For comparisons sake Scooter Libby was also convicted of revealing the identity of a CIA operative. But his sentence was commuted by then President George W Bush.
Scooter Libby explicitly and intentionally revealed Valerie Plame's name as retaliation for her husband's New York Time's article detailing the lack of evidence that Saddam Hussein could have acquired Uranium from Niger. John Kiriakou admits to providing a name to a journalist as a source of information on torture but the name has never been published.
Scooter Libby was convicted of outing a CIA operative as retribution for her whistle blowing husband. John Kiriakou is a whistle blower who gave a reporter a yet unpublished name. In both cases the actual whistle blowers were punished. One through losing their career as a CIA operative(Valerie Plame) and the other by being sent to prison(John Kiriakou).
Libby should be still in jail if not on death row - note that AFASK Manning is accused of releaseing secret information however the real identity of a CIA officer is Top Secret.
Scooter Libby explicitly and intentionally revealed Valerie Plame's name as retaliation for her husband's New York Time's article detailing the lack of evidence that Saddam Hussein could have acquired Uranium from Niger. John Kiriakou admits to providing a name to a journalist as a source of information on torture but the name has never been published.
Scooter Libby was convicted of outing a CIA operative as retribution for her whistle blowing husband. John Kiriakou is a whistle blower who gave a reporter a yet unpublished name. In both cases the actual whistle blowers were punished. One through losing their career as a CIA operative(Valerie Plame) and the other by being sent to prison(John Kiriakou).