The only person to go to prison over CIA torture is . . .

[struggle4progress]

5. Kiriakou isn't any sort of "whistle-blower" on torture: in his 10 December 2007 interview

with NBC's Brian Ross, Kiriakou was arguing in favor of waterboarding -- and to make this argument, Kiriakou claimed to know from personal experience that Abu Zubaydah had completely cracked after just 30 seconds of waterboarding and had then revealed everything he knew

None of this was true: Kiriakou wasn't there; Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded more than 80 times; and no important information ever came from waterboarding anyone

Despite what the crackpots at Firedoglake suggest, the bottom line is that Kiriakou was just another lying apologist for the Bush administration's torturers

Moreover (and again despite what the crackpots at Firedoglake suggest), Kiriakou was not tried or convicted for blowing the whistle on torture: he was sentenced for violation of the Intelligence Identity Protection Act

People can't think straight if they can't get the facts right first: IMO sites like Firedoglake work overtime to fuck-up everybody's thinking with a constant stream of bullshit