{"id":13802,"date":"2012-01-25T09:01:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T17:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=13802"},"modified":"2012-01-25T09:01:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T17:01:12","slug":"obamas-unprecedented-crackdown-on-whistleblowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/25\/obamas-unprecedented-crackdown-on-whistleblowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Unprecedented Crackdown on Whistleblowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/blog\/secrecy\/2012\/01\/kiriakou_iipa.html\">Secrecy News has a post up on\u00a0John Kiriakou<\/a>, the\u00a0former CIA officer being charged under the Espionage Act for contributing to the exposure of state crimes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the present case, Mr. Kiriakou is charged with providing the name of a \u201ccovert agent\u201d in response to inquiries from a reporter, \u201cJournalist A,\u201d who then passed that information on to defense attorneys at Guantanamo.\u00a0 (The attorneys used the information in a classified pleading that they filed in 2009, which is what first brought the unauthorized disclosure to official attention.)<\/p>\n<p>An FBI affidavit attached to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/sgp\/jud\/kiriakou\/complaint.pdf\">criminal complaint<\/a>\u00a0against Kiriakou states repeatedly that no laws were broken by the defense team that received the classified information.\u00a0 The FBI notably does not volunteer the same assurance concerning Journalist A (whose name is not yet on the public record), who actively solicited the proscribed information from Kiriakou and forwarded it to the defense attorneys.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Mr. Kiriakou is the sixth individual to be charged in the Obama Administration\u2019s unprecedented campaign against leaks of classified information to the media, following\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/blog\/secrecy\/2010\/05\/jail_leak.html\" target=\"_blank\">Shamai Leibowitz<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/sgp\/jud\/sterling\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jeffrey Sterling<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/sgp\/jud\/drake\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Drake<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/sgp\/jud\/manning\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bradley Manning<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/sgp\/jud\/kim\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Kim<\/a>.\u00a0 Among other things, the Administration\u2019s aggressive pursuit of leaks represents a challenge to the practice of national security reporting, which depends on the availability of unauthorized sources if it is to produce something more than \u201cauthorized\u201d news.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secrecy News has a post up on\u00a0John Kiriakou, the\u00a0former CIA officer being charged under the Espionage Act for contributing to the exposure of state crimes: In the present case, Mr. Kiriakou is charged with providing the name of a \u201ccovert agent\u201d in response to inquiries from a reporter, \u201cJournalist A,\u201d who then passed that information 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