Oliver Stone’s film ‘Snowden’ may change US public opinion and garner support to pardon the whistleblower, who performed a public service in the public interest, says James Bamford.

CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou, who exposed the CIA’s torture programme, is serving a 30-month prison sentence.

The Obama administration accidentally revealed the name of the CIA’s top official in Afghanistan in an email to thousands of journalists during the president’s surprise weekend trip to Bagram Air Field.

CIA director Michael Hayden, testifying in secret before the US Senate Intelligence Committee, failed to answer key questions about the destruction of secret videotapes showing harsh interrogation of terror suspects, the panel’s chairman said.

The extreme interrogation method used on a top al-Qaida captive was approved at the top levels of the US government, a former CIA agent claimed today.