John Kiriakou
speaker
6,255 appearances
7 recordings
6 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 5 Jun
John Kiriakou’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There are two like more uncomfortable chairs over here for the CIA director and the national security advisor.
And we sit down and the president goes, well, now what do we do?
And then everybody turns and looks at me and I'm looking at them.
And then it took me a second, and I'm like, oh, as you know, Mr. President, Iraqi troops crossed the border at 4 o'clock this morning, and the Kuwaiti ruling family fled to Saudi Arabia, blah, blah, blah, blah.
But I remember thinking –
my friends would never believe in a million years what I was doing right now.
They would never believe it.
And I was 20, I was 25 years old.
That actually was kind of a recurring theme in my career.
I was just very, very lucky.
Got it.
A lot of times.
Yeah.
You really feel it.
No.
No.
9-11 changed everything and it changed it permanently in a bunch of different ways.
Not just – have you ever heard of Executive Order 12333?
I haven't.
1-2-3-3-3 was signed by Gerald Ford.
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