Ex-Officer Is First From C.I.A. to Face Prison for a Leak - NYTimes.com
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the irony of this whole thing is, very simply, that he’s going to be the only C.I.A. officer to go to jail over #torture,” even though he publicly denounced torture, Mr. Riedel said. “It’s deeply ironic under the Democratic president who ended torture.”
#CIA #secret #défense #whistleblower
There is wide agreement in the government that too much information is classified, and even senior officials are sometimes uncertain about what is secret.