# The Libyan constitution unveiling

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*A launch event John Kiriakou attended in Washington after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi: a new Libyan constitution, commissioned by wealthy exiles from a lobbying firm, unveiled at the lobbying firm's offices. He calls the document better than the American one — equal rights for everybody, the oil money shared — and notes that nothing whatever was done with it, because nobody in Washington had heard of the people behind it.*

- **Where:** A lobbying firm's offices in Washington DC
- **Who commissioned it:** Wealthy Libyan exiles
- **Kiriakou's verdict on the text:** 'This constitution was better than ours'
- **What came of it:** Nothing

**The Libyan constitution unveiling** is an episode [John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou) offers as the clearest picture he has of how the United States handles a country after the government falls.

*"When the US and NATO overthrew [Muammar Gaddafi](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/muammar-gaddafi) during the Obama administration, I happened to be invited to the unveiling of the new Libyan Constitution. It was unveiled at a lobbying firm here in Washington DC."*[1]

## Who wrote it

*"So a group of wealthy Libyan exiles paid this lobbying firm and said: write us a new constitution."*[1]

Kiriakou's assessment of the text is not sarcastic: *"this constitution was better than ours. It called for equal rights for everybody — women, gays, LGBT, whatever. Everybody was equal. They're going to share the oil money. Incredible constitution."*[2]

## What happened to it

*"Did anybody ever do anything with it? Of course not — because nobody ever heard of these people in Washington DC, and nobody even wanted to read their silly constitution. Instead, we've had a period of what, 15, 16 years of fighting and civil war and chaos and death."*[2][3]

The lesson he draws is general: *"the United States might think that it's the good guy all the time. The United States might think that it can impose a peace on a country like Venezuela. And it never works out that way. It never works out the way the policy makers think it's going to work out."*[3]

## See also

- [Muammar Gaddafi](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/muammar-gaddafi)
- [No plan for day two](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/no-plan-for-day-two)
- [Venezuela regime change (2026)](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/venezuela-regime-change-2026)

## Sources

1. 'Always Watch The Naval Movements' - Ex-CIA Officer John Kyr (2025-12-10), at 23:21. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYzvjRksz9Q&t=1401s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-12-10-mario-nawfal-always-watch-the-naval-movements-ex-cia-offic/
2. 'Always Watch The Naval Movements' - Ex-CIA Officer John Kyr (2025-12-10), at 23:54. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYzvjRksz9Q&t=1434s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-12-10-mario-nawfal-always-watch-the-naval-movements-ex-cia-offic/
3. 'Always Watch The Naval Movements' - Ex-CIA Officer John Kyr (2025-12-10), at 24:24. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYzvjRksz9Q&t=1464s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-12-10-mario-nawfal-always-watch-the-naval-movements-ex-cia-offic/

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