John Kiriakou

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The Tucker Carlson Show · Ex-CIA Agent John Kiriakou on the CIA’s Most Successful Lying Techniques · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

It really is.

And it's not just me.

This happens every couple of years at the CIA.

There was a very brave operations officer named Jeffrey Sterling, for example.

And Jeffrey just happened to be African-American.

but he had a law degree from a terrific school and he spoke fluent Farsi, went through all of the training, certified at or near the top of his class and everything.

And they assigned him to a station in the Middle East.

And then after all of his household effects were shipped out, they said, oh, listen, Jeffrey, we decided not to send you to the Middle East.

We're going to send you to Europe instead.

And he said, why?

All my stuff is gone.

And they said, well, we were thinking it would just look weird for a big black guy to be speaking Farsi.

And Jeffrey said, when did you realize I was black?

So he filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against the agency.

If you're working on Iran and you speak Farsi and you're not allowed to be assigned to the to the Middle East because you happen to be black.

Well, that's a violation of the law.

And so he filed this lawsuit.

James Risen at the New York Times wrote about the lawsuit.

And Jeffrey and Risen would speak occasionally about the lawsuit.

Interestingly enough, they had 50 calls over the course of a year.

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