What's your opinion on John Kiriakou
2026-04-10 18:11 UTC
Replies (11)
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@Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 2026-04-11 13:19
He said he’s fluent in Arabic and thats how he befriended and turned an al Qaeda guy in Pakistan but I heard him speak Arabic and its lousy and he would stand out as a foreigner a mile away.
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@Vandalismo@lemmy.world 2026-04-13 20:53
Everything about the CIA and i will take it with a kilogram of salt.
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@mistermodal@lemmy.ml 2026-04-10 19:03
He sucks. First of all nobody is "ex-CIA" and antiimperialist media needs to get that through their heads. He lied about being present at the torture of Abu Zubaydah. He was working at places that "tortured some folks", just not, you know, his main claim to fame. A good rubric to apply to whistleblowers is do they condemn the organization, disavow its personnel, cut all ties with it, and ultimately is their critique structural, merely careerist, or is it in fact a controlled self-critique by the org. Johncharlie Kirkiakou is kind of a codifying example of the shitty whistleblower, he is always moaning about how the CIA had never tortured anyone before the Bush administration and it was a Great Shame on the good Amerikan people etc, blow it out your ass "John"!!! They wrote manuals on that shit in the 50s. Fuck that guy read about the Office of Strategic Services, its postwar collaboration with Nazis, and the inextricable links between the CIA (emphasis on central), other first world intelligence agencies, fascist orgs, and private banking.
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@Alaskaball@hexbear.net 2026-04-10 19:39
If he's not on the run from the CIA, he's still CIA
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@RoddyStiggs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-04-11 04:18
He's got a good barber
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@Diva@lemmy.ml 2026-04-11 04:10
Don't trust him at all, absolutely still CIA.
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@Gates9@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-11 03:57
Nobody leaves the Company
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@FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 2026-04-10 23:52
I have never heard of him. In general, I don't find YouTube a reliable source for anything controversial. I think the CIA falls under that umbrella. So I would be very skeptical.
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@treadful@lemmy.zip 2026-04-10 21:27
*47 cruise missiles*
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@BilboBargains@lemmy.world 2026-04-11 00:17
They put him in prison for being a whistleblower so he at least has some scruples.
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@jerebear39@slrpnk.net 2026-04-24 07:02
He’s a great storyteller, I love listening to his podcasts and interviews. I’m not gonna comment on how credible he is or isn’t, I feel we should all exercise critical thinking when listening to anyone and make a judgment on the merits of what someone is saying than blindly believing everything someone says is true.