So-called 'American Taliban' member released after serving 17-year sentence The family of Mike Spann, a CIA officer who interrogated John Walker Lindh and then was killed by militants, appealed to ...

Shannon Spann bounces her baby on a knee, coaxing a smile from the otherwise stolid 10-month-old. "I'm a pretty special boy," she coos, as Jake gnaws on a plastic Elmo doll. A portrait of Jake's dad, ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Mike Spann, a Marine turned CIA officer, felt a duty to go to Afghanistan in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. In one of his last phone calls home to check on his children, ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- CIA officer Johnny "Mike" Spann reportedly questioned fellow American and alleged Taliban warrior John Walker shortly before the Afghan prisoner uprising in which Spann was killed.