![]() ![]() In an interview with the New York Times, Silverstein said that Leibowitz released the material “because of concerns about Israel’s aggressive efforts to influence Congress and public opinion, and fears that Israel might strike nuclear facilities in Iran.”įormer CIA official John Kiriakou is a former CIA counter-terrorism operative who spent two years in federal prison and three additional months under house arrest for leaking the name a former colleague who interrogated detainees using harsh practices including waterboarding” to journalists. The documents consisted of around 200 pages of documents containing transcribed conversations recorded by FBI wiretaps of the Israeli embassy in Washington to blogger Richard Silverstein. Shamai Leibowitz, was a former FBI Hebrew translator, he was sentenced to 20 months in prison in 2010 after pleading guilty to leaking classified information anti-Israel blogger Richard Silverstein. ![]() This was a legal and proper channel for agency employees to voice any such concerns. “He had grave concerns about mismanagement of the program and potential harm to our country. In 2003, Jeffrey went to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to voice concerns he had regarding ‘Operation Merlin,’ which he worked on while at the agency,” Holly Sterling wrote. Like Drake, Sterling’s revelations occurred after he tried to get congress to act: Risen revealed the operation in his 2006 book, “State of War,” describing it as a mismanaged, potentially reckless mission that may have inadvertently aided the Iranian nuclear program. operation to give flawed nuclear blueprints to Iran, Mr. Jeffrey Sterling was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in May for revealing classified information about the CIA’s effort to disrupt Iran’s nuclear program to journalist James Risen (who refused to reveal his sources). Sterling was convicted of sharing with Risen information of a failed C.I.A. His lawyer said the information at issue “was less sensitive or surprising than much of what we read in the newspaper every day.” He did 13 months in prison. Note he revealed classifed info, Hillary was reckless with top secret info as well as the lower classifications of secrets. That was the case where the former AG Eric Holder wiretapped Rosen’s parents. Stephen Kim pleaded guilty in 2014 to disclosing a classified report on North Korea to Fox News reporter James Rosen. ![]() Skipping Bradley Chelsea Manning because his leak was in a category of its own, the other four shows that there are “reasonable” prosecutors who will bring charges in such cases. Five-John Kiriakou, Shamai Leibowitz, Jeffrey Sterling, former State Department official Stephen Kim, and Bradley Chelsea Manning - got jail time.” Really? Since Obama took office in 2009, seven people have been charged under the Espionage Act - all for leaking classified or sensitive information. On Tuesday morning FBI Director James Comey said “Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statute regarding the handling of classified information, no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.” ![]()
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