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5 Apr 2012, 1:44 pm by Robert Chesney
John Kiriakou was previously arrested, and charged via criminal complaint, on grounds relating to disclosure of classified information. [read post]
19 Jul 2012, 5:08 pm by Wells Bennett
Last week, security officials unsealed John Kiriakou’s consolidated reply - in which the defendant takes on the government’s opposition to his motion for a bill of particulars, and his motion to dismiss on selective/vindictive prosecution as well as vagueness and overbreadth grounds. [read post]
10 Aug 2012, 10:58 am by Wells Bennett
  On Wednesday, Judge Leonie Brinkema denied John Kiriakou’s motion to dismiss certain counts against him on vagueness and overbreadth grounds. [read post]
24 Oct 2012, 8:43 am by floridacriminaldefenselawyerblog-1
John Kiriakou, a former CIA officer, has pleaded guilty to revealing classified information to reporters, the identity of a covert intelligence officer. [read post]
6 Apr 2012, 9:55 am by Glenn Reynolds
John Kiriakou, a former CIA officer from 1999 to 2004, was indicted on Thursday for allegedly disclosing classified information to journalists.” [read post]
20 Jul 2012, 1:17 pm by Wells Bennett
District Judge Leonie Brinkema denied ex-CIA officer John Kiriakou’s request for more detail about the government’s allegations against him, while preserving his ability to revisit issues related to that request later; rejected his claim of selective prosecution out of hand; and took his third and final request— to have the case’s key charges thrown out on constitutional grounds—under advisement. [read post]
26 Jan 2012, 8:04 am by Lovechilde
The prosecution of torture whistleblower John Kiriakou criminalizes the revelation of illegality, and decriminalizes the torture. -- Daniel Ellsberg John Kiriakou, the CIA's former director of counterterrorism operations in Pakistan, has been charged with four felony counts for having allegedly disclosed classified information to reporters about the CIA’s interrogation program. [read post]
23 Jan 2012, 11:50 am by Jeralyn
Former CIA officer John Kiriakou has been charged in federal court in Virginia with leaking information, perhaps pertaining to waterboarding, the capture of Abu Zubaydah and the interrogation of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. [read post]
11 Dec 2007, 12:17 am
ABC reports:In the first public comment by any CIA officer involved in handling high-value al Qaeda targets, John Kiriakou, now retired, said the technique broke [Abu] Zubaydah in less than 35 seconds.... [read post]
27 Jan 2010, 4:35 pm
For me, the most interesting thing about John Kiriakou's offhand acknowledgment that his pants are on fire (about the effectiveness of waterboarding) is that evidently ABC--the network that ran with Kiriakou's fantasy allegations in the first place--has known that it was a dog's breakfast for a long time. [read post]
6 Apr 2012, 12:18 pm by Owen Dunn
The Associated Press reported yesterday that a former CIA officer, John Kiriakou, is being charged with leaking classified information after publicly expressing concerns over the use of torture during interrogations. [read post]
25 Jan 2013, 11:16 am by Jeralyn
A federal judge in Virginia has accepted the plea agreement of former CIA agent John Kiriakou and sentenced him to 30 months in prison for leaking the name of a CIA operative who participated in the... [[ This is a content summary only. [read post]
23 Jan 2012, 1:29 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
(Though it’s worth noting that Kiriakou isn’t anti-torture himself.) [read post]
11 Dec 2007, 12:17 pm
John Kiriakou confirmed the waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah, and the fact that the White House authorized such crimes, even though such information is "highly classified. [read post]
14 Jul 2009, 4:31 am
John Kiriakou, who was part of the CIA team that captured Zubaydah in Pakistan, said that the detainee was subject to the [read post]
11 Dec 2007, 2:50 am
Retired agent John Kiriakou, in an ABC News interview [ABC News video; PDF transcript part 1 & part 2], confirmed the use of waterboarding [read post]
12 Dec 2007, 8:15 am
Comes now former CIA Agent John Kiriakou to say that: (1) the waterboarding of the previously tight-lipped Abu Zubayda led him to give up Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and otherwise inform the govt about the operations of al Qaeda; (2) the capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other use of the info obtained from Zubayda thus saved the lives of persons who otherwise might/would have perished in terrorist attacks; but (3) the U.S. should not engage in further waterboarding going forward… [read post]