Former CIA Analyst John Kiriakou on Declassified 9/11 Documents

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🗓️ 18 September 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Patreon-only: how the CIA controls the media & why former CIA directors are the same mean, loud, cigar-smoking, wife-cheating. https://www.patreon.com/posts/56317591 Former CIA analyst and case officer, who blew the whistle on its torture program, breaks down the newly declassified FBI document on the Saudi connection to 9/11 so that people who haven't been in the CIA or FBI can understand what the hell it says. The report was declassified by Biden. John Kiriakou (https://twitter.com/JohnKiriakou) is a former CIA analyst and case officer, and counterterrorism consultant. Upon leaving the CIA, Kiriakou was the first whistleblower to reveal the torture policy practiced by the US government. While employed by the CIA he was involved in critical counterterrorism missions following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. He refused to be trained in “enhanced interrogation techniques” and never authorized or engaged in these, however he is the only person to have served prison time for revealing that there was a torture program. He was the 6th whistleblower indicted by the Obama administration under the Espionage Act, a law that was supposed to punish spies not whistleblowers.

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0:48.1	none other than Leslie Lee. So we have a great show for you guys today and we are going to be talking
0:56.7	to John Kiriaku, who is a former CIA analyst and you know the good news guys is that
1:05.2	when something bad happens you want people to be held accountable or held responsible.
1:09.9	We all know and hate the CIA torture program and the good thing is that someone went to jail over
1:16.4	that. The bad thing is that the person who went to jail over that is the person who blew the whistle
1:22.2	on that, which is a pretty or well-earned thing to think about and that's who our guest is tonight
1:28.0	and he's someone who was a CIA analyst, he's a whistleblower, he's the author of several books
1:33.0	and he is one of the best sources on 9-11, pulling out of Afghanistan, things like that.
1:40.3	But sadly he's not sought out by the mainstream media so you wouldn't see him on MSNBC on CNN.
1:46.0	In fact, he's going to share some stories about how he's treated by those networks which
1:51.0	interestingly enough is not in a particularly appropriate professional way.
1:56.4	Before we bring John and Leslie, how was your week and any updates that you like to share
2:02.1	either from your personal life or political life? Well, this weekend I got to watch former
2:08.0	President Trump celebrate the 20th anniversary of September 11th by calling a freak show boxing
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