You can't just blurt the information out to the Russian foreign minister and the Russian ambassador. What happens is, the information goes back to the CIA, to the originating office. The CIA will pull the relevant information out of the… — John Kiriakou Copy Share Image
Immediately after the September 11th attacks, I volunteered to go to Afghanistan in any capacity that the CIA wanted me. Four months passed before… — John Kiriakou Copy Share Image
It's not up to Google, it's not up to Apple to turn over our personal communications in order to save the country. It's up… — John Kiriakou Copy Share Image
I can remember only a small handful of instances in which I talked about politics with my parents. I remember my parents telling me… — John Kiriakou Copy Share Image
If the CIA is going to disrupt future terrorist attacks, it needs to recruit spies to infiltrate those groups in order to disrupt the… — John Kiriakou Copy Share Image
The CIA has transformed from an organization created to recruit spies to steal secrets, into a paramilitary organization, a paramilitary force. It's not supposed… — John Kiriakou Copy Share Image
I've never heard a White House staff say that the president was too stupid or too ill-informed to have broken the law. And that's… — John Kiriakou Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is, we can certainly fight against terrorism and fight terrorist groups around the world without having to give up… — John Kiriakou Copy Share Image
You can't just blurt the information out to the Russian foreign minister and the Russian ambassador. What happens is, the information goes back to… — John Kiriakou Copy Share Image
I had never really given any thought to working for the CIA, but graduation was upon me; I was getting married just a week… — John Kiriakou Copy Share Image
The big issue is this incremental whittling away of our constitutional rights, our most important constitutional rights, including freedom of speech. This is something… — John Kiriakou Copy Share Image
I think the president, very simply, has never read a copy of the Constitution. I think that that's true. He's just never bothered to… — John Kiriakou Copy Share Image
It's much less romantic in that you have to go to www.cia.gov and click "Apply Now." For me it was much more clandestine. — John Kiriakou Copy Share Image
