John Kiriakou

She was called to HR.

She was reprimanded, had a memo put in her file.

She wasn't eligible for promotion for a year because she had violated the cardinal rule that we do not take political positions.

And I remember thinking, wow.

And then we got to the point in the not too distant future where the CIA is so politicized that you end up with 51 senior intelligence service officers lying in writing that the Hunter Biden laptop bore all the hallmarks of a Russian intelligence operation, information operation.

Like, how did we get there?

I had no idea.

I'll give you another example.

The 1992 election, we had a morning meeting like we did every morning.

Every group in the entire CIA has its morning meeting at nine o'clock to just discuss whatever happened in the region that you cover the night before.

And my boss said at that end of that morning meeting, he said, I know we're not supposed to do this, but I'm just really curious who you guys voted for this morning.

And I thought, oh, yeah, we never talk about stuff like that.

I still remember it was three for Bush, three for Clinton, and two for Perot.

And I remember thinking, wow, that's interesting.

But I would never have known.

Well, now it's like, you know, everybody was in bed with Obama.

Everybody was in bed with Biden.

How did that happen?

How did we get there so quickly?

When you know what the rules are, the rules are very clear.