# The USS Abraham Lincoln crisis > **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 USS Abraham Lincoln crisis," KiriPedia, https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/uss-abraham-lincoln-crisis-2026/. Attribute claims to John Kiriakou, via KiriPedia. *The September 2026 reporting John Kiriakou aired on his own show describing sailor mental-health collapse aboard the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, sailors attempting to jump overboard, socks stuffed into toilets to force a return home, food indistinguishable from federal prison food, and messages scrawled on the wing of a parked aircraft including *"All this for the Holy Land"* and *"Be a good boy and do what Israel tells you to"*. Kiriakou reads the crisis as the point at which the American military begins to notice, and reject, the wars its civilian leadership is picking.* - **Ship:** USS Abraham Lincoln (aircraft carrier) - **Deployment:** The second-longest since the Vietnam War - **Reported by:** USA Today (photos of galley food); Kiriakou's own show - **Symptoms:** Sailors attempting to jump overboard; a plumbing system so broken that 45-minute-to-1-hour queues formed for a bathroom; socks stuffed into toilets, believed to be sailors trying to force the ship home - **Pentagon response:** Pete Hegseth, Trump, and the Secretary of the Navy denied the reporting in quick succession, while simultaneously replacing the Lincoln with the USS George Washington and cancelling joint South Korea maneuvers to do it - **Aircraft-wing messages (per Kiriakou):** *"Peace deal number 64 incoming"*, *"All this for the Holy Land"*, *"Operation Epstein Fury"*, *"Be a good boy and do what Israel tells you to"*, *"BB's cucks"* **The USS Abraham Lincoln crisis** is the September 2026 collapse of conditions aboard the U.S. Navy's most advanced aircraft carrier that [John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou) aired on his own show, reports of sailors attempting to jump overboard, a plumbing system in ruin, prison-grade rations, and the messages sailors were leaving on their own aircraft. ## The reporting *"Last week, reports emerged describing conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, which is an aircraft carrier, that sound extraordinary. Sailors allegedly attempting to jump overboard because their mental health is cracking; shortages of fresh food; broken toilets, and not just toilets, but the whole plumbing system; and at sometimes 45-minute or one-hour-long waits just to use the bathroom. That sounds like prison. All of that is what I experienced in prison."*[1][2] ## The socks-in-the-toilet theory Kiriakou's reading of the plumbing failure is not accident but sabotage-by-exhaustion. *"Many people suspect all of this is happening because soldiers are stuffing socks into toilets. They're desperate to be sent home. They've had enough. This is the second-longest deployment since the Vietnam War."*[2] ## The Pentagon's denial Kiriakou treats the swiftness of the pushback as evidence. *"When three senior officials immediately deny reporting, run in front of a camera to deny reporting, that's often a sign that the reporting is true. You had Pete Hegseth, for example, say that it was false. Then Donald Trump said it was false. Then the Secretary of the Navy put out a statement saying it was false. All while immediately moving to replace the USS Abraham Lincoln with another aircraft carrier, the USS George Washington, and trying to tell people that this is all just part of a normal rotation. Well, if it was part of a normal rotation, why did we cancel joint maneuvers with South Korea to pull the George Washington out and send it to replace the Abraham Lincoln?"*[3][4] ## The prison-food comparison USA Today obtained photographs of galley meals, *"beans and some canned carrots. I don't even know what the meat is, but this is what we were served in prison. Like literally, I could take this picture and show it to somebody I was in prison with and they'd say, 'Yeah, that's from the Chow Hall.'"* A subsequent photograph, offered as *"fresh food"*: *"two hard-boiled eggs and, I don't know, grits, something. I can't even tell what that is."*[5][6][7] ## The messages on the wing The line Kiriakou returns to is the aircraft-wing photograph, *"a wing of a US aircraft covered in dust and soot and smog. But look at some of the messages people are writing: 'Peace deal number 64 incoming.' 'All this for the Holy Land.' 'Operation Epstein Fury.' 'Be a good boy and do what Israel tells you to.' 'I love flock cameras.' 'BB's cucks.'"*[8][9] His message to Israeli readers: *"You've lost the American public. You've lost the American military. You've got to stop. The United States is not going to fight your wars for you indefinitely. Donald Trump isn't going to be president forever, and you're not going to be able to push around every American, and you cannot intimidate the rest of us into silence. It's not going to work."*[10][11] ## See also - [2026 Iran war](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/2026-iran-war) - [Pete Hegseth](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/pete-hegseth) - [FCI Loretto](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/fci-loretto) ## Sources 1. 2026-09-06-john-kiriakou-israel-is-going-after-me-for-my-show, at 05:40. Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-09-06-john-kiriakou-israel-is-going-after-me-for-my-show/ 2. 2026-09-06-john-kiriakou-israel-is-going-after-me-for-my-show, at 06:12. Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-09-06-john-kiriakou-israel-is-going-after-me-for-my-show/ 3. 2026-09-06-john-kiriakou-israel-is-going-after-me-for-my-show, at 06:44. Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-09-06-john-kiriakou-israel-is-going-after-me-for-my-show/ 4. 2026-09-06-john-kiriakou-israel-is-going-after-me-for-my-show, at 07:15. Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-09-06-john-kiriakou-israel-is-going-after-me-for-my-show/ 5. 2026-09-06-john-kiriakou-israel-is-going-after-me-for-my-show, at 07:45. Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-09-06-john-kiriakou-israel-is-going-after-me-for-my-show/ 6. 2026-09-06-john-kiriakou-israel-is-going-after-me-for-my-show, at 08:17. Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-09-06-john-kiriakou-israel-is-going-after-me-for-my-show/ 7. 2026-09-06-john-kiriakou-israel-is-going-after-me-for-my-show, at 08:47. Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-09-06-john-kiriakou-israel-is-going-after-me-for-my-show/ 8. 2026-09-06-john-kiriakou-israel-is-going-after-me-for-my-show, at 09:19. Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-09-06-john-kiriakou-israel-is-going-after-me-for-my-show/ 9. 2026-09-06-john-kiriakou-israel-is-going-after-me-for-my-show, at 09:52. Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-09-06-john-kiriakou-israel-is-going-after-me-for-my-show/ 10. 2026-09-06-john-kiriakou-israel-is-going-after-me-for-my-show, at 10:23. Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-09-06-john-kiriakou-israel-is-going-after-me-for-my-show/ 11. 2026-09-06-john-kiriakou-israel-is-going-after-me-for-my-show, at 10:56. Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-09-06-john-kiriakou-israel-is-going-after-me-for-my-show/ --- From KiriPedia, the archive of John Kiriakou's words. Web version: https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/uss-abraham-lincoln-crisis-2026/ · About: https://www.kiripedia.org/about/ · Full index: https://www.kiripedia.org/llms.txt