John Kiriakou: Militarized Police
The time to transfer funding away from hardware and to counseling training is now.
John Kiriakou: Leaving the Democrats for Good
The author’s break with the Democrats began when Obama’s administration sought revenge on him for blowing the whistle on C.I.A. torture. Now he has many more reasons.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Pardon Me for Being Angry
Biden spurned the author’s strong case for a pardon while extending it over his entire immediate family, a crooked judge and a slew of others.
John Kiriakou: US System of Prison Injustice
As we bump up against the end of the Biden administration, here’s a look at this president’s final year in office and his criminal-justice legacy.
John Kiriakou: Cellphone Seizures & the Courts
We cannot trust that federal agents will just be looking for child pornographers or international drug traffickers when they demand access to our electronics at the border.
John Kiriakou: The FBI Deserves Kash Patel
After all the bureau’s crimes, Americans need somebody who is willing to tear this organization down to its bare studs.
John Kiriakou: Iraqi Abu Ghraib Torture Victims Win $42 Million in Lawsuit Against US Contractor
They were tortured by CACI employees over a period of several weeks using techniques including electric shock, stress positions, starvation, attack dogs, and humiliation through forced nudity.
John Kiriakou: Sebastian Gorka Is Back
This time around, Trump has elected to ignore the F.B.I. security clearance vetting process for the sworn member of Vitezi Rend, a Hungarian group that served under the Nazis.
John Kiriakou: The Pro-Trump Mood in Greece
The Greeks don’t know anything about American domestic policy; nor do they care. But they do care about war and immigration.
John Kiriakou: Gabbard Could Help Change US Foreign Policy
By John Kiriakou / Consortium News President-elect Donald Trump this week stirred up the intelligence community with his picks of former Hawaii Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as director of national…
John Kiriakou: US Prisons Still a Disaster Zone
The BOP had long been one of the biggest embarrassments in the federal government and Joe Biden’s administration hasn’t changed that.
John Kiriakou: The Slide Into Authoritarianism
The loss of civil liberties is almost always incremental. On a flight home from Greece, the author recently ran into an increasingly familiar and menacing problem.
John Kiriakou: The CIA & the 9/11 Plea Deals
If you don’t like the outcome of this odyssey through uncharted legal territory, blame the C.I.A., Mitch McConnell and almost every other member of Congress who served in 2009 and…
John Kiriakou: The South Korean ‘Spy’ Affair
Ignoring the headlines about the case, let’s look at what it is that ex-C.I.A. analyst Sue Mi Terry is actually accused of doing.
John Kiriakou: The Heroism of David McBride
By 2014 McBride had compiled a dossier into profound command failings that saw examples of potential war crimes in Afghanistan overlooked and other soldiers wrongly accused. On Tuesday he was…