March 16, 2010: Former CIA interrogator John Kiriakou argues that waterboarding can be necessary and immoral when fighting al-Qaida.
By msnbc.com staff and news services
A former CIA officer who said he participated in the capture and?interrogation of alleged terrorist Abu Zubaydah?was charged Monday with disclosing classified information to journalists, the Justice Department announced.
In a statement, the department said John Kiriakou, 47, revealed the name of a covert CIA officer and the role of another CIA agent in classified activities involving the capture and detention of Zubaydah, who had been the third most senior al-Qaida figure and who?is now? at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay.
Kiriakou, who wrote a book about the CIA and has said he was on the team that captured?Zubaydah in 2002,?was to make an initial court appearance later Monday.
March 20, 2010: Msnbc's Alex Witt talks with author John Kiriakou about his new book "The Reluctant Spy."
"The investigation revealed that on multiple occasions," the department stated, "one of the journalists to whom Kiriakou is alleged to have illegally disclosed classified information, in turn, disclosed that information to a defense team investigator, and that this information was reflected in the classified defense filing and enabled the defense team to take or obtain surveillance photographs of government personnel."
Kiriakou has told reporters that the interrogation of?Zubaydah included the technique known as waterboarding and that he believes it led to valuable information that helped foil al-Qaida plots.
In a statement to CIA staff made public by the agency, CIA Director David Petraeus said that "When we joined this organization, we swore to safeguard classified information; those oaths stay with us for life. Unauthorized disclosures of any sort -- including information concerning the identities of other Agency officers -- betray the public trust, our country, and our colleagues."
DOCUMENT: Read the complaint against Kirakou
A judge last year refused to find the CIA in contempt of court when it destroyed dozens of videotapes of?the interrogation of Zubaydah and other detainees.
Dec. 11, 2007: Former CIA agent John Kiriakou talks about the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes.
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In December 2007, the CIA acknowledged doing so as part of?the detention program begun after the Sept. 11 attacks.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
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