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The weekly diversion John Kiriakou remembers from his posting to Pakistan after September 11th, when the station worked seven days a week and fourteen hours a day: on Wednesday nights the ambassador hosted a film in the embassy's small theatre, and the audience shouted at the screen and threw popcorn at whatever they had managed to get hold of.
Embassy movie night is a detail John Kiriakou offered in July 2026, by his own description as an aside, about one of the very few bits of joy available during his posting to Pakistan after September 11th.[1]
The routine
The station was working seven days a week and fourteen hours a day, which Kiriakou calls ridiculous. On Wednesday nights the ambassador hosted a film in the embassy’s little mini theatre.[1]
They watched whatever they could get their hands on, and the viewing became a running joke: the audience shouted at the screen and threw popcorn at it. The example he remembers is a film he gives as How Shantae Got Her Man Back, at which the room was screaming “don’t take him back, Shantae, he’s no good.”[2]
Why he mentioned it
The memory arrived by association. Kiriakou had just said he would not want to watch the documentary footage of Lindsey Graham then in the news, and then corrected himself — he would force himself to watch it, and would end up shouting at the screen.[1]
He finishes the parallel explicitly: “That’s how I feel about Lindsey Graham. I’m going to shout at the screen.”[3]
Sourced from John Kiriakou's on-record public statements. See his profile for the full body of his interviews, podcast appearances, and short-form video.
