Just watched an interview with John Kiriakou on a show hosted by James O'Keefe and it was actually a pretty wild listen.

Kiriakou is a former CIA officer who did about 15 years in counterterrorism work after 9/11. He’s best known for being the first U.S. official to publicly confirm that the CIA was using waterboarding. That decision basically blew up his career and eventually led to him serving prison time. He talks a lot about how the interrogation program worked, what the internal culture was like, and how he feels the government treated him compared to others who were involved but never faced charges.

He frames himself as someone who believed in the mission but drew a line when it came to torture and accountability. The tone is very much “I was loyal to the team until I couldn’t be anymore,” and he compares the intelligence world to an organization that protects its own until someone steps out of bounds.

On Kash Patel, he’s skeptical and suggests Patel represents a more aggressively partisan approach to intelligence and federal law enforcement. He did mention he likes Kash but believes there is basically nobody who can truly fix the FBI, essentially an impossible mission. On Pam Bondi, he’s critical as well, portraying her as someone aligned with tough-on-crime, establishment-style prosecution policies that he believes often protect institutions more than they protect civil liberties. All in all, he likes Kash and Bondi but was also critical.

They discussed Epstein stuff also but says statute of limitations hurts much of these cases.

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Posted on 2/27/26 at 3:38 pm to Mushroom1968

He's been on Tucker and Rogan recently, he's making the rounds. Definitely an interesting listen.

Shows how big of a piece of shite John Brennan was/is.

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Posted on 2/27/26 at 3:52 pm to DCtiger1

Never too late to get to fleecing rubes

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Posted on 2/27/26 at 3:58 pm to DCtiger1

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He's been on Tucker and Rogan recently, he's making the rounds. Definitely an interesting listen.

Shows how big of a piece of shite John Brennan was/is.

He's all over the podcast scene and YouTube interviews. Has been for a while. He's not shy.