We don’t need the CIA - The Chris Hedges Report

Chris Hedges and John Kiriakou discuss the CIA, how it has evolved, how it sees its mission, what it does, how it works, and the effects of its clandestine operations around the globe.
John Kiriakou worked for the CIA from 1990 to 2004, first as an analyst, and later as a counterterrorism operations officer overseas in Bahrain, Athens, and Pakistan, where he was the CIA’s Chief of Counterterrorist Operations.He became the sixth whistleblower indicted under the Espionage Act by the Obama administration and was sent to prison for two and a half years.
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[@marcusbillings1644]

The CIA's approach changed long, long before 9/11. I would point you towards the JFK assassination as one such jumping off point.

[@klam77]

A long time far right agency. Also customs and border agency. Also FBI. Combine that with one acre one vote due to federal and state government Senate rule combine with gerrymandering.... Game over

[@davidevans6618]

SILVER Backs took the shot almost simultaneously. Thin air government approved counterfeit backed by nothing doesn't even meet the definition of money. Explain that to a public that doesn't realize squirrels don't pay rent because nobody has psychologically groomed them to be servants of an inanimate object. Gotta peel all the layers to get to the truth.

[@barquerojuancarlos7253]

Did we listen to the last few minutes of the video? They address Oliver Stone's hypothesis on the assassination of JFK

[@barquerojuancarlos7253]

@@klam77... So should we make a bad tasting stew by throwing everything into we don't like into it? Do the political parties really need intelligence operatives to gerrymander a district? Both parties do it, although Republicans far more than the Democrats.

[@ledaswan5990]

How do you know more than the guy who worked for the CIA? Did you also work for them?

[@michaelbartlett6864]

No agency of the government should be allowed covert control of military assets or assassination squads! Secrecy is the cause of most problems in the world today. Kennedy understood that and laid it out in one of his speeches.

[@EnzoVecchiaio]

Hard for me to imagine most of our current legislators saying "no" to the CIA. Bad career moves don't interest these folks.

[@michaelbartlett6864]

@@EnzoVecchiaio True that, the Dems are just as pro-war as the Reps!

[@a-testforthefuture1817]

And look at what happened to Kennedy get it now! Not a country! it's a corporation, they didn't tell you? mmmm'm You think you just fell out the Womb, and no body is in charge!!! There's a bigger plan for you? Do you have a birth certificate and a w2 form , because if you do , they own you! Good Morning! Crisis acting and hit squads= your government! they didn't tell you! Infantree of life, and they want your soul! Same boys that dropped your twin towers, how do i know? Who is the only one that can orchrastrate it? in the best country in the world, right? Fbi must of been on coffee break, right? or , they are - in on it! Right!!!! Bluebloods using red bloods to screw over the RED blooded people, over and over and over! Using HAARP controlled by DARPA and paid for by AARP is what you are seeing now!!! Military intelligence- is two words combine, that can't make sense! Isis is a United states computer program being played out in real time, with real people, and they have no clue, masterplan!!!! Good luck, and Hug your children! we will be taking over from here!!!

[@aptorres01]

And look what happened to him.

[@michaelbartlett6864]

@@aptorres01 Yes, L@@K what happened to him and a host of others who tried to change things!

[@patrickmccann3788]

My father worked in the CIA, and helped bring in the Brazilian coup in 1964. He was also in Vietnam and Laos in the 70s. Took care of him in his later years, but hated what he did.

[@liberty-matrix]

"No matter how paranoid or conspiracy minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you can imagine". ~William Blum

[@denverfletcher9419]

@@lucay2222 No, not even close. If anything Blum understated the case.

[@treuky]

I kind of agree with you because as a young man when the internet first started coming out I started getting and looking for documents that was classified I find a lot of weird things when I was young.. I would say is definitely way beyond your imagination..

[@chrisstclair3954]

Hedges knowledge and wisdom is such a rare commodity in the US.Grateful that he is still on youtube.

[@jgalt308]

and what has been the benefit of all this supposed knowledge and wisdom?

[@anthonywindley6588]

CIA couldn't tell President Trump what to do.. That's why CIA along with DNI, NSA, DOJ, & FBI who are the Deep State wants Trump out the White House..

[@compassioncampaigner728]

@@jgalt308 Snarky........but not entirely wrong. Because the voting proletariat is mindlessly preoccupied with tribal loyalty to the duopoly plus their material gains. Our empire is doomed.

[@Rubylove48]

It’s not as rare as it appears, it’s just that people with real wisdom, courage and experiential knowledge are silenced by the ruling elite so it’s a daily struggle for those people to stay free, working but still remaining under the radar.

[@syourke3]

@@jgalt308 Would rather know or not know about the CIA criminal history?

[@ttystikkrocks1042]

Kudos to TRNN! This is the kind of conversation that every American needs to take the time to listen to.

[@CIA.U.S.A]

I agree with 💯

[@katrinweigel3796]

And not only Americans…

[@grandwonder5858]

CIA = crimes & Instigations of America

[@tuforu4]

AMERICANS forget REAGAN had the mujhadeen taliban in the white house yrs ago for TEA i guess.

[@OlliGarch]

Sadly most won’t

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[@Jonathan-dd7rq]

Is he stupid?

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What is a mat cleaner?

[@albertoromo2012]

Great comment. Heartfelt for all of us conscientious citizens. Thanks

[@oneblueorange]

The idea that CIA was ever subject to meaningful oversight is pure disinfo.

[@QuintessentialJenesequa]

Exactly. This guy is so full of it I didn't even listen very long

[@Altanon]

"The CIA: Because wars don't just start themselves." ~ ELB

[@BobJohnson648]

Good slogan for them...just add the CIA's phone number

[@Molue_]

"They're Coup-Coup for Regime Change!"

[@jacktrotter-vm3nj]

Thousands stolen I've had thousands of dollars stolen from my bank account, direct deposits made by the i.r.s. I did my homework and had a zoom meeting with an agent. After this meeting concluded he said, "this (tracer) could take at least 120 day's. Please examine the (roman fasces) on USA Senate walls. Then please read Daniel chp 2-9? We were decived by our government to inflict mass casualties upon a already very oppressed people's who did nothing to U.S. Please read (Twin Towers NYC was a mossad operation) What happen nexted, Afghanistan, numerous overthrow of various Middle Eastern States. Why under pretense to destroy an enemy created by USA intelligence community for invasion, where we left billion's in military hardware too the very people we were hunting. Bagram airbase is now a chinese military advanced airbase. george w. bush jr. buy's 300k hectares in (Paraguay) centered on the world's quite probable last and largest (aquifer) covering at least three S.American countries. Who was in charge of the Twin Towers security, (MARVIN BUSH), the the president's brother, oh yeah! The USA has been positioned by a (beast system) for exploitation to manuver nation's into a ten-toe global economic union prison camps? What's coming, a strong delusion that people will embrace. Revelation 6:2 And I looked, and behold, a white horse! And its rider had a bow, and a crown was given to him, and he came out conquering, and to conquer

[@SMacCuUladh]

Human history would suggest otherwise.

[@LaRoucheisright]

How the CIA took control of the deep state. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJ-5fIuirq-ojpI

[@bicyclist2]

This is the real history not taught in school or the media. Not enough people listen to Chris Hedges. Please keep up the good work. Thank you.

[@jacktrotter-vm3nj]

Thousands stolen I've had thousands of dollars stolen from my bank account, direct deposits made by the i.r.s. I did my homework and had a zoom meeting with an agent. After this meeting concluded he said, "this (tracer) could take at least 120 day's. Please examine the (roman fasces) on USA Senate walls. Then please read Daniel chp 2-9? We were decived by our government to inflict mass casualties upon a already very oppressed people's who did nothing to U.S. Please read (Twin Towers NYC was a mossad operation) What happen nexted, Afghanistan, numerous overthrow of various Middle Eastern States. Why under pretense to destroy an enemy created by USA intelligence community for invasion, where we left billion's in military hardware too the very people we were hunting. Bagram airbase is now a chinese military advanced airbase. george w. bush jr. buy's 300k hectares in (Paraguay) centered on the world's quite probable last and largest (aquifer) covering at least three S.American countries. Who was in charge of the Twin Towers security, (MARVIN BUSH), the the president's brother, oh yeah! The USA has been positioned by a (beast system) for exploitation to manuver nation's into a ten-toe global economic union prison camps? What's coming, a strong delusion that people will embrace. Revelation 6:2 And I looked, and behold, a white horse! And its rider had a bow, and a crown was given to him, and he came out conquering, and to conquer

[@lars277]

What good does this 'truth' do if you have no plan to undo the truth? Chris Hedges is just another political rift profiteer, like Michael Moore, Bernie Sanders, Richard Wolff, and Jimmy Dore. They just sell books and speaking dates and performances. You can tell that Chris Hedges was a trained Christain clergy, he foams at the mouth once he gets going on an indoctrinating rant. Wat too much talk, and NOT enough action. There is nothing but death voting for the donor owned GOP, Democratic, No Labels, and Libertarian parties. There is truth in action at the Green party, the only REAL progressive party that has ZERO donor money. Where these so-called Progressives. They are status quo political rift profiteers. They want ZERO change because they would lose profits if they accepted the truth. You want change? Join us at the Green Party.

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[@LaRoucheisright]

You've made me really sick to my stomach.

[@Mr.Nichan]

@@LaRoucheisright I don't really know what he's saying, but it does sound like it might be sickening.

[@finished6267]

it's an AI bot

[@WolfMage888]

Thank you Chris and John for what you are doing, continue to shine the light!

[@lynnjacobs9885]

Fascinating interview, which confirms many of my worst fears about the CIA.

[@uradragon]

DHS and it's Stasi organization are unaccountable as well. You don't have to look too hard to find Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely. There is constantly dirt beneath our feet.

[@jgalt308]

I guess that's what "journalism" consists of these days...confirming your fears. Seems that's what the "government" is doing also.

[@douglascarlson9006]

HOW CHRIS HEDGES FAILED US When will someone bigger than I have the balls to call this man out for going back on his word? Many times he has urged us to resist tyranny, even when things look bleak ... but now that tyranny is in our face, he's MIA ... Let us review a few of his more revealing quotes: "I don't think we're going to stop the pandemic and the mutations until everybody gets vaccinated" ... (we can't vax ourselves out of this pandemic - AND HE KNOWS IT!) BTW, he has refused to comment or stand with the working class against the illegal and unconstitutional vax mandates and passports ************** "Let us stand up and resist so future generations will at least say ‘they tried.’ We cannot do this alone ... together we have a chance" ... BTW, he has refused to comment on THE GREAT RESET, The World Economic Forum and the book THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION ************** In a 2020 interview, he said he told indigenous pipeline protesters to "park your cars in their path, remove the engines and walk away" ... BTW, he did not even mention the Canadian trucker convoy until a March 2022 interview with Jimmy Dore - one month after the protests actually ended ... ************** In his AMERICAN SADISM speech, he revealed his disdain for those of us who now openly question the motives and tactics of our elected officials ... He said the loss of the elite's credibility "has given rise to spontaneous groups, as well as the lunatic fringe that embraces conspiracy theories" ... ************** From his book WAGES OF REBELLION, he said: “I do not fight fascists because I will win. I fight fascists because they are fascists” ... BTW, he will now only consent to occasional "hands-off" interviews with persons who will NOT challenge him: Amy Goodman, Katie Halper, Briahna Joy-Gray, Krystal Ball, Kyle Kulinski ... ************** After a 2014 speech, he was asked to comment on 9/11 and insulted our collective intelligence by saying "Bush was probably just asleep at the wheel" ... ************** But he knows he can maintain his place in the independent media food chain by: 1) ripping on AOC 2) talking about Assange 3) talking about Snowden 4) talking about Donzinger 5) talking about Ukraine I miss the pre-pandemic Chris Hedges ... many times these past 10 years I went to bed with his words ringing in my ears ... he's said many awesome and memorable things that helped me understand and accept our current predicament ... and although his work with prison inmates is laudable, it is not nearly significant enough to offset the effects of his selective silence on these devastating working class issues ... he's no longer a truly fearless activist, just another cherry-picking elitist!

[@anthonywindley6588]

Edward Snowden spoked about the entire Intelligence Community..

[@clearvision10]

#1 terrorist organization in the world. # 2 is Mossad of Israel.

[@JamieNixx]

Thank you for covering this, Chris. Not many people brave enough to report on the CIA.

[@NikolaAvramov]

Funny how Chris Hedges didn't mind when CIA was starting a war which he agitated for by lying and slandering to get people killed. Because he was paid to do it.

[@psier11]

Very brave. I remind the very strange death of Robert Ludlum and, after, his wife too who was a witness

[@Johnconno]

His wife was not a witness. We did the Ludlum sanction and that was it.

[@DaKingisDead]

We all know what happened to Gary Webb, as well as countless others who were of no significance to the media consumption ecosystem.

[@destroyingangel14]

One thing is daunting in U.S. Geo /political....., Whatever the probbblm, First course of fix is ; Apply blinkers to dead horse constituents..... This is getting a little too obvious....⚙️♟⚙️🖋

[@cookielapaz8927]

John put himself into danger to expose the truth. Thank you!

[@j.jester7821]

When you realize what the actual goals of the CIA, you see they have never failed, but succeeded in achieving the outcomes they wanted.

[@imquantum8009]

Exactly. This guy is such a bullshitter.

[@ChulhyunAhn]

If their actual goal is to get taxpayers to pay for pointless spy games, screw up the world in process, and covering those up in a never ending loop, you're correct. They're really good at their job and never fail.

[@kathycollett4318]

Chris Hedges is a national treasure of courage, intelligence, and conscience.

[@hugaflower]

💯%

[@donq2957]

Im a lot smarter than he is. Go fund me.

[@bettydoughtery3920]

Agree

[@petercamacho310]

The idea that the CIA "got it wrong" or "dropped the ball" is B.S. comes from the idea that the CIA's intentions are altruistic, good guys that made a few mistakes. Wrong! Their goal is almost always the exact opposite of what they claim. The best line is, "they are gangster for Wall Street." Just like our democracy is a front for the Oligarchs. The CIA's stated goals is a front for the public, Politicians, and newbe recruiting purposes. In the back channels they are buying and selling drugs and military Arms to support clandestine operations. They are doing what ever it takes to secure economic advantage for the corporate elite of the world. They remove and replace leaders that dont comply, care nothing about the people of those countries. Conflict is more weapons sales They are doing the exact opposite of what the postcard of what American represents. Of course they killed JFK! The CIA in conjunction with other world intelligence agencies like MI6 and Mossad are operators for the Elite and the People are just one of life's obstacles.

[@theadventuresofkiwi5472]

He is pretty goddamn smart and he might even be courageous, but, he isnt above lying to maintain idelogical continuity.

[@detritiv0re144]

Sounds like how the CIA was always portrayed in Call of Duty. Basically a black ops death squad.

[@anthonywindley6588]

CIA Special Force named SOG fought in 🇻🇳 Vietnam..

[@satta2023]

Only in COD they portray the CIA as a rightous guardian of freedom that kills the bad guys. In real life, many times, they are killing the good guys, and they themselves are the bad guys. COD is CIA propaganda! Raising a generation of kids to think war is good vs evil, us vs them. Oh ya, and war is fun!

[@didyasaysomethin2me]

Be careful. You might get people openly debating whether Call of Duty is "social engineering" caged as entertainment. Or it could just be that too many people (armchair warriors, SJWs, etc) watching mainstream media are losing sight of where reality ends and the game script begins. Potayto potahto? Tomayto tomato? Maybe toss in some Onion for good measure and call the ensuing shit show "dinner theater"? I don't know about you but anymore I have to wonder how much of anything is skew(er)ed. Is it any wonder that people are clamouring over whether there's any meat to it? 🤔 TL;DR: If bad puns were a crime, would the CIA still exist? Would it have ever existed?

[@detritiv0re144]

@@didyasaysomethin2me This is good satire.

[@didyasaysomethin2me]

@@detritiv0re144 So... no (black site) prison for me? That must be so bittersweet for the CIA.

[@institute.cultural.healing7879]

Excellent interview. Thank you for bringing his on your show and sharing with us

[@NorthernObserver]

This post is invaluable. And it explains a lot.

[@soniksocialist]

Thanks John for your sincerity and willingness to pull the skullduggery to the light. This shits been happening for far too long. Peace

[@strongfoot2009]

*Every human being should work within the laws of the land and anyone who breaks them should be punished including the politicians, the law enforcement agencies, the billionaires.....et* .

[@clintholmes2061]

"Every human being should work within the laws of the land" Meh. I'm going to smoke my weed anyway.

[@strongfoot2009]

@@clintholmes2061 : Go ahead and enjoy your insanity. Lol.

[@clintholmes2061]

@@strongfoot2009 Reefer madness here I come!

[@massivecumshot]

"The LAW" is whatever the richest, most evil mofo around SAYS it is.

[@glintinggold]

More authoritarianism isn't going to make things better!!! Punishment is not effective anyway, but working to make the world and our country a better place by example might reduce the collective inclination towards violence and away from civil liberty.

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[@psjasker]

Chris Hedges is one of the few honest journalists left in the world. However, I’d like to hear the Mea Culpa for his work at the NYT, am agency mouthpiece.

[@stevebabs4555]

I worked for them for over ten years as a contractor. They deserve to be and it is in the best interest of the American people that the CIA be disbanded

[@montrelouisebohon-harris7023]

That's what I think and I believe they've been corrupt for 60 years or more and the FB. I is corrupt as well and both of them don't need to be defended but actually abolished..

[@greggibbs5288]

The CIA work for the global elites, they definitely do not work for we the people!

[@robertandthecavalry2062]

Which basically confirms, that like most western institutions of the sort, their hierarchy has log ago gone into the mode where they protect themselves. Knowing full well that they do not serve people, nothing short of direct political targeting of them will get rid of them. Great to see democracy in such great shape...

[@stevebabs4555]

@@lucay2222 😄Id kick that sick lie filled f**king ladder so hard, and id be blood thirsty as the bodies rained down. End that sinful Babylon. The disgrace is in that place.

[@wendellrider1212]

AMEN!!

[@geraldtrudeau3223]

So, the CIA stop receiving oversight, and criticism, following 9/11. In other words,... Mission accomplished!

[@ewalker1057]

Building Seven

[@flossietube2065]

👍

[@robertbartlett1958]

@@ewalker1057 No jet fuel needed

[@puketv1548]

Precisely!

[@bzaarr84]

@@flossietube2065p

[@chema_lopez]

thanks for the video

[@grothd09]

I’m glad John is against the organization now but this whole “I promise we were good before 9/11!” is bogus.

[@nemohalperin]

The quality of the output on this channel has been exceptional. This is a cornerstone piece in terms of advancing truthful understanding of what was and is going on inside America. Thank you for the subjects you are covering and the way in which you are bravely shining light on some of the murkiest areas of government and society.

[@jacktrotter-vm3nj]

Thousands stolen I've had thousands of dollars stolen from my bank account, direct deposits made by the i.r.s. I did my homework and had a zoom meeting with an agent. After this meeting concluded he said, "this (tracer) could take at least 120 day's. Please examine the (roman fasces) on USA Senate walls. Then please read Daniel chp 2-9? We were decived by our government to inflict mass casualties upon a already very oppressed people's who did nothing to U.S. Please read (Twin Towers NYC was a mossad operation) What happen nexted, Afghanistan, numerous overthrow of various Middle Eastern States. Why under pretense to destroy an enemy created by USA intelligence community for invasion, where we left billion's in military hardware too the very people we were hunting. Bagram airbase is now a chinese military advanced airbase. george w. bush jr. buy's 300k hectares in (Paraguay) centered on the world's quite probable last and largest (aquifer) covering at least three S.American countries. Who was in charge of the Twin Towers security, (MARVIN BUSH), the the president's brother, oh yeah! The USA has been positioned by a (beast system) for exploitation to manuver nation's into a ten-toe global economic union prison camps? What's coming, a strong delusion that people will embrace. Revelation 6:2 And I looked, and behold, a white horse! And its rider had a bow, and a crown was given to him, and he came out conquering, and to conquer

[@steveconrad8857]

I never understand why I never hear a former CIA employee say I deeply apologize for working for the CIA in for the things that were done

[@julianciahaconsulting8663]

are there really any legit "former CIA employees" though, especially those that go public on talk shows about their CIA days?

[@stephanriley5793]

I agree and that's why I think that John K. is lying

[@donw3861]

Ex CIA all want to stay alive and hopefully collect overly generous retirement.

[@dylannaenzo9737]

Narcissists never apologize, because they don't really believe they are wrong. No empathy whatsoever.

[@michaelschnittker7388]

I worked for CIA for over thirty years. Never saw ANY criminal act, not one, not even an officer lying about his expenses on a tdy. CIA culture does not tolerate any crime by employees, ZERO. I worked in CIA's Counter Terrorism Center starting very late 2001, after 9/11. We chased terrorists all over the world, worked with probably hundreds of various foreign liaison elements from organizations like CIA to police to military in literally every country on Earth. EVERY step we took, everything, was clearly with the Inspector General office of CIA, the lawyers. Nobody farted without getting their sign off. After 9/11, the CIA had Lethal Findings from the President so there was legal authorization to kill people but it had to be approved AT LEAST at the DCI/CIA level, the boss, or by the President. What you think you know is baloney.

[@militantessayons]

Great commentary

[@deadwooddramaqueens8951]

Outstanding!

[@kassfischer5146]

Very surprised at Hedges’ laziness on the JFK assasination research: Mark Lane’s book: “Plausible Denial”, David Talbot’s “the Devil’s Chessboard, and Michael Collins Piper’s book “Final Judgement” are all worth checking out.

[@skyval6359]

And , don't forget Bobby Kennedy Jr.'s " American Values .. What I learned from my Family " His youtube show of that name stated that his uncle was getting prepared to disband the CIA and then was assassinated .

[@xiloette]

The Guns of November 12 hr documented audio program is one of Dave Emorys greatest accomplishments

[@GrandmaCathy]

Reading The Devil's Chessboard like WTAF? Dulles lived a long time apparently. I guess it's true only the good die young.

[@JaneRakali]

Living in Australia, where the CIA drove the coup in 1975, I'd have thought they'd been successful. Following disasters like Iraq and Afghanistan though, you have a point. Thanks for the excellent interview.

[@glintinggold]

I just read an article in the Diplomat that says the Queen had more to do with it than the CIA.

[@numbersix8919]

The CIA has been extremely successful all around the world. So in a way this guy is covering for the CIA.

[@megthornton1371]

The Queens orders

[@stephaniecarrow4898]

Iraq and Afghanistan were not disasters for the MIC, who reaped billions and keep the CIA in business. (I didn't know they couped Australia ~ wow.)

[@numbersix8919]

@@stephaniecarrow4898 Indeed you are correct. See Chomsky's "worthy" vs "unworthy" victims.

[@LotusLady9]

Thank you!

[@wozzacervelo2702]

Excellent interview ☮️

[@aircrew705]

"When everything the American people believe is a lie, then we will have done our job." - William Casey, CIA Dir. 1981

[@dankoston2904]

It would have been nice if they did mention that the CIA has infiltrated and been involved in all the major media. They're in control of what is said and what is not said.

[@JayaMadhavadas]

The CIA is a Rogue - PURE EVIL -- Organization--

[@JasonPelish]

Ťyg😢

[@dankoston2904]

@@JasonPelish I am discusted with the CIA. These traitors to America could care less about this country just like ever other part of the government. We had been under the war Powers act. Since the civil war. The CIA is made up from a bunch of Rich boys from Harvard and Yale who do nothing but cause problems start wars have their own army And brought drugs into this country.

[@dankoston2904]

@@JasonPelish I'm angry at what the government has done to the people of this country. Not only had they stolen all the land, all the water ways, and all the wealth, but under the trading with the enemy act they've even declared the people the enemy. Our government is not ours but they are foreign agents only interested in their own selves and their own wealth. They don't care about the American people in the least little bit. I consider all these agencies traders and foreign agents. Here's the evidence.kzbin.info/www/bejne/pILHXqNnaqqpqqssi=rv2L9R0wjegu5J5m kzbin.info/www/bejne/pILHXqNnaqqpqqssi=rv2L9R0wjegu5J5m

[@athenakoios2418]

Brilliant as usual , thank you Chris.

[@NikolaAvramov]

Funny how Chris Hedges didn't mind when CIA was starting a war which he agitated for by lying and slandering to get people killed. Because he was paid to do it.

[@faticus5369]

Thanks! Couldn’t agree more.

[@senscommun1792]

Thank you❤

[@rashadibn]

This was an interesting session that definitely highlighted some salient points about the CIA. I enjoy Chris Hedges and have almost read all of his books. However I think it would be unwise to take everything at face value about the CIA kind of stumbling into mismanagement, assassinations, and lack of oversight since 9/11. The predecessor to the CIA, the OSS founded in 1942, under Roosevelt was the same criminal, entity. It allowed drugs to be sold into poor African American neighborhoods to fund the secret war against communism in Europe. There is no evidence to suggest this has ended. This is about institutionalizing plunder, murder, exploitation, and sin in secrecy, and will not end just because you close the door of the CIA. I hope that Chris could one day interview someone like Doug Valentine, I think personally his CIA knowledge is more holistic and comprehensive.

[@therealnews]

Thanks for the feedback, Rashad!

[@rashadibn]

@@therealnews Thanks for having the interview, love your work!

[@Bisquick]

EXACTLY this Rashad. Reminded of Michael Parenti, an excerpt from his piece Mystery: How Wealth Creates Poverty which I think can be easily extrapolated in its direct and plain language to illuminate your more than apt contention (highly recommend anyone interested in this angle to check out the full piece which fleshes all this out far more, merely trying to condense the point I think Rashad is getting at): _In their perpetual confusion, some liberal critics conclude that foreign aid and IMF and World Bank structural adjustments “do not work”; the end result is less self-sufficiency and more poverty for the recipient nations, they point out. Why then do the rich member states continue to fund the IMF and World Bank? Are their leaders just less intelligent than the critics who keep pointing out to them that their policies are having the opposite effect?_ _No, it is the critics who are stupid not the western leaders and investors who own so much of the world and enjoy such immense wealth and success. They pursue their aid and foreign loan programs because such programs do work. The question is, work for whom? Cui bono?_ _The purpose behind their investments, loans, and aid programs is not to uplift the masses in other countries. That is certainly not the business they are in. The purpose is to serve the interests of global capital accumulation, to take over the lands and local economies of Third World peoples, monopolize their markets, depress their wages, indenture their labor with enormous debts, privatize their public service sector, and prevent these nations from emerging as trade competitors by not allowing them a normal development._ _In these respects, investments, foreign loans, and structural adjustments work very well indeed._ _The real mystery is: why do some people find such an analysis to be so improbable, a “conspiratorial” imagining? Why are they skeptical that U.S. rulers knowingly and deliberately pursue such ruthless policies (suppress wages, rollback environmental protections, eliminate the public sector, cut human services) in the Third World? These rulers are pursuing much the same policies right here in our own country!_ _Isn’t it time that liberal critics stop thinking that the people who own so much of the world---and want to own it all---are “incompetent” or “misguided” or “failing to see the unintended consequences of their policies”? You are not being very smart when you think your enemies are not as smart as you. They know where their interests lie, and so should we._ Conversely, William Casey, -demonic arcon- CIA Director under Reagan, also comes to mind, in his hubris unambiguously describing the intended efficacy of Operation Mockingbird, _"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."_ Surely he's giving two big thumbs up in hell, which at this point is probably hard to distinguish from the world he helped create for us...ubiquitously inundated via a technologically mediated digital spectacle that effectively keeps us systemically paralyzed in an individually insulated social miasma of reaction, tragedy, and farce... But uh...pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will...or something lol... Actually, if anyone's interested, I'm recalling Parenti's lecture on Conspiracy and Class Power gets at the CIA angle far more directly and I think is also a great breakdown of the social gaslighting and correspondingly cultivated ideological lacunas/compartmentalization that constantly erode our confidence/imagination to act/organize effectively toward any sort of collective escape velocity by reinforcing a broader historical understanding and continuity which necessarily breaks down and overrides any artificially imposed mental barriers through a concrete existential "dasein" communion with the larger scope of history and by extension each other, ie anchoring of our unique experience situated within this particular time/space to a broader class consciousness - in the same sort of guiding world spirit principle of universal justice Chris so eloquently speaks to, but rooted from a more marxist perspective of dialectical/historical materialism, if that made any sense lol...: youtu (dot) be/t21UZxRYYA4 _"The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make and could just as easily make differently."_ - the late great David Graeber *Socialism or [continued] barbarism.*

[@ishastrega6851]

I would go farther back to the MKUltra and the beginning of drug and human trafficking for profit by the Alphabet Agencies. Besides Doug Valentine, Peter Dale Scott has written extensively on this subject. At about the same time, the IMF/WTO/World Bank were just getting ready to asset strip countries through debt. It's a continuum of criminality that people refuse to see.

[@jillwklausen]

This is a good read. A Timeline of CIA Atrocities "CIA operations follow the same recurring script. First, American business interests abroad are threatened by a popular or democratically elected leader. The people support their leader because he intends to conduct land reform, strengthen unions, redistribute wealth, nationalize foreign-owned industry, and regulate business to protect workers, consumers and the environment. So, on behalf of American business, and often with their help, the CIA mobilizes the opposition. First it identifies right-wing groups within the country (usually the military), and offers them a deal: 'We'll put you in power if you maintain a favorable business climate for us.' The Agency then hires, trains and works with them to overthrow the existing government (usually a democracy). It uses every trick in the book: propaganda, stuffed ballot boxes, purchased elections, extortion, blackmail, sexual intrigue, false stories about opponents in the local media, infiltration and disruption of opposing political parties, kidnapping, beating, torture, intimidation, economic sabotage, death squads and even assassination. These efforts culminate in a military coup, which installs a right-wing dictator. The CIA trains the dictator’s security apparatus to crack down on the traditional enemies of big business, using interrogation, torture and murder. The victims are said to be 'communists,' but almost always they are just peasants, liberals, moderates, labor union leaders, political opponents and advocates of free speech and democracy. Widespread human rights abuses follow. "This scenario has been repeated so many times that the CIA actually teaches it in a special school, the notorious 'School of the Americas.' (It opened in Panama but later moved to Fort Benning, Georgia.) Critics have nicknamed it the 'School of the Dictators' and 'School of the Assassins.' Here, the CIA trains Latin American military officers how to conduct coups, including the use of interrogation, torture and murder." Search any of the text to find the full article that outlines a myriad of atrocities. KZbin doesn't allow external links and will delete this comment if I try to share it, but the url contains huppi and kangaroo, so you know you've found the referenced document.

[@sanm2010]

This is chilling to think that the CIA has been so inhuman.

[@AJdet-2]

Inhumane? The CIA has been very humane. Look what humans do to each other. You won't see that in the animal kingdom

[@notsocrates9529]

This guy is no saint, have you read what he did to people? The roach story, or the eyeball?

[@howard1764]

Predictable they were set up by Reinhardt Gehlen Hitlers super spy along with many other top Nazis.

[@Howl-Runner]

​@@notsocrates9529rumor only I can never find the links.

[@asnark7115]

It's the only agency in the US with a body count approaching the CDC's.

[@fedinvestment]

Great interview

[@asahmed1980]

See all. That is what having a set on you looks like. Thank you Max. Legend.

[@ericashugart8859]

What a great educational tool for people. I didn't realize how prolific Hedges was. Always love his written reports/pieces.

[@theresacroghan6]

His books are awesome

[@therealnews]

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[@trevorsmith8950]

I became a monthly supporter today. Thank you for platforming Chris Hedges and activists from the prison system.

[@mklizzar]

fact CIA is arm of hte satanic illuminati

[@NikolaAvramov]

You could've had someone with integrity that didn't build a career by lying for CIA psi ops host this show. Chris Hedges built his career by slandering in tune with CIA. He literally worked on getting civilians killed as a hired gun.

[@Madasin_Paine]

A double dealing two faced doubt fomenting "former" spook. Truman wrote shortly that he never intended the ©|A to be covert war operational, after the US was couped and their President, JFK, was assassinated by the usual conspirators, foreign and domestic, that Prez Truman, of the Pendergast mob friendly set, that the DNC bosses illegally inserted and railroaded H. Wallace, the likely successor to FDR, much the way BSaunders was railroaded. See what D Valen¡ne writes and says about the Phoenix and Condor programs of the 60-70$s and how they arise again not only internationally but nationally. Thus this false narrative of this guest, as usual, offers revision history that favors his ol employer, The ©onpany. They didn't turn after $eptember 11,it merely ratcheted up the oppression and money laundering capabilities of their war profiteering one world chaotic disorder of The PPP Party. Hedges MUST KNOW BETTER. And of course, this episode would pas |$a®∆€£ First censors, or so experts and officials say.

[@therealnews]

@@trevorsmith8950 Wow, thanks Trevor. We couldn't do it with folks like you!

[@jjutt87]

Great question Prof Hedges 13:36

[@Agapy8888]

Chris Hedges is amazing.

[@boombot934]

Dear Chris! Please, make a program about the War on Drugs.

[@krumbleme2]

How much are you willing to contribute to help fund it?

[@darkfielddiggermicrosafari]

The war on drugs will never succeed until the CIA is "smashed to a thousand pieces and scattered to the winds". They fund terrorist operations, and destabilization of nations etc by the huge amounts of drugs they sell ... They are the most shameful cabal of evil that the USA has ever unleashed on the world.

[@davidhutchinson5233]

Excellent as always. Thanks Real News, Mr. Hedges and Mr. Kiriakou. Extremely informative.

[@menudobucket9837]

As usual: another great interview..

[@lizmcgrail884]

I love the beginning of your show ..

[@katpuss6564]

WHY DOES THIS NEVER MAKE FRONT PAGE NEWS. Please everyone, share it on every platform you know.

[@rhymeister]

Look up Operation Mockingbird, but if you already know about it, do you really believe it's no longer an active op???

[@katpuss6564]

@@rhymeister Of course it's still active. Even more so now. NOTHING that comes out of the MSM is the truth ALL IS MANIPULATED AND DESIGNED BY THE CIA. As Goebbels said; "Let me control the PRESS and I will control the HERD." As can be identified on any MSM comment sites - the HERD is well and truly CONTROLLED. Three of them to one of us. The world is doomed.....

[@rhymeister]

@@paulthomas963 Mainly controls!

[@steveleach4973]

Because CIA "Manages" the MSM

[@Erik_Thygesen]

Because the CIA runs the news.

[@jaspercollins7005]

What will the CIA do now that their opium fields have been shut down in Afghanistan as this was purported you be the black funds the CIA for their black sites and operations?

[@cathjj840]

They're doubling down on Colombia - took things over from the cartels and are handling it directly for themselves (so I've heard). Tho' maybe things will be different with the new 'leftist' president.

[@JoeSmith-xm3wb]

To Continue funding their "special activities" just go back to selling more (newest made drugs) mixed drugs to our own people in all our cities "on the coo" lo-low, as usual?!

[@NotAPacifist825]

They just received undisclosed amounts buried in all the Ukraine money.

[@robertbartlett1958]

Were the fields never replanted after the death of Achmed Walli Kharzi?

[@clairemendresse9709]

I can answer that question for you... They have replaced heroin with the much cheaper and easier to produce and transport Fentanyl ....... This is why its taken over the other opiates and seemed to arrive overnight. no1 cause of death in past year over there in the USA.

[@larrywright1589]

A person running for public office is either the most selfish person or the most selfless person. The trick for you is to find out which is which.

[@kathleankeesler1639]

Thank you.

[@jasonlacroix6083]

30k views. I can't understand why Chris doesn't get more attention. This was a great interview. Disturbing information about what our twisted leadership does with our tax dollars. I've long thought we are a diseased society and this one just provided more proof of that.

[@lah6739]

He doesn't get attention because he tells the truth.

[@jasonlacroix6083]

@@paulthomas963 fill me in. Use your big boy words.

[@bigdaz7272]

Thank you both for the work you do/have done to shed light on the utter despicable immorality and criminality that runs rampant above any meaningful accountability all throughout our Governments and its alphabet agencies. These people need to be in jail serving Life Sentences not even in charge their own Bowel movements for the shit show they have left us all with.

[@jasonlacroix6083]

If a couple million of us each chose a target for termination, we could take care of this in a weekend. And come Monday morning, there would be no one left to arrest, prosecute or judge us. There would be lots of good jobs available too.

[@deedee7652]

Um, they haven't left.

[@niconine268]

Yes exactly. Execute the pathetic governments & their alphabet agencies

[@jacobusackermann5254]

As a South African, when I was a youngster I always admired the CIA. As a matter of fact I looked up to them as people with integrity, honesty and highly intelligent agents. With this eye opening interview, I lost all my respect for this organisation. What a disgrace! I feel sorry for the ordinary American citizen to have these bad guys in their midst.

[@rekocastren923]

Very interesting and enlightening...We need more voices like John, from the belly of the Beast!

[@donaldcarpenter5328]

"The WORST MISTAKE I ever MADE as POTUS"-Harry S. Truman of his signing the CIA into existence.

[@eljerc5894]

And he had a career of mistake after mistake

[@odikaiopolis2832]

TRUMAN was a mass murderer........

[@blackfreud9048]

Until these ghouls are prosecuted and imprisoned, “oversight” is a euphemism…..

[@davidsalcido383]

“CIA: CRME 😊pay’s BIG TIME!!! 💀🇺🇸💀🔥💀🇺🇸💀🔥💀🇺🇸

[@davidsalcido383]

“Ex-CIA Director Mike Pompeo: ‘We Stole, 🤥 We Cheated 🤥 We Lied!”😶 😈💀🐀💀🔥💀

[@niteriderband4713]

I cant believe the ex-analyst cant see that the goal in Afghanistan was to make money for the US weapons manufacturers and when Soviets left, so did the US government's capitalists' interest

[@numbersix8919]

This guy ain't no commie.

[@NotAPacifist825]

That wasn't the only goal.

[@calicocat8213]

The foremost goal was, by radicalising the Islamic youth into becoming the Mujahedeen and interfering with the work of the Afgani government in Kabul (there's a mention of 1977, while the Soviet intervention took place in December of 1979), making the running of the country next to impossible, was enticing the Soviet Union into a military incursion (on the request of the Afgani government). A carefully laid out trap which, in the decades that followed, misfired.

[@NotAPacifist825]

@@calicocat8213 true. But who needs Afghanistan when we can manufacture consent for our real target, Iran. Trifecta of Russia China and Iran: Iran Spokesman Calls Stabbed Rushdie ‘A Pawn Of Empire’

[@fauziachoudhry5312]

Assange was indicted for stating that US wars is just a means of wealth transfer from the tax payer to MIC.

[@user-pz1bc1sn9i]

Thank you Chris mayer az

[@wendellrider1212]

Truth!

[@hashkeeper]

youre both heroes, thank you for standing up. I feel government agencies need to be held accountable by open sourcing what information they can every 6 months, and a heavy release every year. else we just hold back all of this information that really shows how unaccountable and lazy agencies can get over the years. the public engages with its government with information off by decades

[@glintinggold]

Somehow my confidence in government agencies is on the wane. Perhaps we should start over again with a clean slate.

[@kidrengo]

I was disappointed that two highly lauded "heroes" of First Amendment rights, one a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and the other a CIA agent turned whistle-blower ended their discussion with a resounding mutually agreed upon dismissal of any notion of CIA involvement in JFK's assassination, even joking and laughing about one of the most shocking, heart breaking events in our nation's history. Truly left a foul odor.

[@jaefrmbk2k]

they clearly said they didn't find any evidence re: JFK assassination so go find the evidence yourself then

[@jasonlacroix6083]

The founding fathers would be shocked at what this nation has become. And they would wonder why the citizens have let it happen.

[@karenhertz3258]

@@kidrengo I was also disappointed & shocked by that strange ending. I am guessing that that last comment was "cover" to dissuade anyone nefarious from having a "smoking gun" justification for "going after" Hedges and/or Kiriakou. But I may be wrong..

[@henrykujawa4427]

This is one of the most fascinating interviews I've ever seen Chris Hedges do. I guess I'm particularly fascinated because I've been a fan of "spy" shows & movies since the mid-1960s, and in the late 80s-early 90s wrote a series of "crime comedies" that at times involved members of the CIA and FBI. Even back then, in my stories, the FBI tended to look down on the CIA as being "less moral". These days, both organizations have proven to be so. Also, funny enough, John Kiriakou actually reminds me of a friend I used to work with in the 1980s, who was very friendly and good-natured, and used to joke in ways that suggested he had some kind of "secret" connections he wasn't allowed to talk about. Watching this interview is almost like having a reunion with my old friend, who I lost touch with back in the 90s.

[@eljerc5894]

Pretty romantic they take pedophiles and blackmail them😢

[@tabo01]

There is a reaons they have TV shows showing the FBI as heroes

[@josephcaron5680]

Fascinating.

[@michaelkenney2857]

Thanks!

[@movado242]

Great Interview up until the last sentence hard to believe knowing what you know that you could not think it possible they had role

[@42Mrgreenman]

I'd pretty much agree with you, but the problem seems to be that with something as radical as the killing of a president, if they did play a role, anyone who knew about that role and any documents that existed would most likely have been expunged until there were no documents and few enough people who knew to the point where it would basically be the individual equivalent of a self-imposed lobotomy to cover it up. There are enough questions and inconsistencies around that incident by people who they couldn't or didn't realize needed to be neutralized that makes it hard to believe they played no role... If someone asked me to commit such an act, it would be tasked to outsiders out of public view (like the mafia, as they mention) who would be in position to be silenced soon after the deed was done and the particulars would only be known by those who would be entrapped to the highest degree and prevented from revealing anything (I'd guess maybe a half-dozen or so people), even on their deathbed for fear of reprisal against relatives... I haven't heard John or Chris lay out in detail how much research they have actually done on the incident and how they drew their conclusion so I could be speaking out of my ass but, an analyst (like John) is probably not privy to the highest levels of clearance, but we know that Ed Snowden basically had carte blanche to sift through their files (or at least their operation names and file creation dates) being in charge of "Information sharing" between the agencies, which gave me some pause, but by the time he was employed, the documented information may have already been destroyed, so even that doesn't rule out that they may have had a role... It's such a damn tangle of human history that we will probably never know, but in their defense, I've played the video game that was created to simulate the assassination and it SEEMS doable if INSANELY difficult on the first try...so in the end I can't draw any hard conclusions, but as what you would call an information or education junkie I'm always on the lookout and the more time that passes and more information that comes out, I become more and more doubtful that the CIA were blameless when it comes to that particular incident...just my two cents...sorry I can't give you anything more substantial, but if I know one thing about information, it's that one must be EXTREMELY careful not to let personal bias intrude on the weighing of information and it's value...(Though as a human, it's near if not impossible to do so given the time from the event and that I've only been around for 37 years)...

[@GladysAlicea]

Especially since after the CIA's secret mission in Cuba to overthrow Castro without telling JFK, he said he'd break the "CIA into 1000 pieces." If that's not a reason for Dulles the traitor to assassinate him, then what is?

[@deoncarstens6536]

First time I ever listened to this guy, he is brilliant. Love his reporting.

[@kwakkers68]

If you're new to this type of coverage, try Michael Parenti material - old now, but he's very, very good! Lots of content on this platform

[@PhilMcMahon-xf1uw]

"Gangsters for Wall Street" - the CIA summed up in four words.

[@kp6215]

So glad to see Chris has pivoted to a website news.

[@AnnieT369]

You don't need the CIA nor the FBI.

[@nathanieldavis5231]

You do if you're a fascist , nazi , murdering pig.

[@chrys3073]

💯

[@philipzaccheus8398]

Informative information necessary for exposure of clarity for needed real knowledgeable possible knowledge.

[@russell9206]

Interesting interview

[@joeows6537]

I watch this several times in the past few months and each time it needs to into another rabbit hole this is a very good interview well done.

[@jackprecip5389]

I've always stated that when the CIA used lunatics like Elie Homolka (yes, he of the Sabra and Shatila infamy) to try and assassinate Fadlallah in Beirut in 1985, and instead blew up and killed 80 schoolgirls leaving a Mosque trying to do so (they completely missed Fadlallah, who most people now agree was not responsible for the barracks bombing of the Marines in 1983, which is why he was targeted), that that should have been the last straw for the long and infamous nefarious acts of the CIA/OSS, and they should have been shut down. Instead, when I say that, most people look at me with a puzzled look because they have no idea what I'm talking about which says a lot about what the public is told and not told in regard to what these maniacs are doing all over the world.

[@darkfielddiggermicrosafari]

I didn't know the details you gave, but from massive evidence (still available for those who will search for it) I entirely agree with you. I am utterly disgusted that they have gotten away with it for so long, but realize it is because they have huge control over the legacy corporate news media and Hollywood. CNN, MSNBC et al are faithful and true mouthpieces for his evil organization. They probably staged the Watergate scandal to swamp the story of the just prior to that disclosure of the Pentagon Papers, which exposed the deception that the US Intelligence Agencies and deep State Dept had foisted upon the people of America concerning the Vietnam war. They succeeded so well that most people have heard of Watergate, but they haven't heard of the Pentagon Papers ... and the Pentagon Papers are actually far far more significant and important than Watergate ever was.

[@Sammyli99]

Nice Jack, more people share your views then you release and whoever did the 83 bombings should have been bought to trial anyway.

[@petergreen5337]

Wow .that's shocking.

[@handibode]

Wow thanks, I had not heard this story, don’t remember ever reading about Hobeika. What a monster.

[@garybowler5946]

This was really good!!!!!!

[@billjenkins5693]

Thank you

[@manbaerpigg]

I wish I could send ya money chris hedges,but I am so poor that all of it goes just to live! Please don't give up cos we are listening n believe in your cause....free n balanced reporting should be a given in our everyday life! But,much like eating fish you gotta take in the meat n discard/watch for bones. Keep up the good work n thank you

[@susanmercurio1060]

So am I, so poor that I can't donate much

[@numbersix8919]

Most people are poor. Most poor people are honest. You are in good company.

[@nathanieldavis5231]

Well stated.

[@user-gz4ve8mw9l]

Don't fret too much Chris Hedges has a net worth of $1.5 million.

[@nathanieldavis5231]

@@user-gz4ve8mw9l That's not that much by todays standards. I would say he earned it.

[@djseverin9771]

Leadership in the CIA has come from the financial sector starting with Dullas

[@bruceswearingen7718]

Wall St gangsters..what we have now

[@GrandmaCathy]

And he was evil.

[@itcantbetruebutis7778]

In an Era where the depth of conversation is so shallow that the deep end has become an abyss, and the shalow end is reciprocal to adults swimming in the kiddie pool...

[@praero551]

Thanks for effort! The blues, please provide link

[@thinkbeforeyoutype7106]

This was an amazing interview. Thank you guys!

[@stephaniecarrow4898]

To my mind, the CIA successes are far worse than the CIA failures. A really excellent discussion. Thank you to both. (I have no problem believing the link to the JFK assassination.)

[@nathanieldavis5231]

Name one success.

[@alanaadams7440]

HWBush was in charge of the CIA when JFK was assassinated

[@eljerc5894]

Jfk assassination

[@CT-zz6di]

Chris you Rock 💪💪💪💪

[@lindascanlan6317]

This was fascinating.....ty

[@pierremoreau986]

Excellent interview thank you 👍

[@counterflow5719]

Perhaps the CIA should be restricted to gathering information. Any operations should be turned over to the president to give to the military.

[@chuckfrost5624]

Gary Cahn, the last person who tried to get rid of the CIA was president John f. Kennedy . Look at how that turned out. They blew his brains out.

[@midniteryder1953]

John Kirikou is money well spent. Being honest makes him really the most dangerous man on Earth. I salute you brother. Live long and prosper.

[@truBador2]

Amazing.

[@jakecowart953]

I’m happy to see you on this great channel, Chris.

[@bcadams75]

This TRNN platform, w/Chris's journalistic abilities, & John's expert experience made an excellent episode 👏

[@therealnews]

Thanks for watching, Brandon!

[@NikolaAvramov]

Funny how Chris Hedges didn't mind when CIA was starting a war which he agitated for by lying and slandering to get people killed. Because he was paid to do it.

[@valerieurquhart3133]

Am I just imagining some of the similarities between the CIA and the Wagoner Group?

[@bhmcrumbs1348]

I think the senator was a little worried more than just losing his security clearance...

[@kennethlodwig4024]

keep up the great work Chris Hedges. your work has kept me informed.

[@eileenmc4746]

Does John have his uncensored etc social platform network going yet? A Hero!

[@tashvadj4914]

I’m so sorry I can’t donate right now, but THANK YOU for your very appreciated efforts. 🙏🏼

[@brianramsey8395]

Frank Church was super important in American politics in the '70s. They named a wilderness area in Idaho after him, Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness area, great area of the U.S. if you have the time. Beautiful!

[@kateoneal4215]

Bless you both for your work.