"CIA's Motive Was REVENGE" - CIA Whistleblower BREAKS DOWN Post-9/11 Interrogation TORTURE Tactics

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🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Ex-CIA officer John Kiriakou exposes how legal interrogation was abandoned for revenge-driven torture post-9/11. He reveals chilling CIA practices, internal resistance, and why speaking out led to his arrest under the Espionage Act.

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0:00.0	Listen, Patrick, it is like a kick in my gut to have to compliment the FBI.
0:05.4	But if there's one thing that they are really good at, it's interrogation.
0:11.6	And we should have just let them do their job.
0:14.0	Legal interrogation.
0:15.3	Correct.
0:15.6	Not creative CIA, the stuff that you guys...
0:18.0	Precisely.
0:19.3	Really? So you give them credit on.
0:21.3	They've been doing it since the Nuremberg investigation.
0:23.9	What is the different tactics they use interrogation from the CIA?
0:27.5	Oh, yeah. Well, that's a good question. It's the most basic one. Their tactic is to sit
0:33.7	across the table like you and I are doing right now. Treat each prisoner with respect.
0:38.5	Maybe you give him an apple or a cup of tea or a cigarette.
0:43.8	And you establish this rapport, this relationship.
0:47.5	Eventually, he's going to talk to you.
0:49.6	Eventually.
0:50.8	For the CIA, there was this element of revenge.
0:53.5	9-11 was the worst intelligence failure in the history of the Republic.
0:57.4	And so there was this idea that we had to avenge the deaths of 3,000 Americans.
1:02.8	We had the deaths of 3,000 Americans on our shoulders.
1:06.5	And so you want to go in there with fists flailing.
1:10.3	And that just didn't accomplish anything.
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