Is This Former CIA Agent A Betrayer Or Whistleblower?

Ex-CIA Officials Assail ID Of Agents -- Washington Times

They see betrayer, not whistleblower.

Former intelligence officials use “reprehensible” and “egregious” to describe the alleged acts of a former CIA officer charged by the government with betraying his own when he revealed the identities of two overseas operatives to the media.

These former officials reject the image of John Kiriakou as a high-minded “whistleblower” who sought to expose official wrongdoing or a botched intelligence operation.

Mr. Kiriakou took his leaking to a more dangerous level, they say, by explicitly telling one reporter the name of a current CIA covert officer and giving the name to three journalists of another CIA hand - the analyst who interrogated Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and other top al Qaeda figures, according to Justice Department documents.

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My Comment: Leaking the names of CIA officials is a huge breach of security and an act of betrayal .... if these claims of the US Justice Department can be proven in a court of law .... Mr. Kiriakou is heading for some serious jail time.