CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou: GOP won't do real intel oversight

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🗓️ 20 January 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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For $5 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and a chance to have your comment read on the show in the Absurd Arena at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Click here for the full interview with former CIA counterterrorism officer John Kiriakou: https://open.substack.com/pub/usefulidiots/p/extended-episode-cia-whistleblower?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web After CIA officer John Kiriakou blew the whistle on US torture, no one in the CIA was arrested for their crimes. Except, of course, John Kiriakou. John became the sixth whistleblower indicted by the Obama administration under the Espionage Act. He served 23 months in prison as punishment for his opposition to the Bush administration’s torture program. This week, he joins Useful Idiots to speak (freely this time) about the torture and war crimes of the US Government, the sickening purpose of Guantanamo Bay and its continuing crimes against humanity, and the hardest question of all: Who’s worse – The CIA or the FBI? Don’t worry, John’s got a lot of dirt on each. It’s one of the most jarring, sickening, revealing, scary, and funny episodes of Useful Idiots, which is why you’re probably going to want to watch… …the extended interview, in which Kiriakou uncovers the CIA’s sadistic psychedelics testing, the hawks in the mainstream media who are gunning for war with China, and his last words spoken to Keith Olbermann and Alec Baldwin: “Fuck you, Olbermann.” and “Fuck you, Baldwin.” And don’t miss this week’s Thursday Throwdown on Hollywood's New "It" Couple: Volodymyr Seanpenskyy. It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Useful Idiots. I'm your host Katie Halfer.
0:07.6	And I'm Heather Host, Aaron Metzik. This week we're doing a special interview only show,
0:12.8	but don't worry because it's such a great interview. It's with the wonderful John Curiapu and we're
0:17.4	awesome providing you with the Thursday Throwdown, which we like to do every week. That's for our
0:23.1	subscribers at usefuleasatsubstack.com. What we're doing is we're doing a Thursday Throwdown
0:29.2	about Zylensky and Sean Penn. So make sure you subscribe Usefuleasatsubstack.com and here is our
0:38.0	interview with John Curiapu. So excited to have on John Curiapu. He's a former CIA
0:48.3	counterterrorism officer and a former senior investigator with the Senate Farm Relations Committee.
0:53.2	John became the six whistleblower indicted by the Obama Administration under the Ethnian Ajax,
0:58.4	a law designated to punish spies. He served 23 months in prison as a result of his attempt to oppose
1:04.7	the Bush administration's torture program. He also has a new substack called Loud and Clear. Welcome,
1:10.8	John. Thanks so much for having me. It's good to see both of you. So John, a lot of what we want to
1:15.1	ask you about. Let's start with among the new victories that these rebel Republicans won for holding
1:22.1	out their vote for Kev McCarthy was the creation of a new what's being built as a church committee,
1:26.8	a new church committee to investigate the investigators, the intelligence agencies. What do you make of
1:32.4	this investigation? Do you think it can avoid being strictly partisan as some Democrats are alleging
1:40.0	it will be? And what would you want to see this committee focus on? Oh, great questions. I actually
1:46.9	don't think that this committee can be nonpartisan for a couple of reasons. The most obvious being that
1:52.8	it appears that the Democrats aren't going to participate. We don't really know yet who the members
1:59.4	are going to be, but I was talking to somebody who's associated with this new subcommittee this morning
2:05.2	as a staff member. He told me to expect Congressman Thomas Massey, the libertarian Republican from
2:13.4	from Kentucky. And he also warned me that what Jim Jordan, the new subcommittees chairman
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