Sunday, January 27, 2013

Former CIA operative sentenced to prison for disclosing confidential information

[JURIST] The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia [official website] has sentenced former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] agent John Kiriakou, who was among the first to disclose information to the public about the CIA's use of waterboarding [JURIST report] and other interrogation techniques, to thirty months in prison [judgment, pdf] for intentionally disclosing information identifying a covert agent. Kiriakou was the first person in 27 years to be convicted for violating the Intelligence Identities...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/01/former-cia-operative-sentenced-to-prison-for-disclosing-confidential-information.php

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