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If you're a CIA employee it's ok to torture people, but talk to a reporter? Go to jail.

Jeffrey Sterling.


Jeffrey Sterling.

Dan Froomkin at The Intercept on the fate of CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling, who was convicted of espionage this week for talking to New York Times Reporter James Risen:

The Sterling case – – especially in light of Obama’s complicity in the cover-up of torture during the Bush administration – sends a clear message to people in government service: You won’t get in trouble as long as you do what you’re told (even torture people). But if you talk to a reporter and tell him something we want kept secret, we will spare no effort to destroy you.

Previously on Boing Boing:
CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling convicted of espionage in NYT leak case

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