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

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

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

- 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 had never really given any thought to working for the CIA, but graduation was upon me; I was getting married just a week or two after graduation; I…

- John Kiriakou

I've never heard a White House staff say that the president was too stupid or too ill-informed to have broken the law. And that's really what it come…

- John Kiriakou

The truth of the matter is, we can certainly fight against terrorism and fight terrorist groups around the world without having to give up our own ci…

- 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