In a May 22, 2010 letter to President Obama, Congressman Todd Akin (R.-2nd Dist, Missouri) called for a "full and thorough investigation" into how the identities of two CIA covert operatives were leaked to the ACLU. Forty-seven other members of Congress co-signed Congressman Akin's letter. After one year of the DOJ seemingly taking no action, and then two years of investigating, on January 23, 2012, former CIA employee John Kiriakou was charged with leaking the identities of two CIA officers to three journalists, who then gave the information to an investigator working in the ACLU's John Adams Project. Photographs of the CIA officers were obtained and inserted into a group of non-CIA personnel photos, and then given to detainees. The detainees were to pick out the faces of their interrogators whom they recognized. So does Kiriakou's arrest end the investigation? Not for Congressman Akin. He believes there are more concerns attached to this case. When, on January 24, 2012, Akin's office was contacted for a comment concerning the arrest of....
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