25.01.2013 - 18:11 [ Huffington Post ]

John Kiriakou Hopes Aaron Swartz‘s Death Sparks Discussion Of Prosecutorial Overreach

„I‘m frankly surprised that more people haven‘t committed suicide because of the way the Justice Department overreaches on these cases,“ said John Kiriakou, a 14-year CIA veteran who pleaded guilty to leaking the identity of another officer involved in the agency‘s terrorist interrogation program. „In my view, the Aaron Swartz prosecution is very typical of the Justice Department‘s policy of going after people in such a big way that the point is not necessarily to prosecute them, but it is to destroy them personally.“