John Kiriakou

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John Kiriakou (2015)

John Kiriakou (born August 9, 1964 in Sharon (Pennsylvania) ) is a former American intelligence officer. As an employee of the Central Intelligence Agency, he was involved in the 2002 capture of Abu Subaida in Pakistan and in 2007 made statements to the media about the CIA's torture program that have since been exposed as inaccurate and are considered part of the CIA's obfuscation campaign. Kiriakou was convicted in January 2013 of violating official secrets against the press.

Kiriakou appeared on ABC television in late 2007, when a US public debate about torture of CIA prisoners was taking place , speaking about waterboarding and other practices he specifically termed torture . In the days and weeks that followed, he was a frequent media guest. In 2002 he worked as a CIA analyst in the operation that tracked down al-Qaeda terrorist Abu Subaida in Pakistan. Subaida was detained and tortured in a secret prison in Thailand after being arrested. Kiriakou said on the program that Subaida collapsed after 30 to 35 seconds of waterboarding and then made valuable statements. However, Kiriakou was not involved in the interrogations himself, not even on site, but was in the USA and had his knowledge from official and unofficial reports. He explicitly said that the torture was necessary and had results. On the other hand, he declined to continue the methods because at that time there was no longer any need for such special measures.

His statements were particularly influential in portraying and justifying the torture methods as successful because Kiriakou was the only CIA employee who spoke publicly about the methods. After his media appearances, Kiriakou was initially employed as a national security advisor at ABC, and since spring 2009 he has worked for the US Senate. He was considered a whistleblower by various media .

In January 2012, Kiriakou was charged with disclosing classified information, including the names of undercover CIA employees, to journalists. In October 2012, Kiriakou pleaded guilty to some of the alleged acts in a plea bargain . He was sentenced to 30 months in prison in January 2013.

After various internal reports by the CIA became known since 2009, doubts arose as to the correctness of Kiriakou's statements. When the summary of the Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Programs was finally released at the end of 2014 , it turned out that all of Kiriakou's statements were incorrect. Abu Subaida did not immediately respond to waterboarding, in fact he was tortured using this method 83 times. Nor had he provided any useful information. Kiriakou said he relied on reports from his colleagues and unknowingly made false statements.

In February 2015, Kiriakou was released from custody.

Awards

Kiriakou was honored with the Sam Adams Award in 2016 .

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Web links

Commons : John Kiriakou  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c New York Times: How '07 ABC Interview Tilted a Torture Debate , April 27, 2009
  2. ↑ Arte : Be silent, traitor! ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , December 2014. Documentation about whistleblowers with the participation of Kiriakou @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arte.tv
  3. ^ Former CIA Officer John Kiriakou Indicted for Allegedly Disclosing Classified Information, Including Covert Officer's Identity, to Journalists and Lying to CIA's Publications Board. In: www.fbi.gov. April 5, 2012, archived from the original on July 14, 2014 ; accessed on December 11, 2014 .
  4. ↑ a b the intercept: Prison Dispatches from the War on Terror: Ex-CIA Officer John Kiriakou Speaks , January 19, 2015
  5. ↑ Amy Goodman, Juan González: Exclusive: Freed CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou Says "I Would Do It All Again" to Expose Torture ( English ) In: Democracy Now! . February 9, 2015. Archived from the original on February 13, 2015. Retrieved on February 13, 2015.
  6. ↑ amadamsaward.ch/john-kiriakou , Sam Adams Award - website. Retrieved December 13, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Kiriakou, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American secret service agent
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Sharon, Pennsylvania