Courtesy of the Washingtonian:
In 2007, 15-year CIA veteran John Kiriakou told an
ABC News reporter that his agency had waterboarded an Al Qaeda detainee, Abu
Zubaydah, whom Kiriakou was involved in capturing in 2002. His revelation
confirmed to the American public the CIA’s torture program and helped spur a
years-long Senate investigation and a damning, 6,000-page report, the
abstract of which was released this week.
Kiriakou
pleaded guilty in 2012 to disclosing classified information, including the
name of a fellow CIA operative, to a New York Times reporter. In early 2013,
he reported to the a federal prison in Loretto, Pennsylvania, to begin
serving a 30-month sentence. Kiriakou, along with supporters that include
his congressman, Virginia Democrat Jim Moran, says the real point of his
prosecution was to silence him and others from talking about torture.
To
be clear, torturing detainees, many of who had no intelligence to share, is
not an offense requiring imprisonment,
Ordering that practice, even
though America is morally and legally against such practices, is not an
offense requiring imprisonment.
However blowing the whistle on
these illegal and immoral activities IS an offense requiring imprisonment.
Just
so we are clear.
Just what exactly have we become?
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