John Kiriakou & Brian Ross | Doing Time Like a Spy

Join us as former CIA analyst John Kiriakou discusses ethics, terrorism, and torture with ABC News Correspondent Brian Ross. Buy a copy of Kiriakou's new memoir, "Doing Time Like a Spy," here: www.strandbooks.com/index.cfm?...
Kiriakou spent the first eight years of his career in the CIA as a Middle East analyst specializing on Iraq. He maintained a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information security clearance. He learned Arabic and was assigned to the American Embassy in Bahrain. He eventually became CIA's Directorate of Operations. He became a counter-terrorism operations officer and worked on Eurocommunist terrorism.
Kiriakou was named Chief of Counterterrorist Operations in Pakistan. In that position, he led a series of military raids on al-Qaeda safehouses, capturing dozens of al-Qaeda fighters. Kiriakou claims to have led a raid that captured Abu Zubaydah, then thought to be al-Qaeda’s third-ranking official. After all of this John Kiriakou was sent to prison, serving a thirty-month sentence for exposing the CIA’s use of torture on Al Qaeda prisoners.
"Doing Time Like A Spy" is Kiriakou's memoir of his time in prison and is at once a critical journal of daily prison life and an intimate commentary on the federal prison system.
John Kiriakou is a columnist with Reader Supported News. He was a CIA analyst and case officer, senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, counterterrorism consultant for ABC News, and author.
Brian Ross is an investigative journalist who serves as Chief Investigative Correspondent for ABC News. He reports for ABC World News Tonight with David Muir, Nightline, Good Morning America, 20/20, and ABC News Radio. Ross' investigative reports have often covered government corruption.
Recorded May 16, 2017

[@howtomoscow4764]

This guy is great. I've watched several of his interviews. What a treasure-trove of knowledge.

[@runtheroad3]

I'm so in love with John Kiriakou - what a man

[@Curdle7]

Could listen to this guy for so long awesome

[@bitfinesse]

When I was 13 years old, I had an eighth-grade history teacher who said, “If you ever feel the desire to serve your country as an employee of the United States Government, do such an amazing job that you spend much of your life in prison.”

[@fabriciofurlani2019]

This video is so important

[@proudmasculine]

I can barely find any of this guy’s content/videos

[@cutiedoggy475]

SEE HOW DANGEROUS OUR COURT SYSTEMS ARE!!’

[@taradeleeuw2344]

Keep dropping names

[@leonardothefabulous3490]

I need to argue; the feds (BOP) does have classes and program's; Aqua culture, Horta culture, cooking, baking, house painting, music classes, and more.

[@doncapone8156]

John is awesome. Great American

[@suesochko1662]

JK should go on Joe Rogan

[@ponce1968]

It was nice to meet you yesterday John at the Barnes and Nobles Bookstore cafe in Lynnwood, WA. Thank you for signing your book The Convenient Terrorist. I gave you one of my business card, stay in touch. Good Luck on all your new endeavors. Roberto G.

[@mifnp8887]

The irony is that Brian Ross is the idiot that started this whole debacle in the first place with his "press trick" of telling John to come down to tell his side of the story. John may not hold Brian responsible, but it pisses me off!

[@madfoxcityemnau6414]

He sounds so patriotic still.

[@kewdo1137]

Why couldn't you have appealed to move the venue?

[@thothheartmaat2833]

The motion I know of for that is improper venue. If it's the proper venue I'm not sure it can be moved.

[@rossauce12]

In his other interview he said when he got fired they went to his wife and said ur with him or with us and she went with them.... or i just completely misunderstood it. It was on the podcast that starts with a k and was 3 parts

[@taradeleeuw2344]

Traffic Ivomectin?

[@taradeleeuw2344]

Did you get a stamp

[@erisd8452]

29:38 Kiriakou general opinion on the CIA

[@taradeleeuw2344]

Show us some combat moves

[@taradeleeuw2344]

How many languages do you speak

[@taradeleeuw2344]

Really

[@mikeysal231]

Dudes got massive legs.

[@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633]

Good advice. Keep talking and writing about this.

[@modularoculistsynodexperim3158]

Protonmail!!!;)

[@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633]

What about the NSA, mass surveillance?

[@taradeleeuw2344]

I don’t think you spent one day in jail

[@taradeleeuw2344]

Isn’t this something

[@MonaMarMag]

It is a big mafia with some of good nothing unsuspecting People .

[@rossauce12]

In curious how he did his time like a spy? It sounds like he just ran with the italians

[@frankeechecker]

What's with this guy? I mean, I had a mad celeb crush on him, but he's all over the map. One example is how he starts this interview. He makes fun of Russiagate with one journalist, and then AGREES with this one in the first minute of the interview.

[@erisd8452]

He agrees with EVERYTHING, including most recently that both Dem and Rep parties are "Illuminati Motherf***ers", and that the RFID chip technology is the "mark of the beast."

[@dacorny]

No oversight because committee assignments are licenses to grift.

[@taradeleeuw2344]

G5 or whatever it was

[@taradeleeuw2344]

And I have the cops muscling me and John s making millions

[@taradeleeuw2344]

The rigged questions

[@taradeleeuw2344]

You better come out of that closet

[@taradeleeuw2344]

I think he’s lazy

[@ragazzo3215]

John why even live in America? They can turn against you in a blink of an eye. The hell with America.. I’m sure you and your family can find great jobs and have a happy live abroad. I say renounce your citizenship and live a happy life. America is not worth it...to much corruption. It’s only getting worse.

[@jonnycollins0212]

THE HOST IS RIGHT THE PRESIDENT CAN DECLASSIFY WHATEVER HE WANTS ...INCLUDING TRUMP

[@cutiedoggy475]

I bet in 2019 John changed his mind about the democrats

[@StanStacks]

I bet he didn’t