U.S. authorities arrested a former CIA intelligence officer for leaking classified information to journalists. That information concerning the identity of an agent who was on duty and details about the arrest of a suspected terrorist, Abu Zubaydah. @ http://solutions-rv.blogspot.com/
According to news agency Reuters, the arrests were announced by the U.S. Justice Department in Washington, DC, on Monday. The man arrested was John Kiriakou. Now aged 47, Kiriakou had worked for the CIA from 1990 to 2004 as an intelligence officer.
Kiriakou also worked as senior staff in the office of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2009 until May 2011. Most recently, he wrote a book called "The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA's War on Terror."
He is accused of leaking classified information to a journalist in 2008. The information in question is the identity of a CIA officer who was running a secret task to arrest terrorist suspects. The suspects then taken to the US-run detention and interrogation.
Kiriakou also accused of leaking the identity of a CIA officer told three other reporters. The officer is involved in the arrest and interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, who was suspected as a field commander of al-Qaeda terrorist group. He was arrested in Pakistan in March 2002.
Kiriakou ensnare cases that appear after the names of CIA officers were included in the report of the defense lawyers lawsuit-related cases of suspected terrorists held in U.S. military facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
In fact, U.S. authorities claimed to never give out information regarding the identity of CIA officer who was assigned to the team of lawyers. However, the name of one of the officers also appeared in an article in The New York Times in 2008.
Kiriakou also leads to suspicion. According to the Department of Justice, one of the journalists that Kiriakou helped provide information about the identity of CIA officer told an investigator from the team of lawyers for terror suspects.
Kiriakou, through his lawyer, denied the allegations. However, the CIA director, David Petraeus, said the company is very concerned to continue to protect the identity of all officers.
"Disclosure of secrets that could endanger the lives of officers is concerned," said Petraeus. Meanwhile, the status of prisoners of Kiriakou after a judge approved bail of U.S. $ 250,000. Status that makes Kiriakou forbidden to leave Washington DC.
