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Still classified: Terror suspects’ own accounts of their abuse
By Cora Currier ProPublica In a motion unsealed last week, the government proposed new ground rules for classified information in the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others charged with planning the 9/11 attacks. The new order says the accused can’t talk about their “observations and experiences” of being…
Pentagon wants to ‘preserve our options’ on SEAL book legal action
The Pentagon has not decided whether a book by a former US Navy SEAL on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden exposes state secrets but it is keeping its legal options open, a spokesman said Friday. “I’m not going to characterize one way or the other whether we think there’s classified information in it,”…
CIA agent indicted for leaking secrets to journalists
WASHINGTON — A former CIA officer was indicted Thursday on charges of leaking secrets to journalists, including the name of a covert agent and the role of another CIA employee in classified operations. John Kiriakou, who had previously revealed the CIA’s use of waterboarding of Al-Qaeda suspects, was charged in…
CIA whistleblower charged for leaking torture secrets
A former CIA official who publicly confirmed the waterboarding of top Al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah was charged Monday with leaking classified information to journalists, including the identities of two CIA officers. John Kiriakou, who served with the CIA between 1990 and 2004, was charged with violating a law that makes…
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