CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou: The CIA has co-opted American journalists

John Kiriakou is a former CIA analyst and case officer. He was the first U.S. government official to confirm that waterboarding was used to interrogate al-Qaeda prisoners. In 2012, he became the only CIA officer to be convicted for exposing the CIA's torture program.

On September 28, 2024, Dimitri Lascaris spoke with John Kiriakou about the ongoing hysteria around alleged foreign interference in Western elections. Lascaris and Kiriakou also discussed the extraordinary degree to which Western intelligence agencies now control the political discourse in the Western corporate media.