John Kiriakou

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.

They can turn your smart TV into a microphone.

They can reverse engineer your speaker to turn into a microphone so they can listen to everything you're saying, even when the TV is off.

The technology is 20 years ahead of what anybody else thinks the technology is.

Without a warrant.

You know, at the CIA.

I mean, that's disturbing.

In training, they used to tell us all the time, our job is to break the law.

And I remember saying, yeah, but not here.

The job is to break the law over there.

Yeah, but.

I was perfectly happy and on multiple occasions actively participated in breaking into people's houses or offices and planting bugs and cameras.

We're the good guys.

That's what we have to do.