Notice the spin? Kiriakou, who REVEALED THE US WAS TORTURING PRISONERS, is mentioned here only as having revealed a CIA operative's name. His sentence is obviously retribution for revealing the torture, the only government official to be imprisoned for the torture scandal is the man who revealed it was happening. God have mercy on the United States of America, she is at her darkest hour. But that doesn't mean the wheel of fortune won't drop lower.
Honestly, people need to grow up in this country. Yes, certain methods of extracting vital information from people that want to harm our citizens will, and always has been, unpleasent in nature. It's the cold hard truth. It is, unfortunatly, neccessary as well. Do you think that potential terrorists are just going to hand over the info we need to prevent catastrophies like 9/11 without a brutally persuasive reason? If so, go back to sucking on your binkie and playing with building blocks. Forget about love and respect when you've got a gun to your head, people! Other entities, whether they be violent militias or entire nations, will always attempt to bring us down. That isn't going to stop because we start treating them more humanely. Protect your freedoms by any means necessary, or you will soon find yourselves without them.
Torture and violence beget only torture and violence. The resentments we have sown on behalf of the neo-con zionists and Israel will hang over us a long time. As for the "info we need to prevent catastrophies like 9/11"? Israel, and probably US government officials had advanced knowledge of 9/11 and very likely elements within Israel assisted the perpetrators with intelligence. Grow up yourself, it's called a false flag attack and Machiavelli's question of how many of your own are you willing to sacrifice to meet your goals. You haven't a clue how fascist you and your nation have become.
Protect your freedoms by any means necessary, or you will soon find yourselves without them? Have you any idea how socipathic and ignorant that advice its? When all you have is a great big hammer (metaphor for totalitarian security state) EVERYTHING looks like a hammer. Pretty soon you yourself are destroying your own cherished "freedoms". BTW, the US wasn't founded upon freedom. It was founded upon equality. Freedom was one of the inalienable rights derived from a priori equality.
So the judge would give him more time if she could. Too bad so sad that she couldn't. Sometimes you wonder how these vengeful creatures get into positions of judicial power. Maybe it's the deadlier than the male syndrome.
Surely you are not talking about plame the "covert" officer that had not left the states in over 6 years and had her own parking spot at Langley. That also made campaign contributions to Al Gore?
As a matter of fact I am talking about Valerie Plame. She wasn't in much danger but contacts she working for her overseas certainly were. But the really bad part is that POTUS Cheney outed her simply so HE could wage his money making war in Iraq that cost over 100,000 lives (over 4000 American) countless thousands of wounded and well over 1 TRILLION dollars of BORROWED money that we have to pay back.
And don't forget Al Gore (whom I don't think much of either) actually enlisted, fought and was wounded while Cheney took 5 deferments and JUNIOR's Daddy got him into the Texas ANG which never did and never would have been assigned to Vietnam.
Notice the article says that according to court papers, the "investigation of Kiriakou began in 2009 when authorities became alarmed after discovering that detainees at Guantanamo Bay possessed photographs of CIA and FBI personnel who had interrogated them."
It doesn't say that Kirakou had anything to do with giving detainees photographs of CIA agents. In fact he was convicted of mentioning only one CIA name in passing to a reporter.
Whether Kirakou should have said a CIA officers's name is an issue. But so much of this case reeks of a government crackdown against anyone that protests against waterboarding. The above implication that Kirakou had given pictures of CIA agents, and the emphasis on the accusation that Kirakou only wanted to achieve notoriety, are indications that Kirakou is being smeared by the government.
As many other commenters have noted, Bush White House aides Scooter Libby, Karl Rove, Air Fleischer, and Richard Armitage, all made a far more deliberate and vicious leak of a CIA officer's name to reporters. They did this pretty much just to get back at her husband for writing a true article that said Bush was wrong. Nothing ever happened to them (excepting Libby who was actually convicted for lying to the Grand Jury, not leaking the CIA agent's name).
There really is no equal justice under law anymore.
If you commit torture, or authorize it, no problem. Heaven help you if you tell the American people about torture... Unfortunately, Kiriakou said in 2007 that the waterboarding was "probably necessary." Torture is NEVER necessary. It is ALWAYS wrong... The only thing it is effective at is coercing false confessions.
Wait..what..."Abu Zubaydah, who was waterboarded by government interrogators, revealed information that exposed Khalid Sheikh Mohamed as the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks." I thought Osama Bin Laden was the mastermind. Has our government gotten it's lies mixed up??? Hillary help!!!
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God have mercy on the United States of America, she is at her darkest hour. But that doesn't mean the wheel of fortune won't drop lower.
As for the "info we need to prevent catastrophies like 9/11"? Israel, and probably US government officials had advanced knowledge of 9/11 and very likely elements within Israel assisted the perpetrators with intelligence. Grow up yourself, it's called a false flag attack and Machiavelli's question of how many of your own are you willing to sacrifice to meet your goals. You haven't a clue how fascist you and your nation have become.
Have you any idea how socipathic and ignorant that advice its? When all you have is a great big hammer (metaphor for totalitarian security state) EVERYTHING looks like a hammer. Pretty soon you yourself are destroying your own cherished "freedoms". BTW, the US wasn't founded upon freedom. It was founded upon equality. Freedom was one of the inalienable rights derived from a priori equality.
And don't forget Al Gore (whom I don't think much of either) actually enlisted, fought and was wounded while Cheney took 5 deferments and JUNIOR's Daddy got him into the Texas ANG which never did and never would have been assigned to Vietnam.
What is wrong with any government worker making any contributions to any politician as long as it doesn't break any laws (spirit and letter)?
Ha!!
It doesn't say that Kirakou had anything to do with giving detainees photographs of CIA agents. In fact he was convicted of mentioning only one CIA name in passing to a reporter.
Whether Kirakou should have said a CIA officers's name is an issue. But so much of this case reeks of a government crackdown against anyone that protests against waterboarding. The above implication that Kirakou had given pictures of CIA agents, and the emphasis on the accusation that Kirakou only wanted to achieve notoriety, are indications that Kirakou is being smeared by the government.
As many other commenters have noted, Bush White House aides Scooter Libby, Karl Rove, Air Fleischer, and Richard Armitage, all made a far more deliberate and vicious leak of a CIA officer's name to reporters. They did this pretty much just to get back at her husband for writing a true article that said Bush was wrong. Nothing ever happened to them (excepting Libby who was actually convicted for lying to the Grand Jury, not leaking the CIA agent's name).
There really is no equal justice under law anymore.
Unfortunately, Kiriakou said in 2007 that the waterboarding was "probably necessary."
Torture is NEVER necessary. It is ALWAYS wrong... The only thing it is effective at is coercing false confessions.