The past month has seen blows against freedom of speech for independent news outlets and, indeed, for all Americans. I’m not being hyperbolic here. There are real threats to our freedom of speech against which we ought to mobilize. First, the Biden administration...
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The Dark Past of Biden’s Nominee for National Intelligence Director
by John Kiriakou | Jan 2, 2021 | Featured Articles
Former acting CIA Director Mike Morell, who has disingenuously argued for years that he had nothing to do with the agency’s torture program, but who continued to defend it, has taken himself out of the running to be President-elect Joe Biden’s new CIA director. The...
Know Your Rights. Don’t Talk to Cops at the Airport
by John Kiriakou | Aug 28, 2020 | Featured Articles
I confess to a dislike of the police; any police at any level. I dislike equally local cops, state troopers, federal law enforcement from a myriad of agencies and prison guards. I’ve always said, “Give a man a badge and a gun and you’ve created a monster.” I also...
Those Torture Drawings in the NYT
by John Kiriakou | Dec 14, 2019 | Featured Articles
The New York Times last week published shocking drawings by Guantanamo prisoner Abu Zubaydah showing in graphic detail the types of tortures he endured at the hands of CIA officers and contractors at secret prisons around the world. The drawings were sickening. With a...
What Was This CIA Officer Thinking?
by John Kiriakou | Oct 1, 2019 | Featured Articles
Photo: White HouseThe news is dominated by “the whistleblower,” the CIA officer who reported to the CIA Inspector General (IG) that President Donald Trump may have committed a crime during a conversation with the president of Ukraine. I’ve been fascinated by the story...
In Search of a Russiagate Scalp: The Entrapment of Maria Butina
by John Kiriakou | Sep 2, 2019 | Featured Articles
Much has been written about Maria Butina, the Russian “spy” who was accused of seeking to infiltrate the National Rifle Association and other organizations to try to gain a foothold in the Trump campaign and, later, in the White House. Much of it turned out to be...
Julian Assange: Prisoner of Conscience
by John Kiriakou | Jun 4, 2019 | Featured Articles
Federal authorities in the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) last week issued a superceding indictment and charged Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange with 17 counts of espionage. Along with a charge of conspiring to gain access to a government computer, he faces...
The Railroad That Awaits Julian Assange
by John Kiriakou | Apr 15, 2019 | Featured Articles
The Justice Department said Thursday that it was charging Julian Assange with one felony count of conspiring to hack into a computer. In the greater scheme of things, that’s a nonsensical charge. There are probably 10,000 fat, lonely guys, living in their parents’...
Brennan and Clapper Should Not Escape Prosecution
by John Kiriakou | Nov 12, 2018 | Featured Articles
Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, the longtime chairman of the Judiciary Committee, made a dramatic announcement Nov. 1 that should lead to jail time for both former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. As reported, but...
The Conservative Case Against Gina Haspel
by John Kiriakou | May 8, 2018 | Featured Articles
The White House is insisting that Gina Haspel move forward in nomination as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, despite her own concerns that the Senate hearings—expected to begin Wednesday—could turn brutal over her history in the CIA’s torture program. The...
A Warning for Democrats, and Indeed for All Americans
by John Kiriakou | Jan 15, 2018 | Featured Articles
Many Americans, at least most in my circle, are enjoying watching Donald Trump self-destruct. It’s bad for the country, but to some of us it’s as much fun as watching a train wreck. And maybe if the Democrats can get their act together, they can win back the House in...
The Man Who Captured Abu Zubaydah Says It’s Time to End His Ordeal and Send Him Home
by John Kiriakou | Aug 27, 2016 | Featured Articles
Accused terrorist Abu Zubaydah has not had his day in court yet. But earlier this week he had his day before a military Periodic Review Board, which apparently has the power to determine whether or not he should be released from the prison at Guantanamo Bay. Zubaydah...
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