Articles by John Kiriakou
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The Heroism of David McBride
John Kiriakou | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
16 May 2024 – By 2014 McBride had compiled a dossier into profound command failings that saw examples of potential Australian war crimes in Afghanistan overlooked, and other soldiers wrongly accused. On 14 May he was sentenced to nearly six years in prison.
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Reflections on the Deep State’s Media Watchdog Tool
John Kiriakou | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
29 Nov 2023 – NewsGuard at first glance looks like a media watchdog organization, a group that seeks to keep misinformation and disinformation out of the mainstream. That notion is quickly dispelled, however, as soon as one takes a look under the hood.
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Torture at Guantanamo
John Kiriakou | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
25 Sep 2023 – I Was the only U.S. Official Imprisoned over the Torture Program — because I Opposed and Blew the Whistle on It
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CIA Vault 7 Leaker Found Guilty–What Did He Actually Reveal?
John Kiriakou | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2022
26 Jul 2022 – CIA veteran John Kiriakou breaks down some of the most important elements of Vault 7—the biggest leak in CIA history—allegedly divulged to WikiLeaks by another former CIA officer.
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Robert Parry Exposed CIA Criminality and Set the Gold Standard for Investigative Journalism
John Kiriakou | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2022
22 Jul 2022 – “American Dispatches: A Robert Parry Reader,” is a compendium of the most impactful and important pieces of investigative journalism published by Nat Parry’s father Robert, the eminent reporter from the Associated Press, Newsweek, and PBS, and the founder of Consortium News.
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The Curious Case of PayPal and Consortium News
John Kiriakou | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
3 May 2022 – The independent news website has been banned from taking donations on PayPal without so much as an explanation. The reason might be as simple as it is chilling.
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Sex Crimes of the CIA—Unreported, Unrepented, and Unpunished
John Kiriakou | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
27 Dec 2021 – The CIA rivals the Vatican in covering up sex crimes against children and then protecting the members of its organization who commit them.
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Biden’s Nominee for CIA Director
John Kiriakou | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
11 Jan 2021 – If there must be a CIA, I feel better with Bill Burns being in charge of it.
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Before You Give Your Computer to the Geek Squad
John Kiriakou - Reader Supported News,
11 Jun 2018
8 Jun 2018 – We all know that we live in a surveillance state. Now we have something else to worry about. The question remains whether Geek Squad employees are secretly working for the FBI. It appears that they are, and this would be a violation of the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment guaranteeing due process.
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John Kiriakou - Reader Supported News,
30 May 2016
CIA employees taking gifts from Hollywood producers for giving them, in the case of Zero Dark Thirty, classified briefings on the bin Laden raid is bad enough. The CIA director leaking classified information to the producers is worse. Therein lies the problem with the relationship between the CIA and Hollywood. There’s little-to-no oversight. And when rules and laws are broken, nobody has to pay the piper.
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John Kiriakou - Reader Supported News,
2 May 2016
A policy of torture, a policy of holding people incommunicado in secret prisons, a policy of rendering people to third countries to undergo even more brutal torture, does nothing but serve as a recruiting tool for terrorists. Torture doesn’t prevent terrorism, it causes it.
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John Kiriakou – The Guardian,
12 Aug 2013
Shame on this president for persecuting whistleblowers with a legal relic, while administration officials leak with impunity. In early 2012, I was arrested and charged with three counts of espionage and one count of violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act. (I was only the second person in US history to be charged with violating the IIPA, a law that was written to be used against rogues like Philip Agee.)
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