John Kiriakou

I get so frustrated even just listening to the man speak.

Lindsey Graham has been all over the map ideologically.

Well, I think he's concluded that neoconservatism is ascendant.

And so he's jumped back in.

He apparently has the president's ear.

And so he's the Trump whisperer telling the president, attack, attack, attack.

But extending that to a draft...

just does not have the same kind of support.

It's one thing for Lindsey Graham to say, the president should be free to bomb our enemies and to send troops and to send, you know, naval strike forces.

Okay.

I strongly disagree.

I think what you're saying is illegal, but okay.

I get that this is a matter for debate.

Reinstating the draft is

It clearly and obviously can only be done by congressional action, and the votes are not there.

You're going to have to tear the place down to the studs, and you're going to have to enact real controls.

I'll give you an example, and this may sound silly, but I think it's important.

When I first joined the CIA, I had literally no idea the political views of the people that I was working with.

No idea, I should say, with whom I was working.

In 1996, a woman that I sat next to got in trouble for discreetly taping up a Bob Dole for President bumper sticker in her own cubicle.