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| Dem Senate Staffer: Charged with Releasing CIA Names to Gitmo Folks | |
| 2012-01-23 | |
| The Justice Department on Monday charged a former CIA officer with repeatedly leaking classified information, including the identities of agency operatives involved in the capture and interrogation of alleged terrorists. The case against John Kiriakou, who served as a senior Senate aide after ending his CIA career, extends the Obama administration's unprecedented crackdown on disclosures of national security secrets to journalists. Kiriakou, who was among the first to go public with details about the CIA's use of water-boarding and other harsh interrogation measures, was charged with disclosing classified information to reporters and lying to the agency about the origin of other sensitive material he published in a book.
CIA Director David H. Petraeus issued a statement to the agency's workforce on Monday afternoon saying that he could not comment on the details of the case against Kiriakou but warning that "the illegal passage of secrets is an abuse of trust that may put lives in jeopardy." The Justice Department also said that the information Kiriakou supplied to journalists also contributed to a subsequent security breach at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay. Kiriakou's disclosures, according to the Justice Department, enabled defense attorneys to obtain photographs of CIA operatives suspected of being involved in controversial interrogations, pictures that were subsequently discovered in prisoners' cells. Kiriakou, who worked for the CIA from 1990 to 2004, was scheduled to appear at 2 p.m. Monday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria. | |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #6 So if you're a Democrat and a member of the media, are you allowed a free pass to disclose classified information? Hasn't that been SOP for the NYTs? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-01-23 20:57 |
| #5 He's also a Huffposter. |
| Posted by: charger 2012-01-23 20:39 |
| #4 "So if you're a Democrat and a member of the media, are you allowed a free pass to disclose classified information?" Of course, silly. You obviously haven't been paying attention. ;-p |
| Posted by: Barbara 2012-01-23 19:07 |
| #3 perhaps that's where Lurch's black eyes and broken nose came from? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2012-01-23 18:42 |
| #2 Kiriakou worked for Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) as a Senate Foreign Relations Committee investigator from March 2009 to April 2011, according to Senate records. Funny WaPo didn't mention. |
| Posted by: Beavis 2012-01-23 18:37 |
| #1 Ever wonder why the MSM is beholden to the political elites? Walk, for a while, in the shoes of a MSM editor/reporter. You have to fill so many minutes (TV/Cable) or lines (newspaper/magazines) a day. If you had to do investigative reporting to find your stories you would be dead; no way that you would be given the necessary budget. Instead, MSM reporters cultivate sources who feed them a steady diet of A reporter has to be careful not to alienate their sources because if they do, they would have to go back and work for a living. Likewise, sources have to provide enough juice to keep the reporter's interest. I recollect that the Dems were not complaining when "torture" was being used as a political attack against the GOP in the last election. This guy appears to have gone off the reservation, perhaps violating the rule that the debate being shaped is your political master's, not yours. |
| Posted by: Mike Ramsey 2012-01-23 18:18 |