"Everybody is working for somebody."
~ John Kiriakou 'Doing Time Like A Spy' page 80.
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… Darkest Figures of our Generation, and was likely responsible for the Origin of RussiaGate Kiriakou was charged with espionage for being a CIA whistleblower. During the course of discovery to prove his innocence, he found memos between John Brennan and Eric Holder, where Brennan told Holder to charge him with espionage. Eric Holder told Brennan they didn’t think John Kiriakou commited espionage. John Brennan told Eric Holder to charge him anyway and make him defend himself. They waited until John Kiriakou went bankrupt to drop the espionage charges. EVIL EVIL PEOPLE. Clip https://rumble.com/v6skccv-lets-see-if-we-can-get-him-to-commit-suicide-or-entrap-him-with-a-child-pro.html |
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| CIA operative reveals mental disorder agency 'actively seeks to hire' because it makes for better spies |
| 2025-01-23 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A former CIA operative has revealed the agency pursues people with a certain mental disorder as it makes them the best agents. John Kiriakou, who had a 14-year career as a CIA officer, said the agency 'actively seeks to hire people who have sociopathic tendencies,' but avoids individuals with a full-blown disorder. A 'sociopath' is someone who lacks empathy, disregards the feelings of others and may manipulate or harm people without remorse, often for their own personal gain. 'Sociopaths are impossible to control,' said Kiriakou. 'They slip through the cracks because they have no conscience and they pass the polygraph very easily because they don't feel guilty. Someone who has some of these qualities tend to rise to the highest levels of the CIA. 'People who have sociopathic tendencies do have a conscience but are still perfectly happy to work in moral legal and ethical gray areas,' said Kiriakou. Kiriakou admitted that he falls into the category of having sociopathic tendencies, explaining how he was 'happy to break into people's houses and plant bugs.' The former officer used the idea that he was part of the good guys and that his country needed him as a way to feed his sociopathic tendencies. The CIA has admitted that spies have pathological personality features that help them with their espionage efforts, such as a sense of entitlement or a desire for power and control. While employed by the CIA, Kiriakou was involved in critical counterterrorism missions following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. He was involved in the capture of terrorist Abu Zubaydah. However, he refused to be trained in so-called 'enhanced interrogation techniques.' Kiriakou has claimed that he never authorized or engaged in these techniques. After leaving the CIA, he appeared on ABC News where he said the CIA waterboarded detainees and labeled the action as torture. The interview led to Kiriakou being arrested in 2012 and charged with one count of violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act for allegedly illegally disclosing the identity of a covert officer. He was also charged with two counts of violating the Espionage Act for allegedly illegally disclosing national defense information to individuals not authorized to receive it, and one count of making false statements for allegedly lying to the Publications Review Board of the CIA in an unsuccessful attempt to trick the CIA into allowing him to include classified information in a book he was seeking to publish. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 30 months in prison. 'A CIA psychiatrist told me one time that the CIA looks to hire people with sociopathic tendencies–not sociopaths because sociopaths have no consciences,' said Kiriakou, speaking to The Real News Network. When asked if he thinks that is what the CIA saw in him, he responded: 'I think they probably did.' Kiriakou provided a question he was asked during the CIA hiring interview. 'They said, 'You know that Mr X has something in his house that you need, whether it’s a file or whatever. You need it. And you work on him to recruit him so that eventually he turns that file over to you.' 'But he’s not recruitable. And in the end, when you ask him for the file, he tells you, no. What do you do?' 'I said, I break into the house and take the file.' Seemed like a perfectly logical answer to me.' The former CIA officer explained that because he believed he was part of the good guys, Mr X was surely a bad guy, such as a Russian scientist. Another former CIA agent, Jim 'Mad Dog' Lawler, has echoed Kiriakou's remarks about sociopathic tendencies in the agency. Lawler had a 25-year career with the agency as a nuclear weapons expert and spy. He was a specialist in the recruitment of foreign spies, and he spent over half of his CIA career battling the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. During his career, Lawler served as chief of the A.Q. Khan Nuclear Takedown Team, which resulted in the disruption a nuclear weapons network led by Abdul Qadeer Khan. The network was active in the 1980s and 1990s and involved countries including Iran, Libya, and North Korea. Lawler recently said the CIA wants people who are dangerously on the line or straddling the line of being a sociopath. 'A good friend of mine he was an operational psychologist at the CIA and he would review the criteria for hiring more folks like me and he wondered you know how much sociopathy are we dialing in to, he said while speaking on the Julian Dorey Podcast. 'What I did is rather sociopathic. I'm manipulating people. I'm exploiting people. I found out doing it against foreigners was as hell of a lot of fun. 'Its that sociopathic part where we enjoy breaking people's laws because that's what we do we break foreign countries laws. We are convincing people to become Traders.' He also explained that he would do virtually anything that's legal to get people in foreign countries to be spies for the US. Lawler admitted that he had only used his 'special skills' three times, including to avoid a traffic ticket and get an upgrade to first class on an airplane. The former CIA officer shared that he is also extremely empathic, which is the complete opposite of a full-blown sociopath. Related: John Kiriakou 10/08/2023 CIA wanted Trump out of office because he recognized the deep state: John Kiriakou John Kiriakou 06/22/2023 BlackRock Recruiter Claims Senators Can Be 'Bought' For $10k, War 'Good For Business': O'Keefe John Kiriakou 12/20/2022 FBI recruited and 'PAID' Twitter sources with US Taxpayer money..... as suspected Related: Lawler 12/15/2024 Jew-hate at American universities round-up: 12/2-12/14 Lawler 11/11/2024 I worked on Kamala Harris's campaign - and this is why it turned out to be an utter shambles Lawler 10/01/2024 𝗠𝗘𝗘𝗧 𝗠𝗔𝗛𝗘𝗥 𝗕𝗜𝗧𝗔𝗥 - 𝗛𝗔𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗨𝗦 𝗪𝗛𝗜𝗧𝗘 𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗦𝗘 𝗕𝗘𝗘𝗡 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗜𝗟𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗕𝗬 𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗜-𝗜𝗦𝗥𝗔𝗘𝗟 𝗥𝗔𝗗𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗦? |
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| CIA wanted Trump out of office because he recognized the deep state: John Kiriakou |
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"Everybody is working for somebody." ~ John Kiriakou 'Doing Time Like A Spy' page 80. |
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| BlackRock Recruiter Claims Senators Can Be 'Bought' For $10k, War 'Good For Business': O'Keefe | |
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"The senators…are f***ing cheap – you got 10 grand, you can buy a senator," he remarked.
Blackrock is also apparently loving the war in Ukraine, which Varley described as "real fuckin' good for business." Ukraine is good for business, you know that right? Russia blows up Ukraine’s grain silos and the price of wheat is going to go mad up. The Ukrainian economy is the wheat market. The price of bread goes up, this is fantastic if you’re trading. Volatility creates opportunity for profit… According to Varley, it's "exciting when shit goes wrong." "So what are you gonna do if you’re a trading firm? The moment that news hits, within a millisecond, you’re going to pump trades into whoever the wheat suppliers are. Into their stocks. Within an hour or two that stick goes f*cking up and then you sell and you just make, I don’t know, however many mil," he continued. "The Ukrainian economy is tied very largely to the wheat market, global wheat market, prices of bread, you know, literally everything goes up and down. This is fantastic if you’re trading. "Volatility creates opportunity to make profit. War is real fucking good for business." Watch: BREAKING: @BlackRock Recruiter Who “Decides People’s Fate” Spills Info on Company’s World Impact As the Post Millennial notes, Varley also described himself as a person who "decide[s] people's fates." "Every f*cking day, I literally decide how somebody’s life is going to be shaped," he said. "I’m not actually a finance guy, I just know what happens because I’m recruiting people who do these things." "Everyone works for somebody." ~ John Kiriakou, 'Doing Time Like a Spy' More via the PM: Varlay said these banks run the world because "you acquire stuff. You diversify, you acquire, you keep acquiring. You spend whatever you make in acquiring more. And at a certain point, your risk level is super low. Imagine you’ve invested in 10 different industries, from food to drinks to technology. If one of them fails it doesn’t matter, you have nine others to back you up." Varlay said that once "you own a little bit of everything… you can take this big f*ck-ton of money and then you can start to buy people." | |
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| FBI recruited and 'PAID' Twitter sources with US Taxpayer money..... as suspected |
| 2022-12-20 |
| [Daily Caller] The FBI paid Twitter millions as a reimbursement for the time the company spent processing the FBI’s requests, according to internal documents published by author Michael Shellenberger Monday, in the most recent installment of Twitter CEO Elon Musk’s ongoing "Twitter Files." Wait until it is discovered that these embedded 'former' intelligence agency Twitter employees were still on the FBI payroll and simply.... 'detailed' to Twitter. In an email with the subject line "Run the business — we made money!" an employee, whose name was redacted, reports to then-Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker, that the FBI paid Twitter nearly $3.5 million dollars between October 2019 and February 2021, Shellenberger reported. Baker, a former FBI agent, was the agency’s general counsel during Operation Crossfire Hurricane, and approved the surveillance of former Trump campaign aide Carter Page via improper use of the Steele dossier, according to a report by the Justice Department’s inspector general. The FBI and Twitter enjoyed a close relationship in the run-up to the 2020 elections, with the FBI promising "no impediments to information sharing" between the two groups in a Sept. 16, 2020 meeting between social media executives and intelligence community staff. In a previous installment of the "Twitter Files," journalist Matt Taibbi said he had not found evidence that the FBI or intelligence community was involved in Twitter’s decision to suppress access to a New York Post story about a laptop owned by Hunter Biden, but new documents from Shellenberger indicated that the FBI was, in fact, involved. The Post’s original October 14, 2020, story was based on a laptop, apparently belonging to Biden, containing a 2015 email linking then-Vice President Joe Biden to his son Hunter’s business dealings with the Ukrainian gas company Burisma. Prior to the story’s release, the FBI issued warnings to social media platforms that there was likely to be a Russian "hack-and-leak" operation prior to the election — Twitter’s then-head of trust and safety Yoel Roth testified that he had been explicitly warned of a leak targeting Hunter Biden — despite not having any evidence of such an operation being underway, Shellenberger reported, citing the testimony of FBI Special Agent Elvis Chan. "Everybody works for somebody." ~ John Kiriakou 'Doing Time Like A Spy', page 80. |
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| We don't need the CIA: A history of failure. John Kiriakou worked for the CIA from 1990 to 2004 and was the CIA's Chief of Counterterrorist Operations. |
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Cut them ALL loose! The whole hellish organization. Visualize a river of pink slips. Of course, they will fight like hell to prevent this. They murder people with drones, they're not going to meekly bow out just because our Congress passes some stupid law. They'll just call it Russian disinformation and nullify the results. Remember when we passed a law against the NSA spying on us and they ignored it and did it anyway? This brave man was one of the many whistleblowers prosecuted by Obama. He did time in federal prison for speaking out. Pay attention when he speaks, and please share this around. [TheRealNewsNetwork] 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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| John Kiriakau: The Deep State, Donald Trump and Us |
| 2017-03-17 |
| [Reader Supported News] The New York Times said this week that President Trump’s insistence that former president Barack Obama tapped his phone and that the CIA and FBI are leaking information to embarrass him and his administration is evidence that Trump believes there is a "deep state" within the U.S. government working against his presidency. The tone of the article is mocking, and the Times dutifully interviews the likes of former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden and a handful of think tank nobodies who served in the Obama and Bush White Houses. Indeed the Times also says that the term "deep state" is used frequently by Breitbart, the alt-right "news" site run by presidential counselor Steve Bannon, and by other right-wing media sites. But is it so hard to believe that there are elements of the government that don’t like the fact that Trump is rocking their boat or not allowing them primacy in policymaking, a status they enjoyed under both Obama and Bush? As Intercept columnist Glenn Greenwald noted, disliking and distrusting Trump and disliking and distrusting the CIA are not mutually exclusive. It’s not a zero-sum game. Same with the FBI. It’s possible to have a scenario with no good guy. First, what is a "deep state?" It is generally defined, according to the Times, as "a shadowy network of agency or military officials who secretly conspire to influence government policy. It is more often used to describe countries like Egypt, Turkey, and Pakistan, where authoritarian elements band together to undercut democratically-elected leaders." I think that description is a gross generalization. And I think the CIA, NSA, and FBI are far more sophisticated than to be so obvious as to invite comparisons to Egypt, Turkey, and Pakistan. One of the things that most observers don’t understand is that the CIA will do anything ‐ anything ‐ to survive. All CIA officers are taught to lie. They lie all the time, about everything, to everybody. And they justify it by trying to convince themselves that they are doing it in the national interest, for national security. From my very first day in the CIA, it was drilled into me, as it is into every other employee, that "the primary mission is to protect the Agency." That was the mantra. Couple that with the CIA’s ability to intercept and take over virtually any communications device, and you have a Frankenstein monster. Is it really hard to believe that such an organization would resist a president who challenged it? Is it hard to believe that it would do so surreptitiously? I don’t think so..... About the author: John Kiriakou is a former CIA counterterrorism officer and a former senior investigator with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. John became the sixth whistleblower indicted by the Obama administration under the Espionage Act - a law designed to punish spies. He served 23 months in prison as a result of his attempts to oppose the Bush administration's torture program. |
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| CIA Whisleblower: Secrets, lies and the iPhone, Champ's bizarre secrecy obsession. |
| 2016-02-28 |
| [Salon] It’s one of the enduring mysteries of Barack Obama’s presidency, as it sinks toward the sunset: How did this suave and intelligent guy, with the cosmopolitan demeanor, the sardonic sense of humor and the instinct for an irresistible photo-op, end up running the most hidden, most clandestine and most secrecy-obsessed administration in American history? And what does the fact that nobody in the 2016 campaign -- not Bernie Sanders, not Hillary Clinton, not anybody -- ever talks about this mean for the future? The answer to the second question is easy: Nothing good. The answer to the first one might be that those things are unrelated: Personality doesn’t tell us anything about policy, and our superficial judgments about political leaders are often meaningless. Bill Moyers warned me about this some years ago, when I asked him how he evaluated George W. Bush as a person. He wasn’t much interested in character or personality in politics, he said. Lyndon Johnson had been one of the most difficult people he’d ever known, and Moyers had never liked him, but Johnson was an extraordinarily effective politician. I wasn’t sharp enough to ask the obvious follow-up question, which was whether Johnson’s personal flaws had fed into his disastrous policy errors in Vietnam. Bill Moyers has forgotten more about politics than I will ever know, but the thing is, I do perceive a relationship between surface and substance, and I believe we learn something important about people almost right away. George W. Bush was profoundly incurious about the world, and insulated by layers of smarter people and money. Richard Nixon was always a creep. Bill Clinton wanted to make you cry and get your panties off. Ronald Reagan never had any idea what day it was. Barack Obama seems like a smart, funny, cool guy, and maybe he’s too much of all those things for his own good. Maybe we will look back decades from now and perceive the Obama paradox -- the baffling relationship between his appealing persona and his abysmal record on surveillance, government secrecy and national security -- in a different light. For one thing, whatever they told him between November of 2008 and January of 2009 must have been really scary. I called up John Kiriakou, a former CIA agent who spent 23 months in federal prison thinking this stuff over, to see if he could help. Kiriakou is one of the nine government leakers or whistleblowers that the Obama White House and/or the Justice Department has sought to prosecute under the Espionage Act, a law passed under Woodrow Wilson during World War I that was meant to target double agents working for foreign governments. (Among the other eight actual or prospective defendants are Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden.) Under all previous presidents, incurious George included, the Espionage Act was used for that purpose exactly three times. If you’re keeping score, that’s nine attempted prosecutions in seven years, versus three in 91 years. |
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| Ex-CIA man Kiriakou gets 2 1/2 years for leaks |
| 2013-01-25 |
| Former CIA officer John Kiriakou was sentenced Friday to more than two years in prison by a federal judge who rejected arguments that he was acting as a whistleblower when he leaked a covert officer's name to a reporter. A plea deal required the judge to impose a sentence of 2 1/2 years. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema said she would have given Kiriakou much more time if she could. Kiriakou's supporters describe him as a whistleblower who exposed aspects of the CIA's use of torture against detained terrorists. Prosecutors said Kiriakou was merely seeking to increase his fame and public stature by trading on his insider knowledge. The 48-year-old Arlington resident pleaded guilty last year to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act. No one had been convicted under the law in 27 years. |
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 A former CIA officer was indicted Thursday on charges of leaking secrets to journalists, including the name of a covert agent and the role of another CIA employee in classified operations. John Kiriakou, who had previously revealed the CIA's use of waterboarding of Al-Qaeda suspects, was charged in January with leaking secrets. The indictment allows the case to proceed to trial without an evidentiary hearing.The indictment returned by a grand jury in Virginia charged Kiriakou with one count of violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act and three counts of violating the Espionage Act. The indictment also charged him with making false statements to the CIA in an unsuccessful attempt to trick the agency into allowing him to include classified information in his 2010 book, "The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA's War on Terror." Kiriakou first came to public attention in an interview with ABC News in December 2007 in which he became the first US official to describe how top Al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah was subjected to waterboarding, a technique widely viewed as torture. The former CIA operative acknowledged later in his memoir, however, that he was not present when the interrogation took place. A CIA intelligence officer between 1990 and 2004, Kiriakou was accused in the indictment of leaking information to reporters anonymously identified as "Journalist A" and "Journalist B." The charges stem from an investigation into classified information, including photographs of a CIA official, that found its way into classified filings by defense lawyers representing detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, the US naval base in southern Cuba. The indictment claims Kiriakou was a source of information for a June 2008 New York Times article that identified a CIA operative and revealed other classified information. Kiriakou also was alleged to have lied to a CIA review board while he was seeking permission to publish a book about his experience.
He told the CIA review board that he had "fictionalized" that information when in fact he had not. The "magic box" technique was also described in The New York Times. The charges of leaking secrets each carry a potential prison term of 10 years, while the false statements charge carries a possible five-year prison sentence. | |
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| The One is Going After the Leakers |
| 2012-01-24 |
| The Justice Department on Monday charged a former CIA officer with repeatedly leaking classified information, including the identities of agency operatives involved in the capture and interrogation of alleged terrorists. The case against John Kiriakou, who also served as a senior Senate aide, extends the Obama administration's crackdown on disclosures of national security secrets. Kiriakou, 47, is the sixth target of a leaks-related prosecution since President Obama took office, exceeding the total number of comparable prosecutions under all previous administrations combined, legal experts said. The Establishment must be in awe. I wonder why didn't Bush do it? Media cruxifiction? Kiriakou, who was among the first to go public with details about the CIA's use of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation measures, was charged with disclosing classified information to reporters and lying to the agency about the origin of other sensitive material he published in a book. He faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted. In its criminal filing, the Justice Department obscured many of the details of Kiriakou's alleged disclosures. But the document suggests that Kiriakou was a source for stories by the New York Times and other news organizations in 2008 and 2009 about some of the agency's most sensitive operations after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. These include the capture of alleged al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubaida and the interrogation of the self-proclaimed mastermind of the attacks, Khalid Sheik Mohammed. Oh, so he was leaking stuff on Zero's watch. The nerve! The Justice Department said that the information Kiriakou supplied to journalists also contributed to a subsequent security breach at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, enabling defense attorneys there to obtain photographs of CIA operatives suspected of being involved in harsh interrogations. Some of the pictures were subsequently discovered in the cells of high-value detainees. So the full extent of the damage is not yet known? In an appearance in U.S. District Court in Alexandria on Monday afternoon, Magistrate Judge John F. Anderson set bond at $250,000 for Kiriakou, who was also forced to surrender his passport and restrict his travel to the Washington area. The surge in such prosecutions is seen as a measure of the Obama administration's determination to root out leaks, but it may also reflect the government's expanded ability to mine suspects' e-mail accounts and other digital devices for incriminating evidence. The complaint filed Monday includes numerous passages apparently taken from Kiriakou's e-mail exchanges with reporters as well as former CIA colleagues. Critics warn that the crackdown will erode the ability of news organizations to expose Oh, that's ironic. Except it's not - Obumble is going after those who embarrassed him. "The Justice Department has initiated no prosecutions concerning extreme interrogation methods," Aftergood said. "But it is now prosecuting an individual who helped bring such events to public light. Is that what we want?" 'Fraid so, Steven. CIA Director David H. Petraeus issued a statement to the agency's workforce on Monday in which he said that he could not comment on the details of the case against Kiriakou but warned that "the illegal passage of secrets is an abuse of trust that may put lives in jeopardy." The Washington Post quoted Kiriaku several times between 2007 and 2009 but Monday's charges make no reference to Post articles. Pre-emptive defense. Investigators believe that defense attorneys obtained the photos after learning the identities of CIA operatives from a journalist who had been in contact with Kiriakou. The photographs, which included shots taken surreptitiously outside CIA employees' homes, were shown to the detainees as part of an effort by defense attorneys to identify participants in CIA interrogations and potentially call them as witnesses in terrorism trials. Maybe the journalist was the one who leaked the identities. Maybe Kiriakou will roll on the newshound. The Guantanamo defense teams, which included attorneys from the ACLU, have been cleared of any wrongdoing in obtaining or sharing the photos, according to the Justice Department complaint. Somehow, that does not surprise me. So that leaves the journalist. |
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