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Agorism
01-26-2013, 04:02 PM
The First Prison Sentence Related To Gitmo Torture Goes To Someone Who Spoke Out Against It

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/01/25/1497571/kiriakou-gitmo-torture/

Ex-CIA officer John C. Kiriakou became the first person to be sentenced to prison for issues related to torture at Guantanamo Bay on Friday– because he talked about, but did not participate in, “enhanced interrogation” techniques. Kiriakou pleaded guilty to one count of violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act in October for revealing the name of a former operative involved the Bush era’s brutal interrogation of detainees at Guantanamo to a reporter.
Kiriakou worked as a CIA operative for more than two decades and led a March 2002 raid that captured high-ranking Al Qaeda suspect Abu Zubaydah. He was also a vocal torture opponent who revealed his knowledge of U.S. enhanced interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, in an ABC interview in 2007. A confidential 2004 International Committee of the Red Cross report stated that the intentional physical and psychological harm done to detainees at Guantanamo was “tantamount to torture.” While several soldiers involved in the Abu Graib prison scandal were prosecuted and sentenced, the conviction of the only officer court-martialed was thrown out in 2008, and no one has ever been prosecuted for abuse at Guantanamo Bay. Leonie M. Brinkema, the judge who sentenced Kiriakou called his punishment “way too light.”
Kiriakou is the first ever CIA agent to be prosecuted under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, and the first successful conviction under the statute in 27 years. His case continues a trend of harsh, but selective, crackdowns on whistle-blowers and intelligence leaks by the Obama administration; The Justice Department has prosecuted more government officials for alleged leaks under the World War I-era Espionage Act under Attorney General Eric Holder than under all his predecessors combined.

oyarde
01-26-2013, 04:10 PM
I have never meet this guy , but he worked @ the CIA over 20 years ....

Occam's Banana
01-26-2013, 05:06 PM
Got to agree with Cenk on this one ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hBoeUZ_3dc


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hBoeUZ_3dc

HOLLYWOOD
01-26-2013, 05:19 PM
US GOVERNMENT: "You will be charged with Felonies, Prosecuted, and Imprisoned, IF you reveal the US GOVERNMENT is committing; Torture, Felonies, and War Crimes."

PS: Oh, what happen to all those video tapes of the CIA/Proxy Psychos tortuning prisons and INNOCENT suspects? That's correct, they destroyed the evidence. More Felonies committed to hide the initial Felonies invented, authorized, and implemented.

Tyranny of Hypocrisy... too bad the gov & fascist media have created a divide in the people to blame "The Other's Party" nonsense.

oyarde
01-26-2013, 05:27 PM
US GOVERNMENT: "You will be charged with Felonies, Prosecuted, and Imprisoned, IF you reveal the US GOVERNMENT is committing; Torture, Felonies, and War Crimes."

PS: Oh, what happen to all those video tapes of the CIA/Proxy Psychos tortuning prisons and INNOCENT suspects? That's correct, they destroyed the evidence. More Felonies committed to hide the initial Felonies invented, authorized, and implemented.

Tyranny of Hypocrisy... too bad the gov & fascist media have created a divide in the people to blame "The Other's Party" nonsense.
Yeah and you work for them for over 20 yr.'s blowing tax money and get 30 months for breaking a rule
I am a bit short on sympathy today.

erowe1
01-26-2013, 05:30 PM
Has the name he leaked ever been made public?

PattyFromTexas
01-26-2013, 08:05 PM
He did bad things, had second thoughts, then betrayed the people he worked with, no one likes him, and no one trusts him, and now he's going to prison. Likely the ONLY one, and the bad guys who authorized it and initiated it get promoted. If that's not enough to discourage anyone else who might have second thoughts...