Kiriakou

Kiriakou was charged with one count of revealing the identity of a covert agent, two counts of violating the Espionage Act for disclosing national defense information and one count of making false statements.

Ex-CIA officer charged with leaking information to journalists 2012

John Kiriakou, 47, worked for the CIA from 1990 to 2004 as an intelligence officer and then was a senior staff member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2009 until May 2011.

Ex-CIA officer charged with leaking information to journalists 2012

During a brief court hearing, a federal judge released Kiriakou on a $250,000 bond and restricted him to traveling only in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area.

Ex-CIA officer charged with leaking information to journalists 2012

The justice department said that one of the journalists that Kiriakou aided had provided the information about the two CIA officers to an investigator for the defense team for detainees at the prison.

Ex-CIA officer charged with leaking information to journalists 2012

Kiriakou also was accused of revealing to three reporters the identity of a second CIA officer involved in the capture and interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, believed to be al Qaeda's field commander who was captured in March 2002 in Pakistan.

Ex-CIA officer charged with leaking information to journalists 2012

“From that day on, he answered every question,” Kiriakou said.

Think Progress » AZ Sen. candidate Hayworth panders to birthers: ‘We all had to show our birth certificates’ to ‘play football.’ 2010

Former CIA officer John Kiriakou was charged by the Federal Bureau of Investigation with providing classified information to a New York Times reporter, leading to a 2008 article in that newspaper.

Corrections & Amplifications 2012

John Kiriakou was a CIA officer from 1990 until 2004, and senior investigator on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2009 until 2011.

John Kiriakou: Why John Kerry Was Right to Talk to the Muslim Brotherhood John Kiriakou 2011

The bureau separately alleges Mr. Kiriakou provided information identifying a Central Intelligence Agency officer to another reporter, and the second reporter passed on the information to an investigator working for defense attorneys representing detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Corrections & Amplifications 2012

Kiriakou's lawyer, Plato Chacheris, who previously represented former CIA agent and spy Aldrich Ames, was not immediately available for comment.

Ex-CIA officer charged with leaking information to journalists 2012