Salon.com > RDI http://www.salon.com Sun, 19 May 2013 19:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Ex-CIA officer jailed for two years for leaking torture chief’s name http://www.salon.com/2012/10/23/ex_cia_officer_jailed_for_two_years_for_leaking_torture_chiefs_name/ http://www.salon.com/2012/10/23/ex_cia_officer_jailed_for_two_years_for_leaking_torture_chiefs_name/#comments Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:01:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13050025 Former CIA officer John Kiriakou pleaded guilty Tuesday to leaking to a reporter the identity of a "covert CIA officer." Kiriakou, who blew the whistle on the agency's program of extraordinary rendition and the use of waterboarding, will serve two and a half years in prison, but was only charged for revealing the identity of interrogation program chief Thomas Donahue Fletcher.

Based on Kiriakou's guilty plea, the prosecution dropped other charges including those filed under the Espionage Act. Kiriakou, 48, worked as a CIA operative during George W. Bush's first presidential term and took part in operations to capture al-Qaida suspects in Pakistan. In 2007 he spoke to ABC, revealing information about his former agency's Rendition, Detention, Interrogation (RDI) program.

The ex-agent originally faced four charges including leaking the name of the RDI program chief and the role of another CIA employee to a journalist and "two counts of violating the Espionage Act for allegedly illegally disclosing national defense information to individuals not authorized to receive it," the January FBI report on the case noted.

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