Ex-CIA officer pleads guilty to one charge in leak case
From Carol Cratty
A former CIA officer accused of revealing classified information to reporters has pleaded guilty to one of the allegations - that he illegally revealed the identity of a covert intelligence officer.
John Kiriakou, 48, also admitted to other allegations, including that he illegally told reporters the name of a different CIA employee involved in a 2002 operation to capture alleged al Qaeda terrorist Abu Zubaydah, and that he lied to a review board about a book he was writing, the Justice Department said.
But in a deal with prosecutors, Kiriakou pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, only to the charge that he illegally revealed the first intelligence officer's name, the Justice Department said.
Kiriakou and prosecutors agreed to a prison sentence of 30 months. Judge Leonie Brinkema said she accepted the agreement, but sentencing will take place January 25.
The former CIA officer also agreed to give up his pension rights, though his wife still will be eligible to receive it if the attorney general says she has cooperated fully with the case.
Kiriakou, who was an intelligence officer from 1990 to 2004, had faced five charges, for which he could have received up to 45 years in prison.
After leaving court Tuesday, Kiriakou did not talk but stood while his attorney, Robert Trout, described him as a "loyal American who loves his country deeply." Trout indicated that Kiriakou would not have caused any harm on purpose.
An investigation began when lawyers for Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detainees issued a court filing with classified information that the government hadn't provided. A probe found that the defense got the information from a journalist, who got it from Kiriakou, the Justice Department said.
Prosecutors say Kiriakou gave one journalist the name of a covert CIA officer and helped the reporter link him to a classified operation. Separately, Kiriakou told that journalist and a second reporter that a certain CIA analyst was associated with the Abu Zubaydah operation, even though the analyst's involvement was classified, the Justice Department said.
Zubaydah is one of three detainees the CIA later admitted waterboarding during interrogations. A government report revealed the simulated drowning technique was used on him 83 times. Zubaydah has yet to be charged by the U.S. government and is incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay.
Prosecutors also say Kiriakou, who co-wrote the book "The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA's War on Terror," lied to a CIA board that reviewed the book in 2008 before it was published.
According to the indictment, Kiriakou wrote about a classified investigative technique, and then lied to the review board when he told it that the technique was fictionalized. A CIA review board goes over all books and other writings by former or current CIA employees to guard against any disclosure of classified material.
The case "marks an important victory for our agency, for our intelligence community, and for our country," CIA Director David Petraeus said in a statement to CIA employees.
"Oaths do matter, and there are indeed consequences for those who believe they are above the laws that protect our fellow officers and enable American intelligence agencies to operate with the requisite degree of secrecy," Petraeus said.
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The oath for a security clearance should be taken very seriously and those who divulge (knowingly or unknowingly) classified information should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. It is a treasonous act or an act of espionage; perhaps here it is an act of speaking before thinking – nevertheless – the real or potential damage done is significant. He should have honored his oath fully and faithfully.
Isn't waterboarding a CRIME according to International Law signed in Geneva ? Are we much defferent with this Guantanamo than Hitler and Stalin with their camps and Gulags ?
It is strange that the author did not mention Bush and Cheney in revealing the name of Wilson wife, a CIA agent, or was it Carl Rove ? It is not too late. Strange justice. The whole story does not seem to add up. Little guys go to jail, big crooks are running free.
"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way."
— Aristotle
and these are the people that we trust our security to??????
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