Former CIA officer John Kiriakou is the man who first confirmed that the CIA was using waterboarding to torture detainees. He’s also the only person to ever go to jail over the CIA’s torture program. Now he’s home on house arrest, and speaking out about his concerns over the future of vital leaks.
Pre-trial hearings began Monday in the case against five men accused of terrorism, including Khalid Sheik Mohammed. But a reporter from the Miami Herald says the hearings could be complicated by questions about how the defendants were detained.
For some people watching the pre-trial hearings in the case of Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks, there was a simple question: Is that man responsible for the death of my loved one? That was the simple, non-legal question likely on the minds of the four families whose loved ones […]