Ex-CIA Agent Turned Bestselling Spy Novelist Barry Eisler (Interview w/ Cenk Uygur)

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After three years spent as a CIA operative, Barry Eisler quit the espionage business to work all over the globe as a corporate lawyer. Ten years later he gave all that up as well, and followed his passion for writing. The result has been 11 bestselling spy thrillers, including his latest, “The God’s Eye View.”
In this wide-ranging interview with The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur, Eisler discusses his experiences at the CIA, his political awakening that arose from seeking out alternative media sources, why the country needs more whistleblowers like Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, how much of the surveillance state he writes about is real, and why no progressive should be supporting Hillary Clinton.
Check out Barry’s website: www.barryeisler.com
Follow Barry on Twitter: @barryeisler
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[@Lalo-fv2ne]

CIA operative interviews a CIA operative.

[@Robert4229]

As a member of the Association Of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO), I met Barry at an AFIO luncheon in San Francisco in early March. Get his book! He encouraged me to continue writing my spy series. Kudos, Barry!

[@akburst510]

Lol, Cenk seems to always participate *a lot* in his interviews...but it makes them interesting and more genuine conversations. Barry Eisler got himself a reader with me.

[@dejayrezme8617]

+William Faulkner Yeah it's a bit more like a talk show or conversation.

[@IMSiegfried]

"I was pretty well read and knowledgeable but not very thoughtful. " Oh, I like this guy!

[@Cubmaniac7]

I just noticed that everytime Cenk agrees with a point his eyes open really wide, literally.

[@Ay0ubM]

Love this guy.

[@thunderpooch]

One of the best interviews ever!

[@clockwork914]

Every moment of this interview is pure brilliance and unbridled truth❗️

[@lanahanbrian0]

This was a fine interview but they seemed to agree on everything. Just for variety's sake Cenk could you do more interviews with people you don't agree with? Like the David Duke interview. I don't agree with David Duke at all but it was interesting to see him spar verbally with you Cenk.

[@Qauzzix]

I loved this interview, I don't like to comment on youtube videos but you get my token comment for the support of this channel and this interview.

[@leslierobtduncan7823]

Please let the interviewee speak that's why he's there......yes

[@TheSpacecraftX]

He looks like Ben with brown hair.

[@steampunkstar_raisin]

It is amazing how he passed over the question about what he did at the CIA with "I did a lot of training." He also didn't answer why he left. I wonder if he is still in the CIA.

[@Qauzzix]

+Steampunk Starraisin It is interesting that you are trying to cast suspension on him, it must mean that you are a secret KGB operative.

[@steampunkstar_raisin]

+Qauzzix There is no KGB any more.

[@igorsusnjar3632]

+Steampunk Starraisin There's FSB which is pretty much the same thing

[@steampunkstar_raisin]

Igor Šušnjar I don't belong to JISS either. They are the Jesus International Security Service...

[@Qauzzix]

***** That is exactly what a KBG operative would say. But to be honest. I was just adding a stupid comment to a stupid comment.

[@garymc9576]

Great interview - fantastic discussion.

[@TheUltimateRage]

+Gary McCo So fantastic that it makes your head spin! lol j/k I agree though it was awesome!

[@kavabean]

Great programme. Barry if you have a chance please write some non-fiction. I would love to read your historical analysis of palestine / iran / latin america / etc.

[@DasGutten]

Help Iran fix his drinking habit 😂😂😂that one killed me hahahah

[@johnspace1876]

I'm pretty sure Cenk is Whoopi in a parallel universe.

[@brickan2]

A government employee can sign an NDA in the US? That's fucking stupid.

[@fusion9619]

this interview is pure gold, thank you for producing this. Really looking forward to reading his books now.

[@Santric]

Great Stage Amigo Uygur, also like the colo skim of your INTERVIEWS segment.

[@farshnuke]

This guy, I like him. Can he come back on the show later, maybe when he's got a new book to shill?

[@Lazris59]

This guy give me a Benjamin Franklin vibe, with his looks. IDK if it's the circular glasses or hair or both, maybe the nose? But I get that feel watching him.

[@GRiMHOLDx]

Dave and Ben combined into one being lol xD

[@Cubmaniac7]

"The term "politically correct" was used infrequently until the latter part of the 20th century. This earlier use did not communicate the social disapproval usually implied in more recent usage. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness#Right-wing_political_correctness

[@Nictro420]

cool interview

[@albinogurung]

Great interview guys.

[@rferreri57]

Enjoyed the interview.

[@8301TheJMan]

Cenks question about why no infiltration of al-Qaeda is due immensely to the fact that the organization was extremely clan-oriented. Everybody knows somebody- so to speak. Now that's extremely effective in being impervious to infiltration, but it also though was and still is an immense and the single primary reason why it wasn't remotely as effective as say ISIL - (Minus of course the daddy of them all- in 9/11). Another problem for al-Qaeda was how localized control was over different cells and was simply - anything but this global insurgency dedicated to destroying any and all non Muslims and Shia Muslims - the way it was always exaggerated to be by both us in the west as well as the supposed centralized leadership of the extremely fractured-faction based org in reality. ISI is far more methodical and have legit tactical training that was never remotely a pilar of what the al-Qaeda org was based on. Especially in Iraq and Syria where almost half of the fighting force, and the majority of it in Iraq happen to be in fact either secular or are small warlords who formed militias to fight off the American backed Shia war waged against the local Sunni pop for years and really to this day in many parts. I mean for fuck's sake we both oficcialy and unofficially trained these gov-backed groups who are/were nothing more than Shia death-squads and were more-over - trained by the same evil piece of shit Colonel Steel who was tarred and feathered, (never never truly punished for the atrocities he trained so many to commit and even aided though that is completely proven), referring o the death-squardsin north-western and southern central America drinking the fuckin 80's!!!!!! (Hell, TYT did as great mini- doc about 30 min long about that very topic a while back). Steel taught these guys or aiding those doing the teaching of gov back unofficial and even some opffcicial pro Shia-gov backed death squads and they were and are most certainly guilty of routinely dissapearing, (kidnapping/rendering), Sunni individuals from the west who were then tortured, falsely-imprisoned for horrifically inhumane sorts of ways for eqwually as awful in terms of the length of time with which they were held, and finally in many cases were then similarly excuted thousands of their own fuckin neighbors for half a decade or more - that are identical to the ones we backed and trained in the America's, coincidence.... i think not!. To the point where the watch-dog groups have uncovered massive craves where almost every male were riddled with holes created by fuckin drill-bits, cigarette burns, and had merely one bullet whole in the back of their fuckin heads! And the'se human-rights and watchdog orgs even published finds a while back where torture was/is being employed on such a mass scale by the Shia-Government and those unofficial d-squads - that it was such a massive problem it was without doubt worse than anything similar systemic torture-regimes that existed at the peak of the Iraqi Saddam - run government's depravity, years ago! And these militias aren't beholden or 'loral" to ISI, they are pragmatically making the logical decision that ISIS rule - assisted by them themselves, was far more inhumane and preferable for the local Sunni populated in the west of Iraq than anything US rule was nor and certainly far better for them than the Shia run Maliki Iraq government and even the official Iraqi-controlled military!

[@el80ne]

+Jesse Haffner Regardless, John Walker Lindh, a clueless kid from Marin County California, was able to not only penetrate Al Qaeda but met Bin Laden himself. Like they mentioned on this clip, if John Walker Lindh could do it then there's no reason deep cover CIA couldn't do it too. There's just not a whole lot of appeal to going deep cover into Islamic culture shock like that.

[@Cubmaniac7]

He looks like someone put glasses on William Wallace from Braveheart :D

[@roymerritt6992]

As a veteran and someone who worked at the NSA part of my military time my objection to Snowden was the fact of where Snowden went to when he absented himself from the country two of the most totalitarian regimes in the world specifically China and the Russian Federation.

[@Verto9999]

He got his book rights back by pulling some james bond tricks..meh seemed like that line was funnier in my head than after writing it.

[@Tsnore]

"...reparations"?

[@parisovide2712]

tell me im not the only one getting a slight stoner vibe off of Barry

[@ambassadoroftruth99]

100% pothead

[@SuperSpasticNinja]

Great guy. The John Rain series are pretty fucking awesome.

[@brun0re1s]

very good interview...

[@LucasZawacki]

Cool interview.

[@deepaksithu]

Ben needs to up his hair game

[@4235douglas]

Why does Cenk almost never covers whats going on around the world on the main TYT channel? He seems very aware of what's going on but for some reason they only cover national news..

[@skipnoo]

Yeah I wonder that to they rarely do oversea stories unless it somehow reflects a current event in the US. I take it's because the presidential race is going on right now.

[@TheInterceptor12]

@@skipnoo as it turned out, there were much more fundamental problems.

[@Aleksamson]

''Even handed'' ? Well, that is a good thing if you hear it as ''fair'' But as ''neutral'' it's not always good.

[@mikereif7240]

He was John Lennon's body double but he got shot anyway.

[@dazmin100]

He has great hair

[@Dethkloz123]

Markiplier's father?!

[@nabiji]

Barry - I'm buying your book.

[@ambassadoroftruth99]

Cenk needs to do less talking when interviewing someone. We all know his liberal/socialist world view.

[@giggles332]

Cenk “I said nah to the cia” Uygur

[@Nitznet]

Disappointment!!

[@michaelroben5607]

A great interview, Ill be buying the book, seems like just like the type of political fiction that I love to read.

[@jialianglow]

What does amicably re-aquire mean??

[@bladeshards5065]

+Jia Liang Low (TeddyStarcraft) Amicably means friendly/peacefully (basically). So it means to re-acquire/take back in a peaceful way.

[@xMI55IONx]

some good shit

[@apestasguey]

This interviewer talks about himself too much. I'm otta here

[@davidfeld22]

Damn comma bro! That was awesome.

[@tobyfunk6858]

Wow, this guy sounds 100% like the actor Josh Lucas. Interesting interview, good work as usual TYT.

[@TurkiyeCumhurbaskani]

his novel becoming a TV series with Keanu Reeves playing in 2017, wow

[@TurkiyeCumhurbaskani]

he was a TYT viewer, cool

[@Rickswars]

tyt's channel is fake fraud shit and cenk's day is coming, he will colapse lie cnn.

[@greyyhart596]

I wanted a leftist thriller and i found a big one!

[@eitelvonschoenaich-rateke5047]

00:06 Cerebral palsy?

[@nicenonya3]

AL-CIA-DUH