CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou: "They DESTROYED Epstein Files”
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté
Useful Idiots, LLC
4.6 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2025
⏱️ 87 minutes
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00:00 Intro
01:46 Corporate Dems can't handle Zohran
09:48 Trump accidentally praises Al Qaeda
16:41 Kamala Harris' unaired Subway Take
21:31 Charlie Kirk blames the Texas floods on DEI
25:08 John Kiriakou interview
26:33 Why did Trump flip on Epstein?
27:26 Did the FBI destroy files?
30:02 Why Trump won't release the files
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35:10 Mossad-CIA relationship?
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| 1:00.8 | Hello and welcome to Useful Idiots. I'm Katie Halper. I'm Mary Matey. Thanks so much for being here. |
| 1:06.0 | Our website, as always, is Useful Idiots Podcast.com. Today we have a doubleheader for you yet again. We're going to be |
| 1:12.9 | covering, of course, the non-event that was the Epstein Files, the Trump administration |
| 1:20.0 | claiming after basically so many months and years of hyping up the Epstein files this week saying, |
| 1:27.3 | actually nothing to see here. |
| 1:28.7 | Well, former CIA officer John Kariaku will be here to give his take on what's going on. |
| 1:35.0 | It's always fascinating talking to John. He has amazing stories. And also, it should be known, |
| 1:40.4 | people may be interested in knowing, that John is the only person to spend any time in |
| 1:45.9 | prison over the CIA's torture program. This is a program in which he did not participate, |
| 1:52.1 | but he blew the whistle on it. So, of course, in the United States, you don't ever get in |
| 1:57.0 | trouble for committing crimes. You get in trouble for exposing them. Well, speaking of exposing crimes, and the second half of the show, we'll also hear from |
| 2:05.1 | Marta Habrischko. She is a returning guest. She is a visiting assistant professor at Clark |
| 2:12.4 | University, and she's Ukrainian, and she's very critical of the Ukrainian government, also very critical of the Russian government. |
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