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17:57 26/01/2013
Former CIA agent is sentenced to 30 months in prison
A former CIA agent who leaked a covert officer's name to the media has been sentenced to 30 months in prison, the BBC informs.
John Kiriakou, 48, pleaded guilty in 2012 to violating an intelligence law. No-one had been convicted under the statute in 27 years.
He admitted passing on the name of a former officer who was part of the interrogation of detainees, including alleged waterboarding.
Defence lawyers argued that Kiriakou was a whistleblower.
US District Judge Leonie Brinkema rejected that argument, and said she would have given him a longer sentence if she could.
A plea deal required the former agent be sentenced to 30 months.
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