John Kiriakou
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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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And it came in the aftermath of the Church and Pike Committees.
And yeah, the responsibilities and guidelines for the U.S.
intelligence community.
Well, this was after the church commission, right?
Exactly.
They said, you got to stop killing people.
And we had these like, you know, we're putting explosives in Fidel Castro's cigar and putting poison on the steering wheel of his car and stupid stuff.
And so one, two, three, three, three, real Tom and Jerry shit.
Yeah, exactly.
You can't do that stuff anymore.
And then it's been amended over the years.
Well, after nine 11 Bush is just like, just kill everybody you want.
Wow.
And so we set up these offices and,
One whole office called the Special Activities Division.
And then there's, in the Counterterrorism Center where I was working, there was one called the Special Activities Group.
And their job, very simply, was just to send teams around the world, kill people, come back, get the list for the next week, go out there, kill them, come back, get another list, kill those guys.
It was like nobody was trying to collect intelligence anymore.
I take a lot of shit because I don't believe in them.
My point of view actually has changed.
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