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Podcast: John Kiriakou, Empire Has No Clothes Episode 4

He blew the whistle on torture and went from the CIA to prison. Man, he hates hypocrites.
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John Kiriakou had a stellar career in the CIA and on Capitol Hill until he spoke the truth. He was the first to talk about the CIA’s waterboarding techniques publicly and call it torture. For that, the federal government made sure he paid, and he did, with two years in prison beginning in 2013.

For Episode 4 of Empire Has No Clothes, my co-hosts Matt Purple and Daniel Larison and I talk to Kiriakou about the CIA’s torture practices during the Global War on Terror, his daily gig at (Russian!) Sputnik radio, Washington hypocrites, and Julian Assange. In the first segment we talk about how cozy defense contractors, especially Raytheon, seem to be in the Trump White House.

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