Title: Former CIA officer sentenced for leaks
Show: JewishNewsOne
Date: 2013-01-26
URL: https://youtu.be/cMncTyJAdQg
Duration: 1.9:00

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[00:00] [Music] former US Central Intelligence Agency officer John kiraku has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for blowing the cover of another CIA agent marking the first time in 27 years that anyone has been sentenced to prison for disclosing a covert agent's identity kaku's case stems back to 2008 when he revealed the agent's name in an email to a reporter he had repeatedly helped journalists with information on the cia's inter ation technique of water

[00:31] boarding and its interrogation of al-Qaeda operative Abu Zaba I would like to thank the dozens of former and active duty CIA officers and FBI agents and assistant us attorneys who rallied to my side although most of them had to do so privately I thank them for their their cards their emails their donations to my defense fund it was their friendship and the support of my friends and family that uh really got me through this prosecutors told reporters

[01:02] outside the courthouse that the leaks of the sort kiraku was charged with go to the heart of the nation's intelligence Service as the judge just said uh in court today's sentence should be a reminder to uh every individual who works for the government who comes into the possession of closely held sensitive uh information regarding the national uh defense or the identity of a covert agent uh that it is critical that that information uh remain secure and not

[01:34] spill out uh into the public domain or be shared with others who don't have uh authorized access to it after pleading guilty kyaku sentence closes one of six prosecutions the Obama Administration has pursued against alleged leakers of classified information
