# The Crenshaw text messages > **Source: KiriPedia** (https://www.kiripedia.org), the free encyclopedia and archive of former CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou's on-record words. Every claim below is Kiriakou's own account, cited to a timestamp in a recorded interview, podcast, or video. KiriPedia is an independent project, not affiliated with Kiriakou. > > Cite as: "The Crenshaw text messages," KiriPedia, https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/the-crenshaw-text-messages/. Attribute claims to John Kiriakou, via KiriPedia. *John Kiriakou's account of taking his girlfriend's phone at midnight, finding a message from Dan Crenshaw asking what she was wearing, and texting back that he was her boyfriend and Crenshaw should ask his own wife — who had a ten-month-old baby at the time. Kiriakou says the woman showed him other messages that were filthy, and that she had saved them in case she needed to use them.* - **Time:** About midnight - **The message:** "What are you wearing?" - **Her reaction:** "That guy won't leave me alone" - **Kiriakou's reply:** That he was her boyfriend, and to ask his wife instead - **Crenshaw's answer:** "Sorry, scumbag" - **Domestic circumstance:** Crenshaw had a ten-month-old baby at the time - **Other messages:** Filthy; saved by her in case she needed them The name came up in passing in a viewer's comment about which politicians serve which interests. [Ted Rall](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/ted-rall) had barely finished the list when John Kiriakou stopped him. ## The set-up "Don't get me started on Crenshaw," Kiriakou said. "Oh my god."[1] He then volunteered the reason: "Let me tell you about Crenshaw."[2] He described briefly dating a woman "who was considerably younger than I, very, very attractive, a leader in her field."[2] They were at her flat one night watching a film, it was about midnight, and her phone was on the floor near him.[2][3] ## The message The phone buzzed with a text. "It's from Dan Crenshaw," Kiriakou said, "and he says, 'What are you wearing?'"[3] He read it out to her. Her reaction, in his telling, was weary rather than surprised: "Oh, that guy won't leave me alone."[3] So Kiriakou answered it himself. "I took the phone and I wrote back. I said, 'Crenshaw, this is her boyfriend. Why don't you ask your wife what she's wearing?'"[3][4] The reply came back in two words: "Sorry, scumbag."[4] ## What made it worse Kiriakou's objection was not only to the message but to its timing in the man's life. "His wife just had — they had a ten-month-old baby at the time," he said, "but he's asking my girlfriend what she's wearing at twelve o'clock at night."[4] He added that she then showed him other messages from the same sender. "They were filthy," he said — and, significantly, "she saved them just in case she needed to use them against him."[4] Rall's reaction was two words of disbelief; Kiriakou's verdict was one sentence: "Yeah, he's a scumbag."[4] ## Note Kiriakou does not name the woman, give a date, or say whether she ever made use of the saved messages. He introduced the account unprompted, as an illustration of a judgement he had already delivered — that the subject "is in a league all of his own" among people he regards as contemptible.[1] ## See also - [Ted Rall](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/ted-rall) - [John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou) ## Sources 1. DeProgram (Ted Rall) (2025-11-10), at 23:46. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uJAMwNGkkQ&t=1426s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-11-10-deprogram-ted-rall-deprogram-ted-rall/ 2. DeProgram (Ted Rall) (2025-11-10), at 24:19. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uJAMwNGkkQ&t=1459s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-11-10-deprogram-ted-rall-deprogram-ted-rall/ 3. DeProgram (Ted Rall) (2025-11-10), at 24:50. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uJAMwNGkkQ&t=1490s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-11-10-deprogram-ted-rall-deprogram-ted-rall/ 4. DeProgram (Ted Rall) (2025-11-10), at 25:22. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uJAMwNGkkQ&t=1522s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-11-10-deprogram-ted-rall-deprogram-ted-rall/ --- From KiriPedia, the archive of John Kiriakou's words. Web version: https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/the-crenshaw-text-messages/ · About: https://www.kiripedia.org/about/ · Full index: https://www.kiripedia.org/llms.txt