Why I Was Targeted by the CIA - John Kiriakou on RAI (9/10)

On Reality Asserts Itself, Mr. Kiriakou explains how the CIA opened a
criminal file on him when he was the first CIA official to publicly
acknowledge torture was a policy; they stepped up their effort to charge him when he began investigating possible CIA complicity in war crimes in Afghanistan

[@Kaitlin_Elyse]

Thank you so much for your work and leading a life of honesty, good morals and ethics! From the bottom of my heart you have no idea what that means to. Hats off to you sir.. If anyone is a patriot that is you.

[@lightofchicagoproductionz9012]

John Kiriakou is a REAL AMERICAN! dont let nothing bad happen to this MAN! Free Julian Assange - and Free Edward Snowden

[@ciacutout]

gag me with a spoon...they are murdering drug dealing BASTARDS...I would know

[@DrGreerIsRight]

Edward Snowden isn't unfreeze. He lives in Russia. Like a normal human. He can't go back to the USA but hey, he seems genuinely happy.

[@KizzMyAbs]

Hero, legend and true American warrior

[@cuttheknot4781]

John Kiriakou greatest early flaw was his naivete about so many things. I am endeared to him for this reason because he was essentially innocent minded with good intentions....live and learn...we all go this route.

[@spiffymagicman7284]

Do you think the cia knows i broke into langly and stole a few crayons?😅

[@akkbuilders]

In my eyes, and should be to every American, you are heroic!!!!

[@ndlcroselockhart]

You are a hero that we should all be proud of thank you Mr K!

[@lassejohansson548]

Great and many Thanks fore this Amazing Video,

[@al4ever349]

The Real News should try to have both John Kiriakou and Scott Bennett together for a series of interviews like these, for a mind blowing show of facts on corruption running through the government. John should get together and share notes, I bet John would be mind blown with what Scott Benet found, and could help him to further his investigations at a higher level.

[@arnoldlee2148]

Regarding Mr. Kirakou's interview on ABC news , where he says he changed his attitude towards the use of waterboarding as a method of interrogation , " because we are Americans and we are better than that ". I submit the following quote attributed to president Richard Nixon , " There are those who will hate you , but those who hate you do not win until you hate them , for it is then that you have decided to destroy yourself ". If only Dick Cheney had reflected upon this , perhaps the American people and the U.S. would not have lost the respect of the court of public opinion throughout the world. Perhaps . . . simply my thoughts and something to ponder.

[@macplumber]

Cliffhanger?..... Dam you Paul Jay! Lol!

[@michaelbunner7387]

The CIA and the council on foreign relations need to be dissolved. Then the federal reserve bank needs to be nationalized and the national debt forgiven baised on users clauses and RICO ACT PROVISIONS. Then we need to take a serious look at NSA and homeland security with the same considerations.

[@ciacutout]

Finally, a SMART AMERICAN!!!! Love ya...

[@michaelbunner7387]

@@ciacutout thanks, Until those crooks conmen,theives and murderers are thrown permanently in the trashcan of history the world will not have any unity,safety,or security! Thanks again for the comment

[@ciacutout]

@@michaelbunner7387 My family is littered with them. They have tormented me for 20 years because I refused service. This country is about to fall, thanks to the NAZI assholes they brought here on Operation Paperclip. My dad was born OUT OF WEDLOCK to William S. Paley...And in the adoptive family, Sidney J. Zabludoff a former deputy director, and a former member of the Council on Foreign Relations, whadiya know....I get regular death threats from my sister, she called me an evil bastard....LOL She worked for many years for Sargent Schriver, a lawyer who married a Kennedy...

[@helenajennings4912]

The world isn't a nice place yikes 😮

[@waynekoppa1504]

"Thiopental (Pentothal) is still used in some places as a truth serum to weaken the resolve of a subject and make them more compliant to pressure." I assume research has significantly increased the efficacy of the classified drug currently being used for this purpose. Water boarding/torture is a primitive and useless way to extract information.

[@michaelbunner7387]

Pantothenic is exactly what should be injected into our government officials,banker cartel, the council on foreign relations, state street,vangard,vanguard, blackrock just to name a few of course we shouldn't leave out faucci,gates,Sarous brothers . It wouldn't be a bad thing if it was used on the right people so we stand a chance of getting the truth out of those crooks instead of a endless line of ambitious manusha!

[@tyroncampbell429]

How does this even happen, if my “friends” introduced me, that’s one of the first questions I’m asking my friends.” Aye bro, you hit?” That simple.

[@moto2kx2]

BINGO: And this is why everything you email comment on and text is cataloged so they have "a file" for whenever you decide to "become an activist".

[@SebastianDavidPB]

+moto2kx2 unless it's more profitable to remain on their side there's little reason to become an activist

[@tarawhite4419]

The whole thing is falling apart and I want to be on the right side of things when they do

[@larryyouguessame6078]

We need to end the Patriot Act!🙄

[@CajunGreenMan]

Richard Clarke says in his book that AS SOON AS Bush jr became elected, he had Clarke look at Iraq (I forget exactly what for, probably WMD), so there was clearly a desire to target Iraq the day they walked into the White House. I think there is even a clip of Bush jr at some event where someone said they believed he went into Iraq because they tried to kill his father, and Bush said, Absolutely!'.

[@michaelbunner7387]

Daddy bush is the one who put saddam into power, He used taxpayer money ie foreign aid to gain private intrests in Iraq oil and a foothold next to Iran. When saddam cut Bush off of his cut of profits from Iraq oil he saddam immediately became the enemy. So the national security state, The banker's cartel, and the council on foreign relations decided to destroy Iraq and then built the largest embassy in the world. Along with more stinkin United States military bases so they could use taxpayer money as always and lives to defend their stinkin crooked private intrests. While they sit at home and eat pheasant and drink thousand dollar bottles of wine and figure out who the next country is that they are going to rip off at the taxpayer exspence and lives!

[@hightechhippie]

Go figure. He whistle blows and he gets in trouble for it.

[@yafaflores1111]

Watching this now and remembering the torture findings. I think he was a target for speaking the truth in which , under the Bush administration this opened up more than just on a debate level but a strong human rights issue. Being that he had worked in Human Rights division in the past. Of course he would feel the way he did. But unlike some other people not mentioning names. This gentleman was a target. He was possibly setup and used. Especially after resigning from the Central Intelligence Agency. He has those papers to sign before he received any confidential info. It's like writing your name in blood. .

[@nuggetella]

All deep state organisations function the same, it's a game of hide and seek, blackmail & extortion for promotion influence and or power... A rare few pass through all such traps with untarnished integrity...

[@doncapone8156]

Fabulous

[@NoWay1969]

Dasht-i-Leili massacre sounds like something out of a Nazi atrocities documentary. _We_ did that?

[@lumburgapalooza]

There is no "we". Nationalism is a peasant's distraction. Those in power don't see nationality, just individuals, their particular loyalties and the power they weild to inforce their will. Everything is factional.

[@NoWay1969]

lumburgapalooza Quite insightful. The only thing that I would quibble with is it seems looking at it like that leads to conflict.

[@lumburgapalooza]

No Way​ I couldn't disagree more. Ideological factionalism is a fact of government; be it a democracy, monarchy or global corporate oligarchy. Always has been. Understanding this is key to understanding the world and making informed decisions. We will never move forward as a species without shedding ourselves of divisive ideologies, be they nationalist, racist, sectarian etc.. These serve only to reduce our understanding of the fact that individuals and the decisions they make shape our world; INDIVIDUALS, not races or nations or creeds. Those things are too large, vague and unwieldy to act with any internal consistency. Only when we examine the cells of the body, the ATOMS of that cell, the fundamental particles of that atom, do we come to understand the whole, the body, the world.

[@NoWay1969]

lumburgapalooza Fair enough. When you explain it as something to be recognized to allow us to move beyond our innate tribalism I agree. *"Understanding this is key to understanding the world and making informed decisions. We will never move forward as a species without shedding ourselves of divisive ideologies"* Hear, hear.

[@wendellrider1212]

John has good points but he knew too much !! He is lucky to be alive.

[@kelleylynch7256]

There was testimony before Congress on waterboarding in 2005, The issue was whether it was torture or an interrogation technique. John K. leaked information that led to names of CIA operatives ending up in Gitmo prison defense files. `Waterboarding' spurs debate on what is torture John Crewdson, Tribune senior correspondent CHICAGO TRIBUNE In an appearance in March before the Senate Armed Services Committee, U.S. Sen. John McCain asked CIA Director Porter Goss about a purported agency interrogation technique intended to "have the prisoner feel that they were drowning." "You're getting into, again, an area of what I will call professional interrogation techniques," Goss replied. "That's the area that I'm concerned about," retorted McCain, an Arizona Republican, whose amendment to a military appropriations bill forbidding the "cruel, inhuman or degrading" treatment of detainees in U.S. custody passed the Senate in October by 90-9. `We don't do torture' The CIA won't discuss the technique McCain mentioned, known as "waterboarding," which it says is classified. But as Goss also told the committee, "We don't do torture." "There is no doubt that waterboarding is torture, despite the administration's reluctance to say so," argues Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch. Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales recently told CNN that "Congress has defined what torture is, and it is intentional infliction of severe--I emphasize the word `severe'--intentional infliction of severe physical or mental pain or suffering." Asked whether "waterboarding" would be allowed under that definition, Gonzales replied that "that would be something that would have to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis." Whether or not it constitutes torture, intelligence officials and others who have seen waterboarding -- or experienced it--say nothing in the interrogator's arsenal is simpler, quicker or more effective. The difference, they say, is that waterboarding doesn't induce pain that can be withstood. It induces terror and a reaction of the autonomic nervous system that cannot be controlled. Several conflicting descriptions of how waterboarding is done have been published in recent weeks. According to a Navy SEAL who says he underwent waterboarding during training, the process works like this: The subject is strapped to a board and tilted so his head is lower than his feet. A cloth is tied over his nose and mouth and saturated with water, eventually making it impossible for him to breathe. When used in the field, the technique is less elaborate but no less effective. No board, for example, is involved; the suspect is simply held down. "You just pull the guy's T-shirt over his face and dump a canteen of water on his head," said the SEAL, who spoke on condition that he not be identified and who emphasized that he had never used the technique during a real interrogation. Waterboarding has been described as "the illusion of drowning." In fact, there is no illusion; if interrogators didn't stop, the subject would drown. "Inhaling even a small amount of water causes the body to close the glottis and violently cough to remove the offending substance," said the SEAL, who is also trained as a Navy hospital corpsman. "This entire process initiates the fight-or-flight response in the sympathetic nervous system, causing the person to involuntarily raise their heart rate, respiratory rate, and flail and writhe in an effort to break free from the situation. "This reaction is even more pronounced when the subject is lying on his back with feet elevated and head down. This is due to the fact that the nostrils serve as a catch basin for small, but significant nonetheless, amounts of water." Because the water prevents air from entering the nose and mouth, and therefore the lungs, the supply of oxygen available for metabolic functions is exhausted within seconds. "After performing this on a target for 30 seconds and then stopping the flow of water, the sense of relief and then the realization that this is but a brief respite are extremely powerful motivators for the subject to cooperate in the interrogation," the SEAL said. Practice seen in training Waterboarding experienced in training, he added, "is instantly effective on 100 percent of Navy SEALs, a group which is probably more comfortable in adverse maritime swimming conditions than any other on the planet." "In my case, I wasn't even held down. My teammate simply poured a canteen of water over my face while I had my T-shirt pulled over my head. Instantly, my ability to breathe through the T-shirt was taken away and my natural reaction to inhale deeply through my mouth and nose for air caused me to take on small amounts of water." Waterboarding is also effective, the SEAL said, because the subject realizes that "there are no enduring physiological consequences, which he intuitively knows. This is important psychologically, because he can legitimately hope that he will be able to live on normally after the experience, if only he cooperates. "Breaking kneecaps and pulling out fingernails does not hold this promise. The fact that the target has a chance to remain fully whole makes him more likely to be truthful and to break more quickly." www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2005-12-28-0512280226-story.html

[@noellebazzi5618]

That is horrible and abusive to human torture in any way we are really going insane sicopathic abusing the world and rights None of the prisoners in Guantanamo had Any thing to do with 911 it was a Saudi national persons Non of them was from Afghanistan

[@robertgowdey]

Interviewer asking same questions from previous parts when he explained during 9/11 his then gf now wife worked with him at the CIA and then in this interview he's forgets?

[@mubarakghani9976]

John Korigolou is a hero need to be decorated top job

[@Joe-li3zj]

Espionage agent falls for reporters ploy? Cmon.

[@xsubdarthx]

Who are they trained by, themselves?😂

[@Reticuli]

Just when you think the CIA has cleaned its shit up finally after all these years...

[@SebastianDavidPB]

+Reticuli they went down the crapper after the jfk incident

[@SebastianDavidPB]

+Horrid4Splendor if those would have gotten buried it would have been a professional job, doesn't sound like the CIA which leaves trails of evidence behind every shit it sticks its hand into, if they would up the standards on recruitment maybe they could get their shit together (an agency which employs and recruits people who only know 2 words in a foreign language of interest doesn't sound very professional)

[@tuesdaysrunner4038]

+Reticuli You can clean up the CIA by revoking the "National Security Act of 1947"... Write to your US Senator and Congressman...

[@taradeleeuw2344]

Yup

[@ClarksonFisherIII]

I lol'd. @ 14:00

[@future_teknokrat7585]

The thing is, he revealed names and some of those agents were still cobert or under cover at the time

[@taradeleeuw2344]

Of course

[@smsm2859]

@pauljay kindly ask John what in his understating separates hin Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden in the crimes they are allegged to commit. All power to whistle bowers but take the ignorant through, what had they done extra wrong or is it just they were a contractor in one case and reporting to another agency.

[@kenbush6942]

sad what usa did to this man bush 43 should be jailed

[@tylero8595]

Nooooooooooo........ I need to know now.

[@garymclaughin]

Well it was a mistake everyone went over there so they just came here did it within. Airport security has changed the big one something I don't know but someone can walk in off the street and learn the basics off flying a large plane without properly vetted that's what happened. So it still is the war within right now some groups could walk right in buy all kinds of weapons made for the battlefield and raise Kane. Still the focus is outside and overseas.

[@taradeleeuw2344]

Weird

[@mubarakghani9976]

9/11 Mossad job based on US army report 4 weeks before the incident. Arabs scapegoat

[@taradeleeuw2344]

We know

[@taradeleeuw2344]

A wife ,hum

[@GreenMountainGrow]

That was mean..... "(

[@GreenMountainGrow]

***** thank you friend, my uploads are sometimes speratic however there is MUCH more to come!!!!

[@GreenMountainGrow]

***** Yeah.... wow... ..... .. I'm sorry to hear about your experience with the "War on Humanity & freedom". Sounds like some one needs to perform some magic on his ass ;) I'm glad your able to think for yourself & use the brain God gave you too experience the medical benefits of cannabis for YOURSELF despite all the propaganda from our monarchy.

[@katcampbell954]

+luke short Get the HECK out of there while you still can. Find a legal way and LEAVE! Do not pass go or collect 100.

[@SnozberriesTasteLikeSnozberrys]

I knew he was lying when he said, EVERYTHING he releases has to be pre approved by the CIA. He then asked him if this interview was approved by the CIA, he said oh no just written material not interviews. Ugh okay 😂😂

[@28brooksk]

I hate when the news acts like TV, it belittles the importance of the reporting. Though I guess it's not like anyone is going to do anything about war crimes anyway, so use the best profit model, right? Just remember keep your head down and mouth shut, find a nice quiet place to live and never you mind, go play a video game or go to the mall, buy yourself something nice.

[@modelclasslist]

Before anyone BLABs to the public (People and others), you better check with the channels to ensure you are not directly harming national security. This guy is a self-promoter who pimps himself to the media industry and would be more honorable being a cartel mercenary than a disorienting enemy propagandist.

[@MrAdrianaangel]

Bush called them detainees. How delicate.

[@carlnelson1658]

“I felt” well it’s not up to him to decide. He should be thankful he doesn’t have to make the decision. Maybe we were saving American lives.

[@noellebazzi5618]

I did not see one Iraki person in the 911 highjacked planes? Why attack Iraki ? It is insane everyone knows this was a big mistake BUSh was an arrogant ignorantes president who caused millions of innocents lives lost 😢 he is evil and his gang too 😢

[@MrSte2phen]

Actor

[@kevincollins7320]

He trained In Depstion

[@ronaldshiffman9171]

I do not trust this man. He did a video about Israel in which he described the situation of his 2 CIA friends that were sent to live in Israel for a year or 2. According to him, his friends were subjected to Israeli harassment within a short time after their arrival. What he does not say is, what were his 2 innocent, non-concerning friends were doing in Israel and if they were harassed, why they didn't report it to the authorities as criminal activity. He tells an Israeli abuse story with virtually no details and no Israeli side of the story (if it is not fabricated.) I don't believe him. Why would anyone?

[@noellebazzi5618]

Because the zionsts are an abusive state who do not give a dam if you are American or what Soo ever

[@noellebazzi5618]

Who killed the American girl Rachel with the bulldozer she did nothing to harm she was defending a Palastine house not to be demolish acting as a human which the Zionists are not 😢

[@klk1900]

So waterboarding never should’ve been used. But these emotional guys have no idea how much danger they put our troops in. Like the detainee abuse photos got multiple iraqis and Americans killed. Him making it public ultimately caused far more harm than the waterboarding itself

[@xusmico187]

your NDA is clear... regardless of the information being released to public DOES NOT declass the info. traitor during war....

[@Ethansesar]

Wait is he serious? This guy worked in our county's CIA? And now he's leaking secrets and he's unhappy about being in jail for a short time? So what? Even if we did torture. These guys deserve it and to be honest I would have no problem doing it myself. This guy is still alive, which shows this country has laws considering if this was any other country this guy would be dead. Wow I can not believe this guy He is a traitor

[@thebigj2099]

Agree. He should have kept his mouth shut on TV. He wanted a book deal.

[@garygoodin1426]

I beg to differ. 1: We should not have even invaded, destroying their country; 2: Killing, also torturing people in their towns and cities shows we have sunk to the level of demons. Truth, exposes hidden evil which makes the evil run for cover.

[@anonymousdevildog1406]

Kiriakou, why you didn't believe that water boarding was OK is beyond me. These guys chop off heads, and you don't think our interogation techniques are appropriate? The CIA should have not recruited you, or hired you back after the State Dept. You may have been highly trained, but you lost loyalty to the US mission a long time ago after the farm.

[@tonodono6945]

Torture has always gone on in war. But you DON'T make it OFFICIAL POLICY and become the very enemy you are trying to fight. Also, torture on average does not provide reliable intelligence, and literally brings you down to the level of the enemy if you sanction those actions. You sound like someone who perhaps only recently started getting news online.

[@anonymousdevildog1406]

So, what your saying is, officially ban the practice and behind the scenes, go all in and do it. NICE. LOL

[@tonodono6945]

No, that would be a strawman. I say keep the practice banned as ever it was since at least the end of WW2, and do not sink to the level of your enemy and give up the moral high ground by refusing to prosecute those who DO torture. Now, on a case by case basis, let's say that you have an enemy detained, and there are stockpiles of dirty bombs all across the U.S., and they will go off in 10 minutes without the kill code. Let's say you, as an individual, decide to take the law into your hands and use torture on this person to get the codes, after exhausting the most effective means of extracting intelligence. Let's say you use torture and SUCCESSFULLY disarm the bombs because of ACTIONABLE intelligence you acquired through said torture. Give that person a jury trial, make sure the jury knows all of their right, including jury nullification, and I would guess that person would be acquitted, as he saved the country. Now let's say all that happened, but (and this is far more likely), after using torture, you get NO ACTIONABLE INTELLIGENCE because the guy just tells you anything to get the pain to stop. This is what is far more likely to happen, because physical torture DOES NOT PROVIDE *ACTIONABLE* intelligence. And of course, assuming there's a country left, you give that person a trial as well.

[@tuesdaysrunner4038]

+1775 John Kiriakou was at the funny farm? That is why he leaked the classified information that the CIA tortured its detainees??? Now he is on house arrest...

[@michaelbunner7387]

The terrorist activities and their existence has been entirely funded and approved by the state dept and the CIA there is not one country in the world that is better off or freezer or more democratic from our intervention

[@alhuzayl6029]

Decently "put together". I would give it a c+, however, I will admit that something just "wasn't right' about that story. I smell bullshit!

[@azadrasheed497]

CiA,USA,FBI,Dept of Homeland Security,Police Department,Sheriff's,Marshall's,USA's Army,Navy,Airforce, Bombers, costing billions, Trillions,to USA Taxpayers so that they can sleep in Peace..

[@justinsmith4562]

Sounds like he brought it all upon himself.

[@erichhoneckerrespecter9438]

You are retarded

[@DaDansinBear]

Idiot

[@ciacutout]

Hello John, How do I get your EMPLOYER off my back? I understand I am from Philadelphia, my grandfather was William S. Paley, and my former deputy director cousin is Sidney Zabludoff. But why do I have to be forced???? Tell me John......

[@Jeremy-kq5bs]

I don't believe a word that this guy says. I definitely believe the government was complicit, absolutely. This guy just screams liar to me. Something about him, I don't trust a single word he says.