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John Kiriakou spent 14 years at the CIA and two years in a federal prison for blowing the whistle on the agency's use of torture. He served on John Kerry's Senate Foreign Relations Committee for two years as senior investigator into the Middle East. He writes and speaks about national security, whistleblowing, the prison-industrial complex, and foreign policy, and is an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and winner of the 2015 PEN Center USA First Amendment award.
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Thursday, July 7, 2016
How Brexit Will Affect U.S. Foreign Policy The mainstream media has made a great deal of Brexit being the result of British reaction against immigration. That's a shallow and not terribly analytic assessment. The truth is that Washington selfishly needs a unified EU to help fight its wars around the world. It needs the British to lean on other European countries to do its bidding.
Thursday, July 7, 2016How Brexit Will Affect U.S. Foreign Policy The mainstream media has made a great deal of Brexit being the result of British reaction against immigration. That's a shallow and not terribly analytic assessment. The truth is that Washington selfishly needs a unified EU to help fight its wars around the world. It needs the British to lean on other European countries to do its bidding.
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Thursday, February 23, 2017
Milo Yiannopoulos: A Danger to Our Children Milo Yiannopoulos ought to be silenced -- not because he is a "conservative provocateur," as the mainstream media describes him. He ought to be silenced because he and his opinions are a danger to our children.
Thursday, February 23, 2017Milo Yiannopoulos: A Danger to Our Children Milo Yiannopoulos ought to be silenced -- not because he is a "conservative provocateur," as the mainstream media describes him. He ought to be silenced because he and his opinions are a danger to our children.
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Sunday, September 4, 2016
Pleading Alford Is a Last Line of Defense Against the Death Penalty Alford pleas have become crutches for mediocre defense attorneys or for those who just don't care about defending clients facing criminal charges. The sad truth is that many attorneys simply don't want to do the hard work of defending their clients, and it is hard work to defend people charged with serious crimes.
Sunday, September 4, 2016Pleading Alford Is a Last Line of Defense Against the Death Penalty Alford pleas have become crutches for mediocre defense attorneys or for those who just don't care about defending clients facing criminal charges. The sad truth is that many attorneys simply don't want to do the hard work of defending their clients, and it is hard work to defend people charged with serious crimes.
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Wednesday, March 10, 2021
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Poison in Prison A private food service company "accidentally" sold dog food to feed prisoners mis-marked as "ground beef for tacos." There was no punishment for the company or its executives.
Wednesday, March 10, 2021JOHN KIRIAKOU: Poison in Prison A private food service company "accidentally" sold dog food to feed prisoners mis-marked as "ground beef for tacos." There was no punishment for the company or its executives.
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Sunday, March 12, 2017
The Deep State, Donald Trump and Us There very well could be a deep state. We certainly have the infrastructure for one. And there's no easy response to it. With the president himself apparently worried about a deep state, complaining to our elected officials will likely get us nowhere. There's no easy way to resist it, although we must.
Sunday, March 12, 2017The Deep State, Donald Trump and Us There very well could be a deep state. We certainly have the infrastructure for one. And there's no easy response to it. With the president himself apparently worried about a deep state, complaining to our elected officials will likely get us nowhere. There's no easy way to resist it, although we must.
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Sunday, December 11, 2016
Petraeus Must Be an Example, Not a Sacred Cow Unlike national security whistleblowers during the Obama administration, Petraeus was not charged with multiple felonies. He instead took a plea to one misdemeanor count of unauthorized removal and retention of classified information, despite the fact that the Justice Department said that Petraeus's leak, if disclosed, would have caused "exceptionally grave damage" to the national security.
Sunday, December 11, 2016Petraeus Must Be an Example, Not a Sacred Cow Unlike national security whistleblowers during the Obama administration, Petraeus was not charged with multiple felonies. He instead took a plea to one misdemeanor count of unauthorized removal and retention of classified information, despite the fact that the Justice Department said that Petraeus's leak, if disclosed, would have caused "exceptionally grave damage" to the national security.
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Monday, December 10, 2018
Alexis Tsipras' Failed Attempt at Democratic Socialism The prime minister who lost his bluff with international creditors in 2015 is now striking another radical pose by giving holidays to assassins, writes John Kiriakou.
Monday, December 10, 2018Alexis Tsipras' Failed Attempt at Democratic Socialism The prime minister who lost his bluff with international creditors in 2015 is now striking another radical pose by giving holidays to assassins, writes John Kiriakou.
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Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Carly Fiorina Just Doesn't "Get It" on Torture Regardless of the reasons for Fiorina's ill-informed and poorly-conceived position on torture, the fact that she doesn't seem to know or care about the very basics -- that torture is illegal, that it didn't work, and that it didn't save lives -- makes her unfit to lead the country and to set the policy on this abomination.
Tuesday, October 6, 2015Carly Fiorina Just Doesn't "Get It" on Torture Regardless of the reasons for Fiorina's ill-informed and poorly-conceived position on torture, the fact that she doesn't seem to know or care about the very basics -- that torture is illegal, that it didn't work, and that it didn't save lives -- makes her unfit to lead the country and to set the policy on this abomination.
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Thursday, February 25, 2016
America's Killer Prisons If the people running prisons know there's a problem and do nothing about it, is that not manslaughter? Is that not depraved indifference? A person who should be alive is not -- all because of the incompetence or apathy of prison administrators. This isn't an issue of who did what or who broke what law. Every American deserves decent health care. That includes our prisoners.
Thursday, February 25, 2016America's Killer Prisons If the people running prisons know there's a problem and do nothing about it, is that not manslaughter? Is that not depraved indifference? A person who should be alive is not -- all because of the incompetence or apathy of prison administrators. This isn't an issue of who did what or who broke what law. Every American deserves decent health care. That includes our prisoners.
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Monday, June 21, 2021
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Perverted Prison Justice Here's an example of how the prison rape-elimination law gets violated; and not by other prisoners.
Monday, June 21, 2021JOHN KIRIAKOU: Perverted Prison Justice Here's an example of how the prison rape-elimination law gets violated; and not by other prisoners.
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Thursday, November 9, 2017
Is the Law More Important to the Court Than It Was to Manafort? In the United States we have a presumption of innocence. We also have attorney-client privilege. We live in a society where we at least used to believe that it was better for a guilty man to go free than for an innocent one to go to prison. It seems that that has changed. And we're a lesser country for it.
Thursday, November 9, 2017Is the Law More Important to the Court Than It Was to Manafort? In the United States we have a presumption of innocence. We also have attorney-client privilege. We live in a society where we at least used to believe that it was better for a guilty man to go free than for an innocent one to go to prison. It seems that that has changed. And we're a lesser country for it.
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Thursday, June 23, 2016
Jeffrey Sterling, a Poster Boy for CIA Discrimination and National Security Abuse Sterling has appealed his conviction to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, an action that likely will take years. He has two-and-a-half years to go on his sentence, and with good behavior and halfway house, he'll likely be released by December 2017, well before the Circuit Court issues a ruling. He passes his days with murderers, child molesters, and drug kingpins. There's no "justice" in that.
Thursday, June 23, 2016Jeffrey Sterling, a Poster Boy for CIA Discrimination and National Security Abuse Sterling has appealed his conviction to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, an action that likely will take years. He has two-and-a-half years to go on his sentence, and with good behavior and halfway house, he'll likely be released by December 2017, well before the Circuit Court issues a ruling. He passes his days with murderers, child molesters, and drug kingpins. There's no "justice" in that.
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Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Let Jeffrey Sterling Go Sterling will be sent to a halfway house 45 miles from his home, and BOP regulations forbid him from driving. Furthermore, the halfway house is in the center of the neighborhood that is the scene of St. Louis's current riots. It's not the best place to be an unemployed African-American man on federal probation right now.
Wednesday, September 20, 2017Let Jeffrey Sterling Go Sterling will be sent to a halfway house 45 miles from his home, and BOP regulations forbid him from driving. Furthermore, the halfway house is in the center of the neighborhood that is the scene of St. Louis's current riots. It's not the best place to be an unemployed African-American man on federal probation right now.
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Saturday, December 5, 2015
Buy Today, Kill Tomorrow at least 2,043 people on the terrorist watch list legally purchased weapons in the United States between 2004 and 2014. We know they filled out necessary paperwork with gun dealers. What we don't know is how many people on the list purchased weapons from private gun dealers or owners. They don't have to keep records. Who could possibly support this arrangement? Just a little outfit called the National Rifle Association.
Saturday, December 5, 2015Buy Today, Kill Tomorrow at least 2,043 people on the terrorist watch list legally purchased weapons in the United States between 2004 and 2014. We know they filled out necessary paperwork with gun dealers. What we don't know is how many people on the list purchased weapons from private gun dealers or owners. They don't have to keep records. Who could possibly support this arrangement? Just a little outfit called the National Rifle Association.
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Wednesday, July 25, 2018
The Case for Stripping Former Officials of their Security Clearances Former CIA agent John Kiriakou argues that no former intelligence official should be allowed to keep their security clearances when they leave government, especially if they work in the media.
Wednesday, July 25, 2018The Case for Stripping Former Officials of their Security Clearances Former CIA agent John Kiriakou argues that no former intelligence official should be allowed to keep their security clearances when they leave government, especially if they work in the media.
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Thursday, November 19, 2015
How the Government Made Me a Dissident it's clear that our government demonizes people who disagree with the official line. Things got bad for anyone who disagrees with the official line right after 9/11. We slid down the rabbit hole with the passage of the so-called PATRIOT Act. Enacted six weeks after the terrorist attacks, the law legalized actions against American citizens--including Internet surveillance and phone taps--that had previously been unthinkable.
Thursday, November 19, 2015How the Government Made Me a Dissident it's clear that our government demonizes people who disagree with the official line. Things got bad for anyone who disagrees with the official line right after 9/11. We slid down the rabbit hole with the passage of the so-called PATRIOT Act. Enacted six weeks after the terrorist attacks, the law legalized actions against American citizens--including Internet surveillance and phone taps--that had previously been unthinkable.
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Monday, January 30, 2017
Torture Is a Monster and a Terrorist Lover Trump has surrounded himself with people who support torture. He has said that he wants to re-institute the torture program. He has said that he wants to reopen black sites -- secret prisons -- overseas. We have to take him at his word. And we have to fight him. We must take to the courts, shout to the press, and march in the streets. We are on the right side of history here. We cannot remain silent.
Monday, January 30, 2017Torture Is a Monster and a Terrorist Lover Trump has surrounded himself with people who support torture. He has said that he wants to re-institute the torture program. He has said that he wants to reopen black sites -- secret prisons -- overseas. We have to take him at his word. And we have to fight him. We must take to the courts, shout to the press, and march in the streets. We are on the right side of history here. We cannot remain silent.
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Saturday, April 13, 2019
The Railroad That Awaits Julian Assange The Eastern District of Virginia is known as the "Espionage Court" for a reason. No national security defendant has ever won a case there. Never. And Judge Leonie Brinkema reserves all national security cases for herself. She has Julian's case, she judged my case, as well as the case of CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling, and we know that she has also reserved what will be the Ed Snowden case for herself.
Saturday, April 13, 2019The Railroad That Awaits Julian Assange The Eastern District of Virginia is known as the "Espionage Court" for a reason. No national security defendant has ever won a case there. Never. And Judge Leonie Brinkema reserves all national security cases for herself. She has Julian's case, she judged my case, as well as the case of CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling, and we know that she has also reserved what will be the Ed Snowden case for herself.
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Thursday, October 8, 2020
What Would Biden's Foreign Policy Look Like? Just Look at His Supporters John Negroponte, the Darth Vader of U.S. foreign policy, and a bevy of Republican former intelligence and interventionists have their reasons for liking the former VP.
Thursday, October 8, 2020What Would Biden's Foreign Policy Look Like? Just Look at His Supporters John Negroponte, the Darth Vader of U.S. foreign policy, and a bevy of Republican former intelligence and interventionists have their reasons for liking the former VP.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Washington and Lee: What's in a Name? It's one thing to oppose Donald Trump because you don't like his policy toward Iran or Cuba, or to disagree with him on education or his refusal to recognize the problem of climate change. It's an entirely different thing, however, to once again pit Americans against each other because of the color of their skin or because of one's own feelings of racial superiority.
Wednesday, December 12, 2018Washington and Lee: What's in a Name? It's one thing to oppose Donald Trump because you don't like his policy toward Iran or Cuba, or to disagree with him on education or his refusal to recognize the problem of climate change. It's an entirely different thing, however, to once again pit Americans against each other because of the color of their skin or because of one's own feelings of racial superiority.
