The CIA Officer Who Went to Jail For The Torture Program | John Kiriakou | Ep. 309
The Team House
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🗓️ 17 November 2024
⏱️ 194 minutes
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John Kiriakou is an American author, journalist and former intelligence officer. Kiriakou is a columnist with Reader Supported News and co-host of Political Misfits on Sputnik Radio. He was jailed for exposing the interrogation techniques of the U.S. government. He was an analyst and case officer for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and a consultant for ABC News. He was the first U.S. government official to confirm in December 2007 that waterboarding was used to interrogate al-Qaeda prisoners, which he described as torture. Kiriakou is a founding member of the organization Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. In 2012, Kiriakou became the only CIA officer to be convicted for exposing the CIA's enhanced interrogation program, having passed classified information to a reporter. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 30 months in prison.
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| 0:41.3 | Special operations. |
| 0:45.6 | Covert ops. |
| 0:48.2 | Espionage. |
| 0:50.2 | The team house with your host, Jack Murphy and David Park. |
| 1:01.2 | Hey, everyone. Welcome to episode 309 of The Team House. I'm Jack Murphy here with Dave Park. |
| 1:06.8 | And our guest on tonight's show is retired CIA officer John Kiriaku. |
| 1:12.1 | He spent time in the agency working the Iraq desk, working in Greece, and then, you know, had some legal problems that we'll talk about in a little bit. |
| 1:23.8 | And we're excited to have him here on the show and really talk about all of this and maybe get a different perspective on some of these topics than what we usually hear. |
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