#India #Pak #Ex-CIA #JohnKiriakou #MastIndia #MastodonIndians #India @mastodonindians
https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/india-pakistan-war-fears-2002-cia-reveals-parliament-attack-terror-role-glbs-2808112-2025-10-25?utm_source=rss

Ex-CIA officer John Kiriakou recalls fearing war between India and Pakistan after the 2001 Parliament attack. He also reveals how Saudi intervention protected nuclear scientist AQ Khan and shares insights on Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal and US-Pakistan relations. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/cia-officer-john-kiriakou-reveals-india-pakistan-war-fears-following-parliament-attack-odf35azv?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #JohnKiriakou #CIA #IndiaPakistanConflict #OperationParakram #AQKhan

JOHN KIRIAKOU: Leaving the Democrats for Good
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/05/john-kiriakou-leaving-the-democrats-for-good/
The author’s break with the Democrats began when Obama’s administration sought revenge on him for blowing the whistle on C.I.A. torture. Now he has many more reasons. By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium News In the movie Network, newsman Howard…
#Politics #Column #Commentary #ForeignPolicy #HumanRights #U.s. #U.s.JusticeDept. #Campaign2016 #GeorgeMcgovern #JohnKiriakou #Superdelegates #TheDemocraticParty

Ex-Elite UK Troops Recount War Crimes in Iraq & Afghanistan
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/05/14/ex-elite-uk-troops-recount-iraq-afghanistan-war-crimes/
Those who exposed illegalities — including Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, John Kiriakou & David McBride — were almost always the only ones punished for the crimes they exposed. By Brett Wilkins Common Dreams Dozens of former United Kingdom Special…
#Politics #Afghanistan #Commentary #Iraq #Libya #Pakistan #Terrorism #U.s. #WarCrimes #Yemen #BbcPanorama #BrettWilkins #ChelseaManning #EdwardSnowden #GlobalWarOnTerror #InternationalCriminalCourt(icc) #JohnKiriakou #PrimeMinisterDavidCameron #SpecialAirService(sas) #U.k.SpecialForces(uksf) #Whistleblowers

JOHN KIRIAKOU: ‘Assassination Culture’
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/04/22/john-kiriakou-assassination-culture/
The only way to change those in government, at least in our present construct, is at the ballot box. But hyper-partisanship has the country at each other’s throats with assassination in the air. By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium News…
#Politics #Column #Commentary #GunViolence #U.s. #Assassination #Gov.JoshShapiro #JohnKiriakou #NewtGingrich #Partisanship #PresidentDonaldTrump

John Kiriakou: US Prisons Under Trump’s Watch
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/04/17/john-kiriakou-us-prisons-under-trumps-watch/
Here’s a look at the blighted prison system that Donald Trump took over from Biden, along with some new scandals that have already occurred since Trump’s inauguration. By John Kiriakou Substack I wrote just before the 2024 presidential election that…
#Politics #Commentary #HumanRights #Legal #Prisons #TrumpAdministration #U.s. #BureauOfPrisons(bop) #CollettePeters #Corecivic #EddieHumes #JohnKiriakou #MarktaviousTwilley #MetropolitanDetentionCenter(mdc) #RikersIsland #RobertL.Brooks #Sr. #TrousdaleTurnerCorrectional

JOHN KIRIAKOU: Greek Leftists for Trump
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/21/john-kiriakou-greek-leftists-for-trump/
Trying to stop the war in Ukraine, spreading fear among conservative politicians and carrying out diplomacy with North Korea, as the U.S. president did in his first term, all earn points. By John Kiriakou Substack I’ve written before that, just…
#Politics #Column #Commentary #Europe #Gaza #Greece #Israel #NorthKorea #Palestine #Russia #TrumpAdministration #Turkey #U.s. #Eurosocialism #JohnKiriakou #PresidentDonaldTrump #WarInUkraine

RAY McGOVERN: Gabbard Defangs ex-Intel Officials
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/11/ray-mcgovern-gabbard-defangs-ex-intel-officials/
DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s action to strip the security clearances is a clear warning that her boss told her to shut down the deep-state cottage industry of former spies able and willing to interfere in U.S. elections. By Ray McGovern Special…
#Politics #Analysis #Commentary #Intelligence #Russia #Russiagate #U.s. #AaronMate #C.i.a. #F.b.i. #JohnBrennan #JohnKiriakou #KashPatel #Nsa #RayMcgovern #TulsiGabbard

JOHN KIRIAKOU: An Unpardonable Process
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/03/john-kiriakou-an-unpardonable-process/
It’s an insurmountable conflict of interest to have the U.S. pardon attorney reporting directly to the Justice Department’s person in charge of prosecutions. By John Kiriakou Loud & Clear w/John Kiriakou To the surprise of likely nobody who knows me,…
#Politics #BidenAdministration #CivilRights #Column #Commentary #Legal #Surveillance #TheBush43Administration #Torture #U.s.JusticeDept. #C.i.a. #C.i.a.Torture #CiaWhistleblower #GaryHart #IntelligenceIdentitiesProtectionActOf1982 #JohnKiriakou #PresidentDonaldTrump #U.s.PresidentJoeBiden #Whistleblowers

@EndIsraeliApartheid

#CIATortureProgram #Obama #GeorgeWBush #Torture

Thanks for introducing me to #JohnKiriakou.

I'd thought "we'd" #LookedForwardsNotBackwards" and no one had gone to jail.

But now I find it was even worse than that.

#TorturersSkated.

#Whistleblower jailed.

WATCH: For Once Trump Gets It Right
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/01/24/watch-for-once-trump-gets-it-right/
Robert Scheer discusses Trump’s executive order banning government censorship and a range of free-press matters with Consortium News’ editor in chief Joe Lauria. By Robert Scheer This is the political season to be thankful for small favors of optimism, and…
#Politics #Censorship #CivilRights #Commentary #JulianAssange #NorthKorea #PressFreedom #RobertParry #Russia #Russiagate #Secrecy #SocialMedia #Surveillance #TrumpAdministration #U.s.JusticeDept. #U.s.SupremeCourrt #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #Amazon #Apple #BenjaminNetanyahu #ChrisHedges #CiaWhistleblower #CraigMurray #Democrats #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #EdwardSnowden #ElonMusk #ExecutiveOrders #F.b.i. #Facebook #FirstAmendment #GlobalNews #Google #Hamas #HunterBidenLaptop #J.EdgarHoover #JeffBezos #JimmyCarter #JoeLauria #JohnKiriakou #KentStateMassacre #LarryFlint #MarkZuckerberg #MartinLutherKing #MattTaibbi #MichaelShellenberger #NinaJankowicz #OppositionResearch #PalestinianGenocide #Partisanship #PresidentDonaldTrump #Propornot #RichardMedhurst #RobertScheer #RollingStoneMagazine #SteveWitkoff #TheLosAngelesTimes #TheNewYorkPost #TheNewYorkTimes #TheWashingtonPost #Tiktok #TwitterFiles #U.k.TerrorismAct

JOHN KIRIAKOU: US System of Prison Injustice
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/01/06/john-kiriakou-us-system-of-prison-injustice/
As we bump up against the end of the Biden administration, here’s a look at this president’s final year in office and his criminal-justice legacy. By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium News I wrote in October that Joe Biden, in…
#Politics #BidenAdministration #CivilRights #Column #Commentary #Legal #Prisons #TrumpAdministration #U.s. #U.s.JusticeDept. #BureauOfPrisons(bop) #JohnKiriakou #NedMccormick #NicholasFeliciano #PresidentJoeBiden #RikersIsland #TheNewYorkCityDepartmentOfCorrections

#CODEPINK Demands #Biden Pardon the #Activists and #Whistleblowers

Dec. 18, 2024

"CODEPINK calls for the pardon of several political prisoners, activists, lawyers and other individuals who faced targeted prosecution or unjust imprisonment. President Biden has just over 30 days left in the Oval Office where he can exercise his pardon power. In recent weeks, he pardoned his own son, fraudsters, and a former judge who took millions in kickbacks to send children to prison under false charges. We demand President Biden issue pardons to whistleblowers, truth tellers, activists, and land-defenders such as:

#LeonardPeltier
#StevenDonziger
#AssataShakur
#MumiaAbu-Jamal
#JulianAssange
#EdwardSnowden
#JohnKiriakou
#JamilAlAmin
#KamauSadiki
#ShukriAbuBaker
#GhassanElashi

"CODEPINK believes that to build a more just and peaceful world, we have to protect the people and our planet. The United States has a long history of repression, unjust prosecution, and wrongful imprisonment of activists who strive to make the world a better place.

"Figures like Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, John Kiriakou and other whistleblowers who faced prosecution for telling the world the truth about the US military, CIA torture, or the US surveillance apparatus have done the people of the world a great service. Their bravery and great personal sacrifice shed a light on grave injustices that were being carried out in the name of the American people without their knowledge.

"Indigenous activists like Leonard Peltier who’s case was riddled with recanted statements from key witnesses and other due process issues, is serving two consecutive life sentences at the age of 80. He’s been in prison since 1976 and maintains his innocence.

"Steven Donziger, a lawyer that fought on behalf of the indigenous people of the Ecuadorian amazon against Chevron’s harm to their land, faced prosecution as a retaliation from the Chevron company. Activists defending our earth and our rights and individuals shedding light on injustice play a vital role in our mission to educate on war and imperialism. We send them our solidarity.

"We also recognize the prison system in the United States as a tool of the war economy that disproportionately prosecutes and locks-up poor people and people of color. As an organization, we teach that the war industry, prison industry, and all oppressive systems in the U.S. are interlinked.

"Free all political prisoners, end repression of peace and justice advocates!"

https://www.codepink.org/pardonpoliticalprisoners

#USPol #FreeAssange #FreeLeonardPeltier #FreeMumia #FreeStephenDonziger #ClimateActivists #PeaceAndJusticeActivists #AmericanIndianMovement #MOVE #ACAB #SilencingDissent

JOHN KIRIAKOU: Cellphone Seizures & the Courts
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/12/23/john-kiriakou-cell-phone-seizures-the-courts/
We cannot trust that federal agents will just be looking for child pornographers or international drug traffickers when they demand access to our electronics at the border. By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium News After years of conflicting decisions by…
#Politics #CivilRights #Column #Commentary #Constitution #Legal #Surveillance #U.s.SupremeCourrt #AbortionRights #CellPhones #Cellphones #DigitalRights #F.b.i. #JohnKiriakou #KillSwitch #MarcosMendez #Signal #Telegram #U.s.CustomsAndBorderProtection

JOHN KIRIAKOU: The FBI Deserves Kash Patel
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/12/20/john-kiriakou-the-fbi-deserves-kash-patel/
After all the bureau’s crimes, Americans need somebody who is willing to tear this organization down to its bare studs. By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium News On the surface of things, Kash Patel is the kind of person most…
#Politics #CivilRights #Column #Commentary #PoliceBrutality #Secrecy #Surveillance #U.s. #C.i.a.Torture #Cointelpro #F.b.i. #J.EdgarHoover #JohnKiriakou #KashPatel #RandyWeaver #RubyRidgeSiege #VictoriaLiuzzo

JOHN KIRIAKOU: The Pro-Trump Mood in Greece
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/11/19/john-kiriakou-the-pro-trump-mood-in-greece/
The Greeks don’t know anything about American domestic policy; nor do they care. But they do care about war and immigration. By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium News I spent the past two weeks on my ancestral island of Rhodes,…
#Politics #Column #Commentary #Cyprus #Election2024 #Greece #Immigration #Israel #Palestine #Turkey #U.s. #Ukraine #CommunistPartyOfGreece(kke) #JohnKiriakou #NewDemocracyParty(nd) #Refugees #Rhodes

JOHN KIRIAKOU: America’s Barbaric Death Penalty
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/11/18/john-kiriakou-americas-barbaric-death-penalty/
Three quarters of the rest of the countries in the world do not have the death penalty. They see it as barbaric and immoral, which it is. By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium News The Texas Supreme Court in October…
#Politics #Column #Commentary #HumanRights #Legal #U.s. #U.s.SupremeCourrt #Alabama #DeathPenalty #DeathPenaltyPolicyProject #EmmanuelLittlejohn #JohnKiriakou #MarcellusWilliams #Missouri #RalphLeroyMenzies #RobertRobertson #Texas

JOHN KIRIAKOU: Gabbard Could Help Change US Foreign Policy
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/11/15/john-kiriakou-gabbard-could-help-change-us-foreign-policy/
We need someone in the post willing to rein in the neocon intelligence and foreign policy establishments when they urge the president to double down on military action based on phony or incomplete intelligence. By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium…
#Politics #Analysis #China #Column #Commentary #Election2024 #ForeignPolicy #Intelligence #International #Russia #Syria #BasharAlAssad #C.i.a. #DonaldTrump #JohnKiriakou #JohnRatcliffe #MarcoRubio #MattGaetz #OfficeOfTheDirectorOfNationalIntelligence(dni) #TulsiGabbard #VladimirPutin

WATCH: CN Live! — ‘US Election: What’s Next?’
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/11/06/watch-cn-live-us-election-whats-next/
CN Live! discusses Donald Trump’s victory with Margaret Kimberley, John Kiriakou, Brian Becker, Gerald Celente, Niko House, Richard Wolff, Scott Ritter and Patrick Lawrence. 3:30pm EST today! With its All-Star cast, CN Live! will discuss from 3:30pm EST today the…
#Politics #AmericanEmpire #Analysis #Brics #Campaign2024 #CnLive! #Commentary #Israel #Palestine #Russia #Ukraine #BrianBecker #CathyVogan #DonaldTrump #ElizabethVos #GeraldCelente #JoeLauria #JohnKiriakou #MargaretKimberley #NikoHouse #PatrickLawrence #RichardWolff #ScottRitter

WATCH: Live Election Coverage
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/11/05/watch-live-election-coverage/
Trends Journal Editor Gerald Celente hosts a live roundtable on the U.S. election with CN columnist Scott Ritter, CN board member Garland Nixon and CN Editor Joe Lauria. Tuesday 7pm ET. Consortium News‘ CN Live! will host a panel discussion…
#Politics #Analysis #Commentary #Election2024 #2024UsElection #BrianBecker #CathyVogan #ElizabethVos #GeraldCelente #JoeLauria #JohnKiriakou #MargaretKimberley #PatrickLawrence #RichardWolff