A former U.S. Senate investigator who had previously worked for the
CIA was arrested Monday and charged with repeatedly leaking classified
information to journalists as well as violating the federal law that
forbids disclosing the identity of covert intelligence officers.
John
Kiriakou, who between 2009 and last year worked as an investigator for
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was
charged by a federal grand jury with one count of violating the
Intelligence Agencies Protection Act, two counts of violating the
Espionage Act and one count of lying to the CIA about his actions in an
effort to convince the agency to let him publish a book, "The Reluctant
Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA's War on Terror."
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