Returning guest John Kiriakou is a former CIA Counterterrorism Officer and former Senior Investigator on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He blew the whistle on the CIA torture programme (waterboarding). John comments on the first day of the extradition trial of Julian Assange in London.
Read Moredeel één van een 5½ uur durend oudjaarsavond huiskamer interview van Rico Brouwer met 20 gasten. Met NSA en CIA klokkenluiders, over theater gemaakt van een FBI verhoor en theater gemaakt in het Europees Parlement.
Read MoreJohn Kiriakou worked for the CIA in Iraq, on counter-terrorism and on fighting al Qaida. In 2002 he was asked to be trained in enhanced interrogation techniques. He declined and in 2007 blew the whistle on what we now know to be a US torture program, which eventually landed him in jail. He now lives with his family in Washington DC, talks about CIA operations and describes how US citizens have taken over the Venezuelan embassy there, protecting it from the US government.
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