John Kiriakou
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
The wall worked.
Yes, our border with Mexico is long.
Much of the land is just desolate.
It's desert.
It's wasteland.
But the wall works.
Of course.
That's why Israel has them.
On the contrary, on the contrary, the CIA has something called the...
It used to be called the Counter-Narcotics Center.
Now it's called the Crime and Narcotics Center.
And that is the graveyard where people's careers go to die.
Yeah, the CIA doesn't care about stopping the flow of drugs.
They just don't care.
You know, this wonderful show on Netflix, Narcos.
Yes.
So in seasons one and two, just as the DEA is going to go in and grab Pablo Escobar or grab the gentleman of Cali, the CIA station chief comes in and just screws the whole thing up.
That's in that show because that's what happens in real life.
The CIA at the time cared only about communism and stopping communism.
And if the drug cartels were going to tell the CIA where the communists were hiding, then the CIA was a-okay with the drug cartels.