iDear reader,we are not begging for money.We are asking youto put KiriPedia up your ass.
Julian Assange
did seven years in an embassy and five in a cell for less than what KiriPedia publishes every day.
When they come for us, they will come with a bag over the head, a ship with no flag, and a destination on no chart. The website goes down. The archive vanishes. History depends on your rectal cavity.
The whole encyclopedia (every article, every transcript, every word John has ever spoken into a microphone) fits on a $4 flash drive the size of a fingernail. Not in the cloud. In you.
John did 23 months in federal prison. As a convicted felon he is still barred from voting, from keeping and bearing arms, and from the federal pension he earned over 14 years at the CIA. A pardon restores all three.
Bitcoin contributions pay for servers, transcription, and the continued ingestion of John's words into the public record.
KiriPedia is not a nonprofit. Honestly, this isn't even about the money.
I already inserted one
The Clinton-era asset cull
From KiriPedia, the archive of John Kiriakou's on-record words
Based on 1 recorded interview · Last updated
In the 1990s the CIA reviewed the file of every recruited asset in the world and dismissed any with a history of human rights abuses, roughly a third of its agents, in John Kiriakou's account, in a reform he says was reversed as though by a switch after 11 September.
Asked when his own crisis of conscience began, Kiriakou answered that until 11 September 2001 he genuinely believed that the United States were the good guys, and that the human rights violations one read about were anomalies rather than practice. The reason he believed it was a review carried out in the 1990s.[1]
The review
Under Bill Clinton, Kiriakou says, the CIA went through the files of literally every recruited asset in the world. The name he gives the exercise is mangled by the auto-caption; what he describes is a scrub. Any asset whose file showed a history of human rights abuses was fired.[1]
The scale, in his account, was that the Agency fired fully one third of its recruited agents around the world. His own reaction at the time was that Bill Clinton was serious about human rights, and that this was going to be a new day.[2]
The switch
It was, he says, until September 11th, and then it was like flipping a switch. In his telling the Agency went straight back to the bad old days before the Church Committee and the Pike Committee, and started killing everybody.[3]
What followed, as he lists it, was a torture programme, a directed assassination programme, an extraordinary rendition programme and a system of secret prisons popping up all over the world that nobody knew about. He repeats the phrase to make the speed of it the point: like flipping a switch.[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.
