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John
Kiriakou:
John
Kiriakou is a former CIA officer, former senior investigator for the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and former counterterrorism
consultant for ABC News.
In
2002, Kiriakou became the chief of counterterrorism operations in
Pakistan, where he led a CIA team in the March 2002 raid and capture
of Abu Zubaydah, then thought to be al-Qaeda's third-ranking
official.
Following
Abu Zubaydah's capture, Kiriakou became Executive Assistant to the
CIA's Deputy Director for Operations, where he served as the Director
of Central Intelligence's principal Iraq briefer.
Kiriakou
left the CIA in March 2004. He later served as a senior investigator
on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and as senior intelligence
advisor to Committee Chairman Senator John Kerry. Kiriakou also
authored a bestselling book, "The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life
in the CIA's War on Terror," and worked as an intelligence
consultant for ABC News.
Throughout
his career, Kiriakou received 12 CIA Exceptional Performance Awards,
the CIA's Sustained Superior Performance Award, the Counterterrorism
Service Medal, and the State Department's Meritorious Honor Award.
In
2007, Kiriakou appeared on ABC News, during which he became the first
CIA officer to confirm that the CIA waterboarded detainees, and he
labeled waterboarding as “torture.” Kiriakou's interview revealed
that this practice was official U.S. policy approved at the highest
levels of the government.
The
government began investigating Kiriakou immediately after his media
appearance. Five years later, he was charged with multiple felonies
resulting from his whistleblowing. He became the sixth whistleblower
indicted by the Obama administration under the Espionage Act - a law
designed to punish spies.
Eventually,
in order to avoid a trial that could have resulted in separation from
his wife and five children for up to 45 years, he opted to plead
guilty to one count of a reduced charge in exchange for a 30-month
sentence.
In
2012 Kiriakou was honored with the Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic
Courage, an award given to individuals who “advance truth and
justice despite the personal risk it creates.” Two days prior to
sentencing, he was honored by inclusion of his portrait in artist
Robert Shetterly's series "Americans Who Tell the Truth,"
which features notable truth-tellers throughout American history.
Kiriakou
reported to federal prison in Loretto, Pennsylvania on February 28,
2013 to begin serving his sentence, where he continued to speak out
in a series of "Letters from Loretto," including his first,
which provided a stunning portrait of prison life. In November 2013,
the Peace and Justice Center of Sonoma County, California honored
Kiriakou as its "Peacemaker of the Year." He was awarded
the prestigious PEN First Amendment Award from the PEN Center USA in
August 2015.
He
was released from prison in February 2015.
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