TheRealNewsNetwork covered the award ceremony at American University on Sept. 25, at which Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence honored John Kiriakou with its 15th annual award.  The short Real News report shows John accepting the award from former FBI Division Counsel and Special Agent Coleen Rowley and Elizabeth Murray.

 

(six and a half minutes)

or, with transcript:

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=17339

Coleen Rowley received SAAII’s first annual award in 2002 – the same year she was named a Time magazine Person of the Year (an honor she shared with two other courageous women whistleblowers.)  Elizabeth Murray, former Deputy National Intelligence Officer for the Near East, planned and coordinated the award ceremony, which was MCed by former UK Ambassador Craig Murray, the awardee in 2005.  Speakers included two other former awardees – Larry Wilkerson (2009) and Tom Drake (2011) – together with two former CIA officials, analyst Larry Johnson and operations officer Phil Geraldi.

 

The entire ceremony at American University (1 hour & 19 minutes) was video-ed by American University and appears, together with other information on Sam Adams Associates, on the website samadamsaward.ch. You can also view it here:

 

 

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