Former
CIA agent John Kiriakou speaks out just days after he was sentenced to 30 months in prison, becoming the first
CIA
official to face jail time for any reason relating to the U.S. torture
program. Under a plea deal, Kiriakou admitted to a single count of
violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act by revealing the
identity of a covert officer to a freelance reporter, who did not
publish it. Supporters say Kiriakou is being unfairly targeted for
having been the first
CIA official to publicly
confirm and detail the Bush administration’s use of waterboarding.
Kiriakou joins us to discuss his story from Washington, D.C., along with
his attorney, Jesselyn Radack, director of National Security &
Human Rights at the Government Accountability Project. "This ... was not
a case about leaking; this was a case about torture. And I believe I’m
going to prison because I blew the whistle on torture," Kiriakou says.
"My oath was to the Constitution. … And to me, torture is
unconstitutional."
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Source: Democracy Now!
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