John Kiriakou

They're all afraid.

And so they just tow the line.

That was Chuck Schumer.

He said, they have nine ways from Sunday to make your life miserable.

I think that's right.

But think of it this way, too.

I'm going to tell you a little funny little anecdote about one of my promotion panels.

I had been working with a psychologist in the CIA's counterterrorism center to come up with outside-the-box ideas on how to recruit spies to steal secrets.

And she happened to also sit on my promotion panel.

And she said in my promotion panel, in great support of my promotion, she said, John Kiriakou will come up with 40 different ideas for an operation.

36 of them are insane, but four of them are going to be really good.

So imagine sitting around the table and somebody comes up with an idea to put an explosive in Fidel Castro's cigar.

Well, that's a stupid idea.

If you're going to get close enough to put an explosive in the cigar, just shoot him in the head, for example, if that's what you really want to do.

So there are a lot of people sitting around a lot of conference room tables at the CIA coming up with really stupid ideas.

And then there are nodding heads all around the table saying, yeah, that's a great idea.

We should do that.

So, you know, the bottom line is this.

We know, thanks to WikiLeaks and the Vault 7 revelations, that the CIA can remotely take over your car.

They can make you drive off a bridge or into a tree or into an abutment and kill you if they want to.