By John Kiriakou With permission by the author Published by the Washington Post I was inside the CIA’s Langley, Va., headquarters on Sept. 11, 2001. Like all Americans, I was traumatized, and I volunteered to go overseas to help bring al-Qaeda’s leaders to justice. I headed counterterrorism operations in Pakistan from January to May 2002. […]
By Peter Van Buren The United States over the weekend denied travel to a former British ambassador, Craig Murray, who was also a British diplomat for some 30 years, and is the author of several books.
The Bill of Rights Defense Committee and Defending Dissent Foundation has the immense honor to bestow the January 2016 Patriot Award on John Kiriakou. In 2007, Kiriakou appeared on ABC when he told the world three things that would change both our national discourse and his life forever—the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had tortured prisoners, torture […]
By John Kiriakou The FBI has, yet again, dropped the ball. For all the billions of dollars in their budget, for all the metadata they and their intelligence colleagues are collecting on every American citizen, and for all the years they’ve had since the September 11 attacks to recruit informants to infiltrate terrorist groups, two […]
By John Kiriakou Good people can disagree about guns.
Editor’s Note: On Nov. 16, PEN Center USA, the West Coast branch of PEN International, gave former CIA officer John Kiriakou its First Amendment Award for his role in exposing waterboarding as torture used during President George W. Bush’s “war on terror.” Kiriakou then faced retaliation which led to a 30-month prison term for revealing […]
Ελεύθερος είναι από χθες ο Τζον Κυριάκου μετά από δύο χρόνια στη φυλακή του Loredo. Ο πρώην πράκτορας της CIA, που κατήγγειλε τα φρικτά βασανιστήρια εναντίον υπόπτων για τρομοκρατικές ενέργειες βρίσκεται στο σπίτι του, μαζί με την οικογένεια του.
By Andrew Jerell Jones, The Intercept John Kiriakou is the only CIA employee to go to prison in connection with the agency’s torture program. Not because he tortured anyone, but because he revealed information on torture to a reporter.
On the floor of House of Representatives on November 17, Virginia Democratic Representative Jim Moran put forward a stinging rebuke of the “selective prosecution” of former CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou. He asked President Barack Obama to pardon Kiriakou and called the fifteen-year CIA veteran “an American hero.”
Του ΜΙΧΑΛΗ ΙΓΝΑΤΙΟΥ Ξεκινώντας το Σάββατο 12 Ιουλίου από την Ουάσιγκτον για το Λορέτο της Πενσιλβάνια, όπου και οι ομώνυμες φυλακές, τα αισθήματά μου ήταν ανάμεικτα.