Consortium News is an independent investigative news outlet John Kiriakou has written for. He says he went to work for the outlet out of respect for its editor, Joe Lauria — formerly of the Christian Science Monitor and, for roughly a decade, the United Nations correspondent for the Wall Street Journal — and for its founder, Robert Parry, a Polk Award-winning journalist who was one of the major forces behind breaking the Iran-Contra story.[1]
The PayPal dispute
Kiriakou describes PayPal permanently shuttering Consortium News’s account, initially seizing the $9,350 held in it. The company only released the funds after public complaints — and, even then, continued to refuse to reinstate the account.[2]