Media Relationship with Intelligence Community Remains Murky

Last month the U.S. Department Of Justice indicted a former CIA agent, John Kiriakou, for allegedly passing classified information to reporters and misleading the CIA in order to get permission to publish his memoirs. Specifically, the indictment accuses the former CIA officer of giving one journalist the name of the covert CIA agent and helping New York Times reporter Scott Shane identify a second agent involved in the waterboarding of al Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah. In a new article in the National Journal, Yochi J. Dreazen discusses the case against Kiriakou in depth and looks at the relationship between the CIA and journalists.