Sources: Photo of Key CIA Interrogator Shown to Gitmo Detainees

As the Justice Department investigates whether Guantanamo Bay detainees were improperly given about 45 photos of CIA officers or contractors, FOX News has learned that one of the photos was of a lead interrogator of the accused plotters of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

The interrogator, a now-retired CIA operative named Deuce Martinez, had spent more than a year trying to get information out of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, known as the mastermind of those attacks, and Martinez also interrogated Abu Zubaydah and Ramzi bin Al Shibh.

Martinez’s identity was first revealed publicly a year ago in an article by the New York Times, which published his name despite strong appeals by the CIA and its director not to run the story. The Times argued that Martinez wasn’t a covert agent, but the CIA said revealing his name still would put his life at risk.

It is a violation of federal law to identify CIA covert personnel, and it is a violation of military commission rules to disclose classified information, even if only to the defendants.

The photos reportedly were provided to the detainees by the John Adams Project, a combined effort of the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers to assist in the defense of the detainees.

Sources told FOX News that the ACLU and detainees’ defense attorneys sent a photographer to Martinez’s home in Northern Virginia and took photos of him that were later shown to some of Al Qaeda’s worst of the worst at Gitmo.

But FOX News also learned from its sources that there is some question whether the Justice Department itself may have played a role in relaying photos of covert CIA operatives — which would make the story even more unbelievable, according to some lawmakers with responsibility for intelligence oversight.

The Justice Department’s investigation of the photos, led by counterespionage chief John Dion, is trying to determine if military lawyers defending the detainees divulged classified information or compromised covert CIA officers.

The investigation was first reported by The Washington Post on its Web site Thursday night. The ACLU told the Post the organization was confident no laws or regulations had been broken. …

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As if this isn’t outrageous enough, be sure to reread this:

Martinez’s identity was first revealed publicly a year ago in an article by the New York Times, which published his name despite strong appeals by the CIA and its director not to run the story. The Times argued that Martinez wasn’t a covert agent, but the CIA said revealing his name still would put his life at risk.

This from the very same New York Times that constantly rehashes the “outing” of Valerie Plame?!?!

Traitors. One and all.

On the same token, they are also confident no laws were broken by the bastards in guantanamo, sooo I’d take that with a grain of salt.

I’ve always known these people hate our culture and our way of life. They want to use the courts and our media to amend it out of existence. But for the first time I really now see them as an enemy within our country. They’re surveilling and reconnoitering the CIA on behalf of terrorists who are soon going to be released by Obama? That’s an act of war if you ask me.

And, of course, I agree – shoot these bastards, too.