Even if torture works, it cannot be tolerated -- not in one case or a thousand or a million. If their efficacy becomes the measure of abhorrent acts,…

- John Kiriakou

I think the president, very simply, has never read a copy of the Constitution. I think that that's true. He's just never bothered to read the Constit…

- John Kiriakou

I can remember only a small handful of instances in which I talked about politics with my parents. I remember my parents telling me that Daniel Ellsb…

- John Kiriakou

The big issue is this incremental whittling away of our constitutional rights, our most important constitutional rights, including freedom of speech.…

- John Kiriakou

The CIA has transformed from an organization created to recruit spies to steal secrets, into a paramilitary organization, a paramilitary force. It's …

- John Kiriakou

It's much less romantic in that you have to go to www.cia.gov and click "Apply Now." For me it was much more clandestine.

- John Kiriakou

Immediately after the September 11th attacks, I volunteered to go to Afghanistan in any capacity that the CIA wanted me. Four months passed before I …

- John Kiriakou

You can't just blurt the information out to the Russian foreign minister and the Russian ambassador. What happens is, the information goes back to th…

- John Kiriakou

If the CIA is going to disrupt future terrorist attacks, it needs to recruit spies to infiltrate those groups in order to disrupt the terrorist attac…

- John Kiriakou