He led a dangerous nighttime raid in Pakistan that captured a top al-Qaeda suspect, then became the first CIA officer ever imprisoned over a classified leak, related to the very interrogation programs he had helped facilitate. This episode traces the contradictory life of John Kiriakou.

We follow him from a Rust Belt childhood and a classroom recruitment into the CIA, through his shift from analyst to field officer, to his public confirmation of waterboarding, his prosecution, and his later reinvention as an activist and viral media personality.

• Being scouted by a professor secretly working as a CIA psychiatrist
• Leading the 2002 raid that captured Abu Zubaydah
• His 2007 ABC News interview confirming the CIA's use of waterboarding
• The email trail that led to charges under the Intelligence Identities Protecti ...