courage to denounce torture: choosing conscience over career

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Obama's war on whistleblowers has claimed a fresh casualty, this time an agent of the President's private army.

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In 2007, John [Kiriakou] became the first CIA officer to call waterboarding "torture"; to reveal that the CIA's torture program was policy rather than a few rogue agents; and to say it was wrong.

Attorney Jesselyn Radack exposes misapplication of the Espionage Act to prosecute her client, and the use of a de facto Official Secrets Act to protect torturers and their apologists.

What's Left Out of the "national security" narrative

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