{"id":33821,"date":"2013-01-27T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T10:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33821"},"modified":"2013-01-27T10:32:56","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T14:32:56","slug":"kiriakou-gets-30-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33821","title":{"rendered":"Kiriakou Gets 30 Months"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Kiriakou, ex-CIA employee, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison.\u00a0 His crime?\u00a0 Violation of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act (IIPA)<\/a>.\u00a0 This act was passed in reaction to the outing of Athens CIA Station Chief Richard Welch in 1975 – and whose exposure is believed to have contributed to his murder later that year.<\/p>\n

Kiriakou was the first individual ever convicted for violating the IIPA.\u00a0 Although allegations were made against various parties regarding the Plame non-outing, no one was convicted of an IIPA violation in that case.\u00a0 (Libby\u2019s conviction in conjunction with the Plame investigation was not<\/span> for a violation of the IIPA or for the disclosure of any classified information.\u00a0 Hell, it appears that if anyone “outed” Plame – who was working openly at CIA HQ at the time of her alleged “outing” – it was her own husband Joe Wilson.\u00a0 While Wilson was writing op-eds and doing the talk show circuit to undercut the Bush administration and curry favor with the Kerry campaign in early and mid 2003, he was apparently also telling pretty much anyone who would listen<\/a> that his wife worked for the CIA for weeks before that fact was publicized by Novak.)<\/em><\/p>\n

However, unlike the Plame case, someone working undercover actually was<\/i> exposed by Kiriakou,\u00a0 Or to be more accurate:\u00a0 it appears a number of persons working covertly for the CIA<\/em> were outed by Kiriakou.\u00a0 He gave the identities of at least 2 CIA agents whose identities were protected under the IIPA to members of the press. Prosecutors say evidence collected during the case indicates Kiriakou likely divulged the identities of \u201cdozens\u201d of personnel working for the agency.<\/p>\n

The sentence of 30 months was agreed to in a plea bargain, in which Kiriakou admitted to identifying one CIA operative whose identity and covert employment by the CIA was covered under the IIPA.\u00a0 Not all persons working for the CIA are covered by the IIPA, but at least some of those individuals exposed by Kiriakou were.<\/p>\n

Why haven\u2019t we heard a great \u201chue and cry\u201d from the media about Kiriakou, like we did virtually nonstop about the Plame non-outing years ago?\u00a0 Well, I can\u2019t say for sure – but I have my own opinion.\u00a0 Kiriakou also made public the details of al Zubaida\u2019s enhanced interrogation, including the fact that he’d been waterboarded.\u00a0 When Kiriakou did that, the political left and media lapped it up like cats drinking milk – just like they did the bogus allegations that Plame was intentionally exposed by the Bush administration.<\/p>\n

Predictably, Kiriakou sought to portray himself as a \u201cwhistleblower\u201d exposing government wrongdoing.\u00a0 While reluctantly accepting the plea bargain, the judge emphatically rejected Kiriakou\u2019s claim to be any kind of whistleblower.\u00a0 Instead, the judge said:\u00a0 \u201cThis is a case of a man who betrayed a solemn trust\u201d and added later that she felt the 30-month sentence in the plea bargain was \u201cway too light\u201d.<\/p>\n

Why would Kiriakou sell out his brothers and sisters still working at the CIA?\u00a0 Like the prosecution, my guess would be cold hard cash.\u00a0 Specifically:\u00a0 he did it to get publicity and increase his chances of getting consulting work.\u00a0 The consulting work would put money in his pocket; both consulting and publicity would help sell the book he was writing about his 14 years with the CIA (1990-2004).\u00a0 Money talks \u2013 so Kiriakou did, too.<\/p>\n

In a perfect world, Kiriakou’s cellmate will be about 6\u20194\u201d, weigh about 230 lbs, and will have lost a buddy on 9\/11 or to the Taliban.\u00a0 IMO the judge was right \u2013 this asshole deserves way<\/em> more than 30 months.<\/p>\n

Hope you enjoy your stay at the crossbar hotel, Johnny-boy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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