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…
CIA in Ukraine — An Ex-CIA Agent’s View
Did The New York Times publish its “The Spy War: How the CIA Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin” piece to reveal government secrets in the public’s interest? Or was it…
John Kiriakou: Dying by Callous Disregard
The stories of Lucas Bellamy and Brandon Clay Dodson show how easy it is to die a medically preventable death in U.S. prisons.
An Ex-CIA Agent Looks Back at 22 Years of Torture at Guantánamo Bay
"Guantánamo has been universally condemned by every human rights, civil liberties, and civil rights group in the world that has expressed an opinion, as well as by the United Nations,…
Newsguard: Ex-CIA Agent Calls Out Deep State for Censoring Media
By John Kiriakou / Original to ScheerPost In early November, the leadership and board of Consortium News, the independent news site, filed a major lawsuit against the federal government and…
John Kiriakou: A Victimizers’ Memorial
Another war memorial is being planned for the National Mall in Washington. This one is for the 9/11 era and it is being chaired by none other than George W.…
I Was the Only U.S. Official Imprisoned Over the Torture Program — Because I Opposed It
The only person associated with the CIA's global torture program who was prosecuted and imprisoned was the man who blew the whistle on it — John Kiriakou.
John Kiriakou: U.S. Justice Dept’s Next Victim
Daniel Duggan is facing the same extreme tactics applied to Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, Daniel Hale and others caught in Washington’s “national security” dragnet.
John Kiriakou: Banks, Felons & Jeffrey Epstein
JPMorgan Chase is accused of transferring more than $1.1 million from convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to “girls or women.” If so, where were his “suspicious activity” reports?
John Kiriakou: The Insanity of Solitary Confinement
The research on its effects on mental health is clear: Nothing good comes of solitary. It is a living example of the failure of the both the U.S. prison system…
John Kiriakou: Havana Syndrome — Paranoia or Reality?
Gang-stalking. Extremely low frequency radiation. Voice to Skull (V2K) technology. None of these were terms the author had ever heard of during his 15 years at the C.I.A.
John Kiriakou: The Threat to Journalism
C.I.A. whistleblower John Kiriakou told the Belmarsh Tribunal in Sydney, Australia on Saturday that the threat to Julian Assange is a threat to every national security reporter. (With transcript)