John Kiriakou: American Spy to be Charged under espionage Act

John Kiriakou’s 

Path From Ambitious

Spy to Federal Defendant

- NYTimes.com:

Former CIA officer John Kiriakou,
left, and his attorney John Hundley,
leave federal court in Alexandria,
Virginia. Photograph: Jacquelyn Martin/AP

The Witnessing 

Of American 

Torture

-the Atlantic

Former CIA Agent Charged Under Espionage Act For Reporting Torture -Buzzfeed

"He's not a "whistleblower." He's a guy who hunted down Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan who decided waterboarding was a bad idea and decided to say so.

People already knew waterboarding was going on. He just said it didn't work, pointing out that Abu Zubaydah was talking immediately and didn't need to be waterboarded 83 times.

Pretty embarrassing for the government. So, they found one reporter to say that Kiriakou gave him one name.

Oh. And they fired his wife this week for good measure."
-AdminPassword via Reddit

The United States' Secrets: War Post 9/11

Frontline's "Top Secret America"

     The Over Seas Contingency Operations, formally the Global War on Terror (G.W.O.T. got a make over back in 2009), has lead to a reshaping of American foreign policy.

Watch Top Secret America on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE.

Transcript of Top Secret America

9/11 Commission Report (pdf)

2004 American Budget

The Surge is Working- by David Petraeus

"These buildings that─ they might only be
 four stories high, but they go down ten stories.
  And there’s a whole world down there, like
 shops and places to eat, that you don’t know
 about that’s just for them."
MICHAEL WILLIAMSON WITH THE WASHINGTON POST

"In a post-9/11 world,
 we weren’t going to be so prissy."
-HOMELAND SECURITY ADVISER FRAN TOWNSEND

The N.S.A. properties in Maryland total 8.6 million square feet of office space, 1.3 times as big as the Pentagon.(Photo by Sandra McConnell, N.S.A.)

more Pictures of "In Our Back Yards" by the Washington Post