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Fridays at the agency
From KiriPedia, the archive of John Kiriakou's on-record words
Based on 1 recorded interview · Last updated
John Kiriakou's observation that Fridays were always very slow at the CIA, because the Middle East weekend falls on Thursday-Friday or Friday-Saturday depending on the country and the quiet propagates back to Washington, a rhythm he says bled into the United States generally.
Fridays at the agency is a working observation John Kiriakou says he took from his time at the CIA and has kept since: that the last working day of the American week is almost always the emptiest.
“I got this from the agency when I was at the agency,” he says, “Fridays at the CIA were always very, very slow.”[1][2]
The reason he gives is not American at all. Business stops early because “everything’s closed in the Middle East on either Thursday and Friday or Friday and Saturday, depending on the country you’re in. They have different weekends.” For an agency whose traffic in his years was dominated by the region, that meant the cables had already stopped coming in.[2]
He treats the effect as having spread beyond the building. “That sort of bled into the United States, too. It’s usually quieter on a Friday.”Congress is generally not in session, and “even when they’re in session, they’re going home on Thursday nights.”[2][3]
He raised it on Halloween 2025 to note that the rule had failed: “man, there is so much to talk about today. It’s busy. And none of it is good news.”[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.
