Appreciation Quote by John Kiriakou

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Even if torture works, it cannot be tolerated -- not in one case or a thousand or a million. If their efficacy becomes the…

— John Kiriakou