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Designated CIA surrogate? So Mr. Kiriakou would seem.
Update: To elaborate, I suspect but don't know that if a recent former CIA op as he was appears on network TV news in a concerted fashion -- ABC, NBC, also Post, etc. -- with a message that a) he didn't torture b) good we're having this discussion c) it worked this one time d) we shouldn't do it anymore but was effective at time and stopped a gazillion attacks e) it was all authorized up and down the line, including by high U.S. officials (how would he know that?) then it would seem to me highly plausible his media appearances are not only tolerated by CIA HQ but he's some sort of surrogate being put forward to some degree with an approved message. And I believe he represents Hayden. No coincidence he appeared the night before and day Hayden goes to testify at SSCI and tomorrow before HPSCI. (Such an impression has been influenced by the correspondent cited here.)
Update 2: Apparently not! People at Agency upset about him going on TV, a source says. "No way" that he's any sort of approved surrogate. Most controversial at the Agency are Kiriakou's statements about waterboarding. ' ... The American public has already decided they call this torture. Doesn't matter how many times you say it doesn't have any lasting effects, it just scares people.' Agency apparently very angry about Kiriakou's appearances on TV and threatening to trace him down. Isn't there anyone politically sophisticated enough at the top layers of the Agency to get that this guy's message may be ultimately useful to Hayden, I asked? There are, this source says, but they don't ever touch the parts of the process that work to counter the type of comments Kiriakou making. "He seems like a decent kid," he says. But he worries he's "going to get burned." More from Marty Lederman.
More from ABC: "The former CIA intelligence official who went public on ABC News about the agency's use of waterboarding in interrogations, John Kiriakou, apparently will not be the subject of a Justice Department investigation, even though some CIA officials believe he revealed classified information about the use of waterboarding. ... Gen. Michael Hayden, the CIA director, did sent out a classified memo this morning warning all employees 'of the importance of protecting classified information,' a CIA spokesperson told ABCNews.com." That memo was, apparently, classified. And DOJ decided that quickly, it would seem?