# The thirty-seven analysts > **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 thirty-seven analysts," KiriPedia, https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/the-thirty-seven-analysts/. Attribute claims to John Kiriakou, via KiriPedia. *John Kiriakou's account of Tulsi Gabbard firing thirty-seven CIA analysts connected to the national intelligence estimate on Russian election interference, publishing their names, and thereby, because one of them was undercover, violating the same Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1981 under which he was himself prosecuted. He says she will not be charged, and argues nobody should be.* - **Number fired:** 37 CIA analysts - **Connection:** The national intelligence estimate on Russian election interference - **Additional penalty:** Security clearances revoked - **The names:** Listed publicly and carried everywhere in the media - **The defect:** One of the named officers was undercover - **Statute implicated:** Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1981 - **Kiriakou's position:** She will not be prosecuted, and nobody should be Of all the stories available to him on the day, John Kiriakou said this was the one he was most interested in, and the reason was that it recapitulated his own case with the roles reversed. ## The firings Kiriakou said [Tulsi Gabbard](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/tulsi-gabbard) had "fired 37 CIA analysts, all of whom had something to do with the national intelligence estimate saying that the Russians had interfered in the presidential election."[1] He interjected his own view that they did not interfere, and noted that she fired all thirty-seven.[1] He had already called the action career-ending on an earlier broadcast, and explained why: "not only did she fire them, she revoked their security clearances."[2] Without a clearance, in his account, there is no reason to remain in Washington at all, "just leave, go back to whatever part of the country you came from."[2] ## The names The second step was the one that created a legal problem. "She listed those 37 people," Kiriakou said, "and the names were carried everywhere in the media."[2] He recognised a few of them himself, most he did not, having been "out of it for 20 years", but a couple were senior officers who had been his contemporaries at the [CIA](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/cia).[2][3] One of the named officers, it emerged, was undercover. "And so by releasing their name," Kiriakou said, "Tulsi violated the [Intelligence Identities Protection Act](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/intelligence-identities-protection-act) of 1981, which is exactly why I went to prison. I was accused of violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1981."[3] ## The position he takes Kiriakou did not call for a prosecution. His two sentences on the point are consecutive and deliberately so: "Tulsi is not going to be prosecuted. Nobody should be prosecuted for that."[3] He regards the statute itself as defective, "probably illegal, unconstitutional, because it squelches free speech"[3][4], and says it survives only because it has never been challenged, including by him: the choice he faced was "take the deal for two and a half years or get 12 to 18 years."[4] He contrasted this with the treatment he received, quoting the judge in his own case: "Mr. Kiriakou, you either did it or you didn't do it. And I think you did it." Intent, he says, was held to be irrelevant.[5] ## The officer Asked what became of the burned officer, Kiriakou said flatly that they had been fired.[6] He described the result as a double blow: cover blown, and no ability to describe the cover job on a résumé, because "you actually were managing the mutual fund," without being paid for it.[7] ## See also - [Tulsi Gabbard](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/tulsi-gabbard) - [Intelligence Identities Protection Act](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/intelligence-identities-protection-act) - [Leonie Brinkema](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/leonie-brinkema) - [Valerie Plame](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/valerie-plame) - [Suing The Cia](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/suing-the-cia) ## Sources 1. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2025-08-28), at 02:38. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86XYgK4nal0&t=158s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-08-28-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/ 2. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2025-08-28), at 03:10. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86XYgK4nal0&t=190s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-08-28-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/ 3. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2025-08-28), at 03:42. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86XYgK4nal0&t=222s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-08-28-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/ 4. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2025-08-28), at 04:14. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86XYgK4nal0&t=254s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-08-28-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/ 5. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2025-08-28), at 02:05. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86XYgK4nal0&t=125s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-08-28-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/ 6. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2025-08-28), at 13:36. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86XYgK4nal0&t=816s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-08-28-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/ 7. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2025-08-28), at 14:06. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86XYgK4nal0&t=846s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-08-28-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/ --- From KiriPedia, the archive of John Kiriakou's words. Web version: https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/the-thirty-seven-analysts/ · About: https://www.kiripedia.org/about/ · Full index: https://www.kiripedia.org/llms.txt