No one has been convicted or imprisoned for the CIA torture scandal. The Senate Intelligence Committee's report on the CIA's use of enhanced interrogation techniques, which were widely considered to be torture, was released in December 2014. The report detailed the CIA's use of waterboarding and other harsh methods on terrorism suspects in the years following the 9/11 attacks. However, no criminal charges have been brought against anyone involved in the program, and the Department of Justice has not pursued any prosecutions. Some human rights groups and lawmakers have called for those responsible to be held accountable, but to date, no one has been charged or convicted for their role in the CIA's enhanced interrogation program.
A CIA officer named John Kiriakou was convicted in 2012 of violating the Espionage Act for disclosing classified information to journalists about the CIA's use of waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques. He pleaded guilty to one count of violating the Espionage Act and was sentenced to 30 months in prison. Kiriakou's supporters argue that he is a whistleblower who exposed government misconduct and should not have been charged under the Espionage Act, while prosecutors argue that he revealed classified information that put national security at risk.
It's worth noting that Kiriakou didn't leak the classified information about the CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques. He acknowledged that he provided the name of a covert CIA officer to a reporter, but did not leak classified information about the CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques.
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