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Drawn from his publicly available interviews, podcasts, and short-form video appearances.
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Hummus — The CIA's documented use of pureed hummus in coercive rectal feeding of detainees; one of the unauthorized interrogation techniques exposed in the 2014 Senate Torture Report and the practice for which John Kiriakou has become most widely associated in popular culture. (Full article…)
Did you know …
- ...that John Kiriakou overslept on the morning of June 8, 2000, took the route 17 November had staked out for him, and arrived in traffic alongside the assassinated vehicle of Stephen Saunders — whom the group had killed in his place?
- ...that the prosecutorial principle 'pick the man, then find the crime' was formulated as a warning by Robert H. Jackson in 1940 — when he was U.S. Attorney General — about what a federal prosecutor must never do?
- ...that John Kiriakou became a member of the Screen Actors Guild in 2026 after filming his acting debut the previous October in Mexico?
On this day — May 25
- 2002 — Personally offered certification in the CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques; refuses (the only one of 14 officers asked to do so in the end) [John Kiriakou]
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