GAP National Security & Human Rights Director Jesselyn Radack was featured on NPR’s Morning Edition to talk about today’s arraignment of former CIA agent John Kiriakou, where he is expected to plead not guilty. Kiriakou was the sixth intelligence whistleblower to be charged under the Espionage Act by the Obama administration.
Key Quote: "This is really all about politics and has little to do with justice," says Jesselyn Radack, who works on security and human rights for the Government Accountability Project.
Radack says the pursuit of Kiriakou has more to do with his public comments about waterboarding, or simulated drowning of terrorism suspects, than any real damage he did to national security.
Radack says, "Nobody ... from the CIA who did the torture, no one who ordered the torture, none of the lawyers who authorized the torture and none of the people who destroyed the videotapes of it have been prosecuted.”
And a handful of random links: www.washingtonpost.com/national/former-cia-officer-indicted-on-charges-
of-leaking-classified-information-to-journalists/2012/04/05/gIQAqyl7xS_story.html,
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