VIDEO: Freed CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou Says “I Would Do It All Again” to Expose Torture

John Kiriakou, a retired CIA agent who has just been released from prison after blowing the whistle on the George W. Bush administration’s torture program, says he was jailed because of the torture debate, and he’d go through it all again to expose torture.

Democracy Now
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Former CIA officer John C. Kiriakou was indicted Thursday for allegedly leaking classified secrets to journalists concerning interrogation techniques and covert missions. (Photo: Troy Page / t r u t h o u t)

In a broadcast exclusive interview, we spend the hour with John Kiriakou, a retired CIA agent who has just been released from prison after blowing the whistle on the George W. Bush administration’s torture program. In 2007, Kiriakou became the first CIA official to publicly confirm and detail the agency’s use of waterboarding. In January 2013, he

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Whistleblowing was the buzzword of 2013 and 2014. Snowden and Assange are the big names splashed around headlines, but they’re not the only ones going to great lengths to preserve the Fourth Estate and, in doing so, saving democracy.

Frederick Reese
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James Risen James Risen, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter with the New York Times, addresses a luncheon at the Associated Press Media Editors conference in Chicago. The Justice Department has ruled out forcing Risen to divulge his source in the upcoming trial of a former CIA officer accused of leaking classified information, a person familiar with

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CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou Denied Freedom Of Speech

The limits put on John Kiriakou’s freedom of speech is telling of how the United States treats its political prisoners.

Frederick Reese
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Former CIA officer John Kiriakou, right, listens as his attorney Robert Trout speaks with reporters outside of the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., Oct. 23, 2012, after Kiriakou pleading guilty, in a plea deal, to leaking the names of covert operatives to journalists. (AP/Cliff Owen)

Since his incarceration at the Federal Correctional Institution, Loretto, CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou has been publishing his “Letters from Loretto” with FireDogLake -- a progressive-leaning political collective blog -- to express his frustrations about his prison sentence, the state of civil liberties in the United States and concerns about

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