John Kiriakou Has a Podcast! – Antiwar.com Blog

John Kiriakou is an American Hero. Kiriakou joined the CIA in 1990 and became a Middle East analyst focusing on Iraq.   Later, he became a counter-terrorism operating officer working in Greece, and after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks he was made Chief of Counterterrorist Operations in Pakistan. Officials at the agency attempted to involve him in the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation program.” Quickly realizing that this was actually a torture program, which was illegal and immoral, he declined. He left the CIA in 2004. In 2007, Kiriakou blew the whistle on the CIA’s torture program in an interview with ABC News. He explained the details of the program and named former CIA colleagues who participated. Bush’s CIA investigated Kiriakou for over a year, but declined to prosecute him. Shortly after Barack Obama became president, Kiriakou was charged with espionage and faced 45 years in prison. Eventually, he was offered 23 months if he pled guilty, which he did. Recently, I have been watching a number of interviews with Kiriakou, and have been fascinated with his frank and clear explanations and his amazing stories about the deep state. One of the best interviews I watched was with Jason Jones, a Catholic
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