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Title: CIA issues 'criminal referral' on waterboarding whistleblower
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Raw Story
URL Source: http://rawstory.com/news/2007/CIA_t ... aks_by_waterboarding_1221.html
Published: Dec 21, 2007
Author: David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Post Date: 2007-12-21 11:57:44 by robin
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Filed by David Edwards and Muriel Kane Last week, a former CIA officer publicly described the waterboarding of suspected al-Qaeda member Abu Zubaydah to ABC News. As reported by RAW STORY (with video), John Kiriakou, who led the squad which captured the suspected terrorist, told ABC's Brian Ross that although he did not witness the waterboarding himself, fellow agents told him about it and said it broke Abu Zubaydah's resistance in less than a minute. CNN's John Roberts noted that "there were a lot of people wondering ... whether or not he was actually disclosing state secrets" in that interview. Now the CIA has sent a "criminal referral" to the Justice Department to investigate whether Kiriakou did reveal classified information. However, according to CNN, these referrals rarely lead to criminal charges and it is not yet clear whether there has been any violation. Kiriakou is not commenting on the matter. His lawyer, Mark Zaid, said that neither he nor his client has received notice of the investigation, adding, "I'm not aware that he said anything that was unlawful." Zaid, a specialist in secrecy and national security issues, has frequently represented government whistleblowers in the past. In related news, Judge Henry Kennedy is holding a hearing today on whether the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes by the Justice Department ignored his orders in a lawsuit brought by detainees at Guantanamo Bay. The Justice Department has expressed concerns that this court procedure could complicate its ongoing investigations. CIA issues 'criminal referral' on waterboarding whistleblower
12/21/2007 @ 7:42 am
This video is from CNN's American Morning, broadcast on December 21, 2007.
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This is after people were saying on the Web for a few days that the fact that no action was being taken against Kiriakou just went to show that he was carrying water for the administration. Let's see if anything comes of this criminal referral.
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