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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 931275" data-attributes="member: 12952"><a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71826.html" target="_blank">(Politico)</a>  — A former CIA officer was charged Monday with disclosing the identity  of a covert CIA officer and with telling journalists the name an agency  officer involved with the interrogation of alleged Al Qaeda leader Abu  Zubaydah. The Justice Department charged that John Kiriakou, 47, who worked as a  CIA officer from 1990 to 2004, revealed the information to journalists  and that one reporter passed some of the secrets onto attorneys  representing prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. Kiriakou’s case is the sixth leak-related criminal prosecution  brought since President Barack Obama took office, a figure that exceeds  the number of such cases in all previous administrations combined.</blockquote>