The world's a-changing folks and left\right, rep\dem, liberal\conservative - you just can't count on them.
Tucker Carlson on Fox apologized to this guy for not publicizing the facts of his case earlier.
https://www.democracynow.org/2015/2/9/exclusive_freed_cia_whistleblower_john_kiriakou
Here's his short story: he performs honorable and dangerous service at cia; heard Bush admin lying about torture practices to the public (maybe congress too i dunno), and so he exposes it. Bush admin is, like, do community service or something (I made that part up) then Brennan comes in under Obama and bankrupts and jails him over some something else completely - really punishing him for the former crime.