In January 2012, John Kiriakou, former CIA officer and later Democratic staffer on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was charged under the Espionage Act with leaking information to journalists about the identity of undercover agents, including one who was allegedly involved in waterboarding interrogations of al-Qaeda logistics chief Abu Zubaydah.

: All that changed -- and Zubayda reportedly had a divine revelation -- after 30 to 35 seconds of waterboarding, Kiriakou said he learned from the CIA agents who performed the technique.

" John Kiriakou, a former CIA officer, is the first official within the U. S. government to openly admit to the use of waterboarding as an interrogation technique, as of 10 December 2007.

According to a previous account by former CIA officer John Kiriakou, Abu Zubaida broke after just 35 seconds of waterboarding, which involved stretching cellophane over his mouth and nose and pouring water on his face to create the sensation of drowning.

Former CIA operative John Kiriakou in 2007 told CNN's " American Morning " that the waterboarding of Al Qaeda's Abu Zubayda indirectly led to the arrest of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed:

In his 2009 memoir " Reluctant Spy " ( Bantam ), former CIA officer John Kiriakou wrote of driving past Saunders's blood-stained car the morning of 8 June.

: The terror suspect, who is being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, reportedly gave up information that indirectly led to the 2003 raid in Pakistan yielding the arrest of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, an alleged planner of the September 11, 2001, attacks, Kiriakou said.

Kiriakou, who described himself as driving far behind Saunders that morning, could not have been the " mega-spy " 17N described.

Without so much as a grimace or a gesture to show that he had noticed ( although he later admitted that he had ) Palmer proceeded to sink his 25-footer, and his gallery sent its explosive vocalization rolling back along the intervening fairways in reply.

The hostility to Agnes, it must be admitted, may be exaggerated by the chronicler William of Tyre, whom she prevented from becoming Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem decades later, as well as from William's continuators like Ernoul, who hints at a slight on her moral character: " car telle n ' est que roine doie iestre di si haute cite comme de Jherusalem " (" there should not be such a queen for so holy a city as Jerusalem ").

Vietnam later admitted that it played " a decisive role " in their seizure of power.

" Both Elsie and Frances later admitted that they " played along " with Hodson " out of mischief ", and that they considered him " a fake ".

Almost 60 years later, the thief admitted that the cup had been melted down to make counterfeit half-crown coins.

Secondly, Ford officials admitted later, the company's contentious relationship with Miles, its top contract driver, placed executives in a difficult position.

Cleveland later took a clerkship with the firm, and was admitted to the bar in 1859.

Schliemann later admitted fabricating it ; at the time of the discovery Sophia was in fact with her family in Athens, following the death of her father.

It was later admitted that the diplomats were killed by the Taliban, and their bodies were returned to Iran.

Howard's son later admitted that his father had carved the statue himself.

Then, during a later visit to Alberta, the Governor General was admitted to the Blackfoot tribe as Chief Eagle Head.

Although Rosenblum acquiesced to Ben-Gurion's request and legally changed his name to Vardi, he later admitted to regretting not signing as Rosenblum.

Mikhail Lyubimov, his closest KGB contact, explained that this was to guard his safety, but later admitted that the real reason was the KGB's fear that Philby would return to London.

This occurred when Oldfield mis-hit a hook, which flew from the top edge off a traditional non-bodyline ball ; Oldfield later admitted it was his fault.

" Sarkisov reported that Beria's sexual appetite had led to him contracting syphilis during the war, for which he was secretly treated without the knowledge of Stalin or the Politburo ( a fact Beria later admitted during his interrogation ).

Saint Joan of Arc-whose Catholic piety and orthodoxy are attested in numerous documents ( such as the letter she dictated threatening to lead a crusade against the Hussites ), and who was executed by the English for what even the tribunal members later admitted were political reasons-was rewritten as a pagan martyr by Murray.

The Montoneros later admitted losing 5, 000 guerrillas killed, and the Marxist-Leninist People's Revolutionary Army ( Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo or ERP ) admitted the loss of another 5, 000 of their own armed fighters killed.

Despite a warming by the Comintern, German tensions were raised when the Soviets stated in September that they must enter Poland to " protect " their ethnic Ukrainian and Belorussian brethren therein from Germany, though Molotov later admitted to German officials that this excuse was necessary because the Soviets could find no other pretext for the Soviet invasion.

As this " secret wisdom " can almost always be traced to recent sources, tellers of these stories have often later admitted they made them up.

MCA later admitted that over the next forty years it took in more than a billion dollars in rentals of these supposedly " worthless " pictures.

In 1414 Uccello was admitted to the painters ' guild Compagnia di San Luca and just one year later, in 1415, he joined the official painter's guild of Florence Arte dei Medici e degli Speziali.

According to Nicely, his contact person at Intel later admitted that Intel had been aware of the problem since May 1994, when the flaw was discovered during testing of the FPU for its new P6 core, first used in the Pentium Pro.

Robert Sarnoff was ousted in a 1975 boardroom coup by Anthony Conrad, who resigned a year later after he admitted failing to file income tax returns for six years.

In Hogan's later years he admitted shame and a sense of " race betrayal " for the song while also expressing pride in helping bring ragtime to a larger audience.

But a moment later he brought his horse forward into the light, and Wilson had a good look at him.

A split second later, the distant crack of a rifle had sounded.

If he wondered whether the attackers would allow him to pull away unmolested, he had his answer a moment later.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

Peter Marshall noted that Bang-Jensen had later referred to his two interviews with the Gross group as `` unfortunate experiences '', and after his second meeting on the sixteenth the Dane refused to attend further hearings without legal counsel.

Some, she knew, looked upon Thompson almost as a saint, but others read in `` The Hound Of Heaven '' what they took to be the confessions of a great sinner, who, like Oscar Wilde, had -- as one pious writer later put it -- thrown himself `` on the swelling wave of every passion ''.

He had not yet undertaken the great exploit of his later years, the rediscovery of the ancient Inca highway, the route of Pizarro in Peru, but he had climbed to the original El Dorado, the Andean lake of Guatemala, and he had scaled the southern Sierra Nevada with its Tibetan-like people and looked into the emerald mines of Muzo.

But one day came the voice of a man I had known when he was a boy, and I later remembered that this boy, thirty years before, had struck me as coming to no good.

I must have written to say how much I had enjoyed his fine book The Building Of Eternal Rome, and I found he had not regretted giving me the highest mark in his old course on the later Latin poets, although in my final examination I had ignored the questions and filled the bluebook with a comparison of Propertius and Coleridge.

Small wonder that Milton later boasted of how well his work had been received there, since he attained a rank in the order of commencing bachelors higher than that of any other inceptor from Christ's of that year.

Even though he would later be resurrected, he was at this moment dead indeed, the expression on his face reflecting what he had gone through on the cross.

Watson had nodded absently and muttered that he would check the lists himself later.

She thought again of her children, those two who had died young, before the later science which might have saved them could attach even a label to their separate malignancies.

Again among those jubilantly reunited bunkmates, I was shy with Jessie and acted as I had during those early Saturday mornings when we all seemed to be playing for effect, to be detached and unconcerned with the girls who were properly our dates but about whom, later, in the privacy of our bunks, we would think in terms of the most elaborate romance.

and, although he later explained that he was talking French, it seems rather more likely that he had succumbed to the joys of the evening.

A little later the district attorney woke up, emerged from under the couch, looked at his watch, and realized he had an engagement that very hour to address a meeting of the Culture Forum on `` The Civic Spirit of the Southland '', in the Byzantine room of the hotel where his wife, as president of the forum, was to preside.

On Feb. 12, 1959, purified corticotropin ( ACTH Gel ), 20 units daily intramuscularly, was started but had to be discontinued 3 weeks later because of excessive fluid retention.

Later it developed that the Soviets had a very different interpretation of democracy, which will be discussed later, and their judgment never told them that the Big Three should unite in establishing democratic conditions, as we understand them, within their zone of influence.

The P.D.I. and later the Popular Movement protected the Istiqlal's `` privileged position '' until the fall of Balafrej, and then the Istiqlal used the same argument, which it had previously ignored, against the pro-U.N.F.P. tendencies of the Ibrahim government.

While Protogeometric vases usually turn up, especially outside Greece proper, together with as many or more examples of local stamp, these `` non-Greek '' patterns had mostly vanished by the later ninth century.