I have put this program in place for a reason, and that is to better protect the American people.

And when we find somebody who may have information regarding a potential attack on America,

you bet we're going to detain them.

And you bet we're going to question them.

Because the American people expect us to find out information, actionable intelligence, so we can help them. Help protect them. That's our job.

So that was archived footage from the Oval Office of former President Bush referring to two secret

memos in 2005 that authorized extreme interrogation tactics against terrorist suspects.

As you can see, U.S. policy has been evolving to where we are for quite some time.

Hello and welcome to colonial outcast, the anti-imperialist podcast, that your

problematic uncle who still believes that the global war on terror was done for all the right

reasons will hate. I also just landed in LA two hours ago and my webcam is busted. The audio

is crazy and the internet might cut out. So apologies for the trash quality of my video.

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And we'll probably eventually get de-platform.

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Anyways, Mint Press News is going to be cutting segments from this interview to post on their own

platform because we have got a very special guest this week, and we're just going to jump right in.

So today we are joined by John Kariaku, CIA whistleblower and former intelligence analyst and operations officer for the CIA's

counterterrorism center. He was integral in exposing the CIA's enhanced interrogation program in 2007 and

did some time for it, I believe. He is now an author, books linked in the description, and host of CIA

Declassified Season 2, which is now streaming on

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