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Covert action programs — The most tightly held category of American intelligence activity — so tightly held, John Kiriakou says, that a serving CIA officer may not utter the phrase in public. Which is why he found it extraordinary that a president announced one on television, and doubts the announcement was straightforwardly true. (Full article…)
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Did you know …
- … that John Kiriakou says Christopher Hitchens, who had once dismissed waterboarding as nothing, tapped out of his 2008 filmed demonstration after about seventeen seconds and thereafter suffered panic attacks for the rest of his life whenever he could not breathe for a moment?
- … that John Kiriakou teaches private surveillance-detection courses through a company called IV Cyber — and that his CIA training was so thorough that he nearly crashed his car convinced a pickup truck was following him on Interstate 64, before it turned off at the next exit?
- … that per John Kiriakou, a CIA friend was shown an entire wall of paper files on his first day in the Office of Counterintelligence — every one on an American — "thousands of them," patently illegal under the Church Committee framework?
- … that per John Kiriakou, the United States has always needed an ism to oppose — anarchism in the 1910s, then communism, then terrorism?
- … that the CIA was never allowed to meet or polygraph Curveball, the German source whose fake WMD reports were used to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq — and that he made it all up to try to immigrate to the United States?
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