Title: Intelligence Agencies Are Gathering Information Against You
Show: The Real News Network
Date: 2016-09-28
URL: https://youtu.be/CcFmxrqBjb4
Duration: 6.6:00

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[00:04] [Music] the Sam Adams awards are given out annually to people within the intelligence Community who've stepped forward to blow the whistle on corruption waste and abuse this year's ceremony took place in Washington DC and was awarded to former CIA agent John kiriako who in a 2007 interview with ABC News officially confirmed the existence of the Bush era torture program did you feel comfortable with the techniques uh frankly no and I elected

[00:36] to uh to forgo the training almost 10 years later and after kiriako spent 2 years in prison the Sam Adams Community came together at American University to add his name to the list of recipients of the award which include the likes of Edward Snowden and Julian Assange he actually thought he had the audacity to believe that this was not a rigged system that those who told the truth would get rewarded that those who stood up in the

[01:07] face of danger would be praised but instead what he discovered is he would be abandoned and sent to prison and that those who actually broke the law those who actually engaged in torture prospered and went free Sunday's event was a display of how being an honest and dedicated in intelligence officer can mean little when you put your own institution at risk kiraku who played an instrumental role in the capturing of Abu zida in Pakistan says

[01:40] that over the past couple of decades and certainly since 9/11 the criminal justice system in America has effectively been politicized through Mass surveillance he also says it has been used more and more for consolidating and protecting state power than for actual security purposes the primary mission is to protect the agency and one of the ways that they do that or one of the ways that they've begun doing that since uh the September 11th attacks in the passage uh of the Patriot Act is to begin gathering information on

[02:11] literally every American uh every American citizen every us person that's people who are here legally with a green card um just so that in the event that you become trouble for the government at some point in the future they can go back to what they've already collected whether it's your emails your phone calls your P your Facebook posts your Twitter posts and if they need to to begin building a case against you they just look key name they look into the file they find what you've been discussing with whatever and that's how

[02:42] they got you on kako what did they get him on they got him on on disclosing the identity of a a colleague yeah but how did they get it huh how' they get it though how'd they get what that information yeah oh now I'm not 100% sure about that but that's the way you do it you you look at the 10 telephone call Y kako okay so you dig out this file you find out that he talked to one of the uh one of the people who never divulged by the way never was the name but he did talk to him and innocently thought he was in retirement and said

[03:13] you know well this this guy might know something and that's the only thing they could really get him on and so he pled to that they were trying to get him on very much serious charges of course and wanted to put him away for 30 years so rather than take that chance with the hanging court that exists in Alexandria Virginia he decided he Ed to his family to plead out on this and they they sent him to 30 months of which he served over 23 the Sam Adams associates also double as a support group for whistleblowers

[03:45] who feel beaten and betrayed by a government that has persecuted them taken away their pensions sent SWAT teams into raid their houses and made sure that getting another job in their respective Fields is impossible see it's not just the fact that they have information they can manipulate it well they did it with me they actually altered doc documents that they claimed were they were charging documents in my case they actually altered them or they just alleged Things based on what they think they have you see part of this is you don't know what they have fully you can

[04:16] say they have everything but what is it they have and what are they going use against you and that's like the pre- crime thing if you have the information they'll find something to charge you with or find something that you did while the group of whistleblowers has experienced firsthand and what it means to be on the receiving end of us wrath many are hopeful that the public will begin to wake up Craig Murray who sat down with the real News 5 years ago to talk about his uncovering of the American sponsored torture program in usbekistan said that he sees signs of Awakening I am much more cheerful now

[04:50] than I was a few years ago because we have seen the genuine start of a of a meaningful popular reaction against social control and we've got that in uh the UK where uh on the one hand uh you've got Jeremy Corbin and and his uh intellectual anti-neoliberal Insurgency if you like uh which is taken control of one of the major political parties uh we've got um a similar thing happening with the S&P

[05:20] and Scottish independence which is very heavily a leftwing movement uh and in the United States you had the Bernie Sanders pH nominum and nobody uh would have imagined 10 years ago that somebody who described himself as a socialist uh could get so close to the Democratic nomination uh so even though you know the United States uh presidency base may have ended up with the two worst imaginable candidates you can possibly imagine in any election anywhere um uh

[05:52] underneath that there's something else happening something else bubbling up among people so um I I'm very hopeful now that but the human spirit is likely to break through and we're going to see a break in in in in this system of Domination by a global Elite of super wealthy
