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

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

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

- John Kiriakou

It's not up to Google, it's not up to Apple to turn over our personal communications in order to save the country. It's up to the CIA and it's up to …

- 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

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

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

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