whole nightmare show of those years, only one.
And of course, he didn’t torture anyone.
The charges against Kiriakou alleged that in answering questions from reporters about suspicions that the CIA tortured detainees in its custody, he violated the Espionage Act, once an obscure World War I-era law that aimed at punishing Americans who gave aid to the enemy. It was passed in 1917 and has been the subject of much judicial and Congressional doubt ever since. Kiriakou is one of six government whistleblowers who have been charged under the Act by the Obama administration. From 1917 until Obama came into office, only three people had ever charged in this way.
The Obama Justice Department claimed the former CIA officer “disclosed classified information to journalists, including the name of a covert CIA officer and information revealing the role of another CIA employee in classified activities.”
Robert Parry
Kiriakou is still serving his 30 months.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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