Served twenty eight months (three months in home confinement)
Spouse
Heather Katherine Kiriakou
(before 2018)
[1]
Children
5
Website
Column at Consortium
John Chris Kiriakou (born August 9, 1964) is an American author, journalist and former intelligence officer. Kiriakou is a columnist with Reader Supported News[2] and co-host of Political Misfits on Sputnik Radio.[3]
He was formerly an analyst and case officer for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, counterterrorism and a consultant for ABC News.[4][5][6] He was the first U.S. government official to confirm in December 2007 that waterboarding was used to interrogate al-Qaeda prisoners, which he described as torture.[7][8] Kiriakou is a founding member of the organization Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.
In 2012, Kiriakou became the only CIA officer to be convicted for exposing the CIA's enhanced interrogation program, having passed classified information to a reporter.[9] He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 30 months in prison.[10]
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^Lester, Caroline (May 14, 2018). "The CIA Spy Who Became a Russian Propagandist". The New Republic. Retrieved May 21, 2019.
^"Political Misfits – Radio Sputnik". Apple Podcasts. Archived from the original on January 29, 2022. Retrieved January 29, 2022.
^"John Kiriakou". Huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved January 29, 2012.
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Jeff Stein (January 26, 2010). "CIA Man Retracts Claim on Waterboarding". Foreign Policy. Archived from the original on 2010-03-07. Well, it's official now: John Kiriakou, the former CIA operative who affirmed claims that waterboarding quickly unloosed the tongues of hard-core terrorists, says he didn't know what he was talking about.
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"Colbert: Waterboard Kiriakou, CIA Faker". Politifi. 2010-02-06. Archived from the original on 2022-01-26. John Kiriakou, the former CIA employee whose claims about waterboarding became an oft-cited defense of the torture practice, got the "Colbert Report" treatment this week.
^Warrick, Joby; Eggen, Dan (11 December 2007). "Waterboarding Recounted". The Washington Post.
^Davis, Mark (12 December 2007). "His second guess is wrong". The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved April 20, 2009.
^Shane, Scott (January 5, 2013). "Ex-Officer Is First From C.I.A. to Face Prison for a Leak". The New York Times. Retrieved January 6, 2013.
^"Ex-CIA officer Kiriakou "made peace" with leak decision". BBC News. February 28, 2013.
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