Quantum Windbag
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Not against one of the water boarders, he is prosecuting the guy who told us it was going on. I don't know about anyone else, but it makes me wonder if he actually stopped the water boarding like he claims.
The Truth About the Espionage Act Prosecution Against Whistleblower John Kiriakou - Government Accountability Project
They told me if I didn't vote for Obama that this would happen...
It's outrageous that John Kiriakou, a whistleblower, is the ONLY INDIVIDUAL TO BE PROSECUTED IN RELATION TO THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S TORTURE PROGRAM.
The interrogators who tortured prisoners, the officials who gave the orders, the attorneys who authored the torture memos, and the CIA agents who destroyed the interrogation tapes have not been held professionally accountable, much less charged with crimes. But John Kiriakou is facing decades in prison for helping expose torture.
The fact that national security and intelligence officials have become the exception to the Obama administration's mantra of "looking forward, not backward" and Bush-era lawbreaking sets a dangerous precedent: if you torture a prisoner, you will not be held criminally liable, but if you blow the whistle on torture, you risk criminal prosecution under the Espionage Act.
So what's the back-story here? In the government's own words:
The charges result from an investigation that was triggered by a classified defense filing [by attorneys representing Guantanamo detainees], which contained classified information the defense had not been given through official government channels, and in part, by the discovery . . . of photographs of certain government employees and contractors [alleged torturers] in the materials of high-value detainees.
The Truth About the Espionage Act Prosecution Against Whistleblower John Kiriakou - Government Accountability Project
They told me if I didn't vote for Obama that this would happen...