On Jan. 25, CIA agent John Kiriakou will be sentenced to 30 months in prison as part of a plea deal in which he admitted violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act by e-mailing the name of a covert C.I.A. officer to a freelance reporter, who did not publish it. The law was passed in 1982, aimed at radical publications that deliberately sought to out undercover agents, exposing their secret work and endangering their lives. However, John Kiriakou is not associated with radical publications and, in fact, is a CIA hero. I realize that “zero tolerance” is needed in this era of intelligence leaks, but sometimes “0 tolerance = 0 intelligence”. How can such a hero turn on his country, as the government charges? Prosecutors admitted that they can’t prove his error was to harm America…or that it did. Please sign the Petition to Urge President Obama To Grant Kiriakou A Pardon“. Why? Because pardons are granted when individuals have demonstrated that they have fulfilled their debt to society or at least are considered to be deserving of one. I offer this article I wrote free to readers. Also, please sign the petition in the upper right-hand margin of the site. There is also a POLL to vote on if you believe he shouldn’t be pardoned. I will share the result here.  www.osintda ily.blogspot.com/201 3/01/cia-hero-agent- sentenced-to-prison. html

Kiriakou must be wrong. One of those agents, according to a post published this week on Cryptocomb, is Thomas Donahue Fletcher, a Virginia resident in his 60s. Thomas Donahue Fletcher is a nice lovable Anglo-Irish name.

Makes sense to me in this Orwellian world. When someone see's a crime being commited you arrest the person witnessing the crime, not the criminal.

If you see someone raping a woman, you go to jail if you report it and idenitfy the rapist. This is how governments work....

Isn't this just so American! The judge doesn't care one hoot that it was the original enablers of torture who have put the country in danger, if that is indeed true. No she believes it is a person who acknowledged the criminal act that is responsible. How stupid are US judges anyway? Do they all need brain transplants?

When did the Congress declare war?

What the author of this article, some readers and the USA Gov. doesn't know nor apparently want you to know IS:

You cannot legally charge ANYONE with a crime for complaining, exposing a felony crime is taking place nor doing what they can to make certain the alleged felony criminal is stopped, charged and apprehended.

While the USA Gov. is falsely spewing it is illegal to 'out' a CIA official, it is double indemnity which is illegal for the whistle-blower to remain quiet and not do what he could to blow the whistle on a obvious felony crime, in fact a war crime which world courts have upheld against G.W. Bush, Tony Blair, Dick Cheney among other high ranking officials. There is no 'OK' for a legal War Crime, this whistle-blower would have been charged with a felony if he didn't speak up, NOW the USA Gov. is attempting to spew his speaking up is 'illegal'.

Al l just world courts would find the whistleblower innocent of any wrong doing.

The going after inside WhistleBlowers is a dangerous canary in a coal mine signal of PoliceState actions. These kind of charges have been a hallmark of the Obama-Biden White House as they have greatly increased the charges and DOJ going after inside WhistleBlowers far and above the previous Bush-Cheney White House administration. Such indicates a increasing Zionist corruption of the USA Dept. of Justice spreading out to include law enforcement, FBI, CIA, NSA and Federal Judges touting the line of corruption or being pushed out of Federal service/employment.

In these times of high unemployment and threats by DOJ to place negative evaluations on any Federal employee who doesn't comply to the racist, bigoted, illegal and unconstitutional Zionist corruption of the USA DOJ, many obviously don't want nor chose that route. The Israeli/Obama White House is also obviously using the corrupt Zionist MoneyChanger created Global Recession to force compliance of it's thugs and goons under the unspoken threat of long term unemployment.

First, what "r a feibel (unregistered)" has written here about Tulmud Law is utter sewage. US Law and most all laws of the Western World are based on Roman Law and the Civil Codes are even more defined and rooted in Admiralty and Maritime Law...our World is in fact ruled by Admiralty Law and this is part of the conflict between Muslims and the rest of the world.

Next and on the subject of this story. Imagine a world where what people did to other people was always subject to public scrutiny, that no government had the right to hide their deeds.  My guess is Torturers like this man would not live for long but then, if what people did in secret were nt protected and hidden, how many politicans would not now be subject to prison and even leathal injection.
 

Jail....he should be given an AWARD....US is one messed up place!

The USA is at war ,at no time has any official ,in any country at war been allowedto snitch on his/her own country without reprisals.A lot of traitors are killed before they can talk.Thats the way it as always been,in action or in politics.I don't know much about the command structure in the USA but I am sure that there were many people this guy could have talked to but obviously didn't.If he did,then,no doubt we shall hear from the recipient.I suspect that there is an awful lot one governmentdepartment does not know about the other.In the case of Assange,he was not an american citizen,he could be classed as the enemy,and has been,but in no way should the states feel it legal to hold him as a traitoror to order around other countries to extradite him,involving them in spurious chargesjust to have him kidnapped

Well if we consider that torture is a crime by the law
If we considere that no one is above the law
If we considere that Nuremberg open a breach in "I just folow the order"
Then this Gentleman has to report the illegal action it has been asked to commit.
In reality it's just show that american people are back to the midle age !

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. 

Dr. Mengele (unregistered) wrote in #15 Boom_boom_ou t_go_the_lights (unregistered) wrote in #7 There is not a single nation on earth that would allow a soldier, or government employee with a security clearance, to walk free from prosecution after divulging classified information. PERIOD. There were avenues he could have taken, other than publically leaking classified info, that he did not pursue. If he lived ANYWHERE in the ME he'd already be dead, or in Russia he would have been jailed. I myself once held a clearance, and it was VERY obvious what the rules were. Speaking to ANY media concerning ANY classified info was definitely NOT OKAY. This feller is going to jail, and he's got it coming, pure and simple.     � �         � �         � �         � �         � �         � �         � �         � �    Finally, Nuremberg trials were and are illegal. All executed should be pardoned and their families compensated. .... .................... .................... .................... ..........I like how you guys read the parts of my post you like and skip the ones you don't. Did you catch the sentence "There were avenues he could have taken, other than publically leaking classified info, that he did not pursue." That's why he's now facing a trial. He was fully aware of government watchdog groups and committees specifically created for just such things, and yet he chose to speak with the press. The terms of a clearance are fairly simple to understand. He screwedthepooch.

This story more than anything else demonstrates just how depraved the United States has become.  You can commit a heinous crime like this and go free, but don't you dare report it!  Don't you dare report it!

And I see the shills are already here trying to spin this... human decency demands that when a crime like this is committed, the effort to hide it behind "national security" and claim privilege for "classified information" goes out the window.  You can't "classify" criminal behavior.

Any idiot should be able to understand why this must be.

Boom_boom_out_go_the _lights (unregistered) wrote in #7
There is not a single nation on earth that would allow a soldier, or government employee with a security clearance, to walk free from prosecution after divulging classified information. PERIOD. There were avenues he could have taken, other than publically leaking classified info, that he did not pursue. If he lived ANYWHERE in the ME he'd already be dead, or in Russia he would have been jailed. I myself once held a clearance, and it was VERY obvious what the rules were. Speaking to ANY media concerning ANY classified info was definitely NOT OKAY. This feller is going to jail, and he's got it coming, pure and simple.     � �         � �         � �         � �         � �         � �         � �         � �   
Finally, Nuremberg trials were and are illegal. All executed should be pardoned and their families compensated.

Truth is treason in the Empire of Lies.

Boom_boom_out_go_the _lights (unregistered) wrote in #7 "There is not a single nation on earth that would allow a soldier, or government employee with a security clearance, to walk free from prosecution after divulging classified information. PERIOD. There were avenues he could have taken, other than publically leaking classified info, that he did not pursue. If he lived ANYWHERE in the ME he'd already be dead, or in Russia he would have been jailed. I myself once held a clearance, and it was VERY obvious what the rules were. Speaking to ANY media concerning ANY classified info was definitely NOT OKAY. This feller is going to jail, and he's got it coming, pure and simple." And that's the problem. Covering up wrongs and atrocities is the jail-worthy offense. Trying to stop wrongs and atrocities is what makes a man a hero. If you don't know that as a basic, fundamental fact of life, then you do not deserve your life. Live in peace.

We all know that USA has killed hundred and thousand of people in the world and still killing the innocent women and children in the name of  democracy while supporting their ally dictators, don't forget USA is the only country who used nuke against other country, It is the most hated nation on the earth. Now its time for the civilized world to come together and stop the evil in order to save some innocent life.