The 48-year-old former CIA agent John Kiriakou, who worked for the spy agency between 1990 and 2004 and was involved in the capture of a ‘terror suspect,’ received the jail term on Friday by US District Judge Leonie Brinkema, who proclaimed that the sentence she issued was “way too light.”
The judge harshly rejected the notion that Kiriakou was a whistleblower concerned about the illegal use of harsh torture tactics by American spies and intelligence officers and said, “This is a case of a man who betrayed a solemn trust.”
In a 2007 televised interview with the US-based ABC News, Kiriakou offered a dramatic description of the use of waterboarding in torturing a suspect that he had helped capture, Zayn al-Abidin Muhammed Hussein, also identified as Abu Zubaida.
Furthermore in 2008 and 2009, Kiriakou reportedly revealed to journalists the name of a CIA agent who had taken part in interrogation and torture of suspects captured by the agency’s operatives abroad, court documents allege.
Government prosecutors claim that Kiriakou’s motive for detailing the use of torture tactics by American officers was to raise his media profile to get consulting work and sell copies of a book he wrote about his involvement in the US “war on terror.”
According to local press reports, Kiriakou was the first individual convicted in the past 27 years of violating the “Intelligence Identities Protection Act” and his prosecution is part of a wider crackdown on the disclosure of “national security information” by the Obama administration.
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JUST another whore,who took an oath to protect the us constitution,and lyed to get her job,thats what happens when you allow a foreign national to be president,he hires every whore he ever had sex with to a high paying job,corporations do it all the time and then let the tax payers pick up the bill………………………
You are certainly correct about the political whore part. Someone like her should never be elevated to the bench. She unfortunately brings the judical system into disrespect.
Yes there are braindead judges around and they usually get where they are through connections. I’m sure this one would let the actual torturers off free if they were ever brought before her.
It would be nice to see the Judge sentenced to lead poisoning.
I was tortured for almost 3 years by the FBI and their friends only
because 85 years old man, Roland H Sibens(chicago), NOW HE IS 88, convinced them that I
am a terrorist. I was tortured for working on my prosthetic legs in
the basement. I done absolutely nothing illegal or wrong. They thought
that in theory it is possible to hide bomb in them. They saw an
opportunity to get famous, so they were trying to torture me till I
sign their insane story. They tortured me using more than 100
different torturing methods and trust to me waterboarding is not how
they torture nowadays. I dont know where to find justice.
I think that after 9/11 things got out of control. Freedom fighters
became tyrants. In 1945, most Germans had an opportunity to learn about Nazis death
camps. I hope that one day American citizens will get chance to learn about people
like me, who were tortured with no reason for years.
Jacob,the lord has something special planned for the government thugs,I won’t tell you about it,lets just let it be a surprise for them,but trust me jacob,messing around with the BIG guy is really stupid,and all these government thugs are total morons……………………