FBI investigates former CIA officer (Kiriakou) over waterboarding interviews

[babylonsister]

FBI investigates former CIA officer over waterboarding interviews
By Jonathan S. Landay | McClatchy Newspapers

* Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007



WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice is investigating whether a former intelligence officer illegally disclosed classified information in interviews he gave on how the CIA interrogated a suspected senior al Qaida member.

In interviews with ABC News and The Washington Post earlier this month, former CIA officer John Kiriakou gave detailed descriptions of how a detainee known as Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded. The procedure produces the sensation of drowning and is widely considered a form of torture, which is illegal under U.S. and international laws.

The interviews were the first public confirmation that Zubaydah, a Palestinian who allegedly helped finance the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, had been subjected to the technique while in secret CIA custody. The CIA surrendered Zubaydah to the U.S. military in September 2006, and he's now being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The department opened the criminal probe of Kiriakou after receiving a "criminal referral" from the CIA, according to officials familiar with the process. The officials requested anonymity because criminal referrals aren't made public.

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[Jacobin]

1. What's that mafia code of silence called again?

[babylonsister]

2. Omerta. You're probably right. nt

[lovuian]

3. this will be exactly like ABU Ghahib get the underlings

like Scooter and others while the ones who ordered it walk away winking

[peacetalksforall]

4. DOJ investigating. So the WH? is after the intel person? Is a big deal

going to made around him in the war against the CIA by the WH (meaning also DOD/DIA)? Is it a form of deflection and a way to hide their dirty little secrets?

I pray that there is no torture going on anywhere is all our secret prisons? Oh that this campaign would end? Where are the peacemakers?

We are not at war. We are living another day in the campaign against us and other people by the corporations and their barons. Their army is the people at the top of our government plus their loyalists and operatives - plus our unknowing kids and their families as well as their counterparts - the well paid shadow army run by the State Dept.

[Supersedeas]

5. the kubuki dance continues