Starvin Larry

A country is in deep trouble when criminals in government go free, but the people who expose them go to jail. Here’s a disturbing story and a plea for justice from John Kiriakou at antiwar.com:

I served two years in prison for exposing the CIA’s torture program. Why are the men responsible for it walking free?

After I blew the whistle on the CIA’s torture program in 2007, the fallout for me was brutal. To make a long story short, I served nearly two years in federal prison and then endured a few more months of house arrest.

What happened to the torture program? Nothing.

Following years of waiting for the government to do something, I was heartened when I read in my prison cell – in a four-day-old copy of The New York Times – that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence had finally released in December a heavily…