John Kiriakou

So maybe one of the things that you can do, or that anybody can do, is to identify people who really are seeking the truth,

without a political agenda, and follow them.

Oh, Max Blumenthal or Aaron Mate, M-A-T-E.

They're both terrific writers and analysts.

Just excellent.

Gideon Levy at Haaretz in Israel is one of the

the clearest thinkers on these issues that I've ever encountered and is not afraid of his own government.

He just wants the truth of a story.

He's fantastic.

I do follow Al Jazeera just because I know so many of them at Al Jazeera.

And you can't rely on them for news about the Gulf because they're owned by the government of Qatar.

But on the Arab-Israeli dispute, they're terrific.

I've changed dramatically in the intervening years.

Not just because I'm so much older and more worldly, more mature, but my core beliefs about my own government have changed.

I used to think that it was just so easy, so clear, there are good guys and bad guys and we're the good guys.

And that's just not, life is not that clear cut.

It's not that simple.

And I've also come around on the idea of foreign interventions.

I made my bones at the CIA with the Iraqi invasion and occupation of Kuwait.

And I went into Kuwait City with Marines on Liberation Day, February 17th, 1991.