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John Kiriakou
“I’m almost ashamed to tell you that they asked 14 of us if we wanted to be trained in the enhanced interrogation techniques. I was the only one who said no.”
Very good interview. The only guy who went to prison for the U.S. torture program (as revenge for him not participating in it).

A real indictment of the dastardly Bush, Obama and Biden Administrations.

“There is a deep state. You don’t have to call it the deep state if you don’t want to. You can call it the state. You can call it the federal bureaucracy. You can call it whatever you want. The fact is it exists and it’s unelected and it’s generally unaccountable to anybody. and they just wait for the President to leave if they don’t want to do what he wants.”

“A reporter says, “Look, all these international human rights organizations are saying that the CIA is torturing its prisoners. What’s your response to that?” And the President [Bush] looks right in the camera and he goes, “We do not

torture like that.” And I said to my wife, who was a senior CIA officer, I

said, “He is a bald-faced liar. He’s looking the American people right in the

eye, and he’s lying to us.” And she said, “Are you surprised?””

“I can’t talk about how Afghanistan produces 93% of the world’s heroin, and all of it is because the CIA said they could. I can’t talk about the Dasht-i-Leili massacre where 2,000 Taliban soldiers were suffocated to death in container trucks because the CIA didn’t punch holes for them to breathe in the containers. Can’t talk about any of that stuff because” John Kerry wants to be Secretary of State.

“The average American on the average day going about his or her normal daily business commits three felonies, every single day. So if they want to get you, they’re going to get you. And there’s nothing you can do to protect yourself.”

Rogan: “This kind of stuff is so hard to believe.”

Kiriakou: “It’s America. You don’t want to believe this about America.”

Rogan: “You want to believe we’re the good guys.”

Kiriakou: “Yeah.”

“The average American on the average day going about his or her normal daily business commits three felonies, every single day.