John Kiriakou

People ask me all the time, where do you get your news?

And the answer, and I hate to say it, but is I get it everywhere because you can't trust just one or even two or even five outlets.

You have to get it from everywhere and then immerse yourself in the information to the point where you can make an educated analytic conclusion.

So I start off with, you know, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the LA Times, the Times of London, the Wall Street Journal.

my hometown paper just for the sports.

And then I go to Associated Press, CNN, MSNBC, Fox, then Al Jazeera.

I do a couple of the smaller Middle Eastern outlets.

But your hours every day just immersing yourself in the news, hoping to get bits and pieces.

I do the Jerusalem Post and Haaretz every morning.

I have subscriptions to both.

You can't trust any one outlet.

You have to trust in yourself and then trust in your ability to make that analysis make sense in your own position.

It is a quandary.

What I've done for a few years now is I've begun following people I respect on Twitter, X, and relying on them

to give me the news that they think is important.

So I'm getting the whole mainstream view from the mainstream outlets.

But then I know, for example, that Alexander Makuras at the Duran knows everything that's happening in Ukraine, for example, or that

Max Blumenthal at The Gray Zone knows everything that's happening in Iran right now.

I have some friends who cover Latin America, and I trust them.

I know how honest they are and what great analysts they are.