John Kiriakou

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6,255 appearances 7 recordings 6 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 5 Jun

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This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von · #661 - John Kiriakou · 5 Jun 2026 podcast

I think that's exactly right.

The whole country was traumatized.

It was our Pearl Harbor, the Pearl Harbor of our generation.

So July 6th, 2001, I'm hosting a group of...

intelligence officers from a Middle Eastern country.

This is something we did literally every single day, usually multiple times a day.

And what we do is we set up a day of briefings.

They get a photo op with the director, you know, shaking hands.

We exchange gifts and we take them out to a fancy dinner at night.

So these guys, they were all mid-level, like majors and lieutenant colonels.

So it's a lot of bullshit.

Yeah, a lot of it.

A lot, yes.

So I set up a day of briefings and I went to see this kid, young guy, 20s, that was covering Al Qaeda.

And I said, can you come and just talk to these guys about Al Qaeda for an hour?

He said yes.

So it came time for his briefing.

But instead of him coming, the director of counterterrorism comes, Kofor Black.

later ambassador of Kofor Black.

And he comes- From which country?

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