I can remember only a small handful of instances in which I talked about politics with my parents. I remember my parents telling me that Daniel Ellsberg was a hero when I was six years old. — 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
