Jailed CIA Official Warns Trump: Mueller, Brennan 'Set Out to Ruin People'

[dukkha]

A former CIA officer who was imprisoned for leaking classified information to journalists said he was initially was cleared of charges until Obama-era CIA Director John Brennan got involved.

John Kiriakou said he had "no idea" he was under investigation in 2007 for sharing details of terrorists' interrogations to journalists.

Kiriakou said his story should be relevant to President Donald Trump, who is dealing with the same officials in his Russia probe as Kiriakou did.

"In 2007, the Bush administration investigated me and determined I hadn't committed a crime," he said.

However, Kiriakou said that once President Obama took power in 2009, a series of memos showed that Brennan asked Attorney General Eric Holder to reopen his case.

"The injustice is incredible," he said, adding that Brennan and then-FBI Director Robert Mueller "set out to ruin people" they don't like.

Kiriakou claimed Brennan sent the DOJ a memo asking the department to prosecute the officer for espionage.

The department said it had no evidence of such, but Brennan responded something to the effect of "charge him anyway and make him defend himself," according to Kiriakou.

Mueller, who was involved in the case, is "a man who chooses a person, then looks for a crime to hang on that person," Kiriakou said, adding that Mueller initiated the "John Kiriakou Task Force" to probe him.

Kiriakou claimed that Mueller waited nearly a year until he was forced to declare bankruptcy then dropped most of the charges.

Kiriakou spent 30 months in prison on a related charge, Tucker Carlson said.

"This president... sees injustice," Kiriakou added of Trump.

Carlson said he was incredulous that Brennan, who has been accused of leaking to the press himself, would seek to imprison Kiriakou on the same charge.
http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/05/2...article_footer

[dukkha]

Brennan is a real son of a bitch. this is selective prosecution, just because he can ( thru Mueller).
I heard someplace the memo read something "charge him anyway" when told there was lack of evidence
( he was cleared by Bush.

It adds up. the Obama adm prosecuted an inordinate amount of spy cases.

Bennan is behind all of this Spygates

[dukkha]

CNN's Tapper: Obama has used Espionage Act more than all previous administrations
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact...act-more-all-/

[Nordberg]

Were you one conspiracy story away from your allotment? You guys are nuts. it was the Illuminati.

[Legion]

Were you one conspiracy story away from your allotment? You guys are nuts. it was the Illuminati.

Which fact that was presented are you able to refute?

[dukkha]

nothing conspirtorial here at all. It's simple abuse of power.
Brennan liked to throw his weight around even if he ruins a few lives.

Afterall; the prols should have known better then to screw with the Deep State

[kudzu]

Brennan is a real son of a bitch. this is selective prosecution, just because he can ( thru Mueller).
I heard someplace the memo read something "charge him anyway" when told there was lack of evidence
( he was cleared by Bush.

It adds up. the Obama adm prosecuted an inordinate amount of spy cases.

Bennan is behind all of this Spygates

John Chris Kiriakou is a columnist with Reader Supported News. He was a CIA analyst and case officer, senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, counterterrorism consultant for ABC News, and author. en.wikipedia.org

Born: August 9, 1964 (age 53),

[Nordberg]

Brennan is a real son of a bitch. this is selective prosecution, just because he can ( thru Mueller).
I heard someplace the memo read something "charge him anyway" when told there was lack of evidence
( he was cleared by Bush.

It adds up. the Obama adm prosecuted an inordinate amount of spy cases.

Bennan is behind all of this Spygates

What spy gate? Trump made that shit up. How do you people destroy the ability to think logically, or did you never have it?

[Nordberg]

Which fact that was presented are you able to refute?

Start with the fact he went to jail for revealing secrets. He contends that it was his letting torture out to the public. The CIA went after him for airing torture. He says a person involved in pushing his prosecution was Haspel. that makes sense. He had a trial. he was not jailed by Brennan, Obama or even Haspel. It was a judge.

[Legion]

Start with the fact he went to jail for revealing secrets. He contends that it was his letting torture out to the public. The CIA went after him for airing torture. He says a person involved in pushing his prosecution was Haspel. that makes sense. He had a trial. he was not jailed by Brennan, Obama or even Haspel. It was a judge.

Nearly five years after the Justice Department had concluded Kiriakou committed no crime by giving his 2007 ABC interview, the CIA approached the new Obama Justice Department, already engaged in its own unprecedented crackdown on government leaks,and asked them to reopen the case.

On April 5, 2012, Kiriakou was indicted for one count of violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, three counts of violating the Espionage Act, and one count of making false statements for allegedly lying to the Publications Review Board of the CIA. On April 13, Kiriakou pleaded not guilty to all charges. The District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia conducted closed Classified Information Procedures Act hearings in Kiriakou's case. On October 22, 2012, he agreed to plead guilty to one count of passing classified information to the media thereby violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act; his plea deal spared journalists from testifying in a trial. All other charges were dropped. Kiriakou was sentenced to 30 months in prison.

New York Times reporter Scott Shane referenced the Kiriakou case when he told NPR that Obama's prosecutions of journalism-related leaking were having a chilling effect on coverage of national security issues.

In January 2013, Bruce Riedel, a former intelligence adviser to Barack Obama who turned down an offer to be considered for CIA director in 2009, sent the President a letter signed by eighteen other CIA veterans urging that the sentence be commuted. On February 28, 2013, Kiriakou began serving his term.

Following his release, Kiriakou said his case was not about leaking information but about exposing torture, continuing, "and I would do it all over again."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kiriakou

[Legion]

What spy gate? Trump made that shit up. How do you people destroy the ability to think logically, or did you never have it?

Definition of spy: to watch secretly, usually for hostile purposes.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spy

[Rat Robbersson]

Oh fox news. nevermind.

This dude is trolling for a pardon, quite obviously.

[Rat Robbersson]

What spy gate? Trump made that shit up. How do you people destroy the ability to think logically, or did you never have it?

Short answer. no.

[Rat Robbersson]

Definition of spy: to watch secretly, usually for hostile purposes.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spy

now look up ​informant.

[dukkha]

Following his release, Kiriakou said his case was not about leaking information but about exposing torture, continuing, "and I would do it all over again."

is this about waterboarding?
Brennan decided to go after him for exposing "sources and methods".

He picked a whistle blower on waterboarding to do it to - to make an example out of it.
There was no other reason to reopen the case but that.