They screwed him. I wish him so much success. I've been a fan of his since the government started "torturing" him. Whistleblowers are our friends not traitors.
Rights exist as propaganda to create the illusion of accountability and stagnate revolutionary rhetoric. If a government violates rights on an institutional level, it can either disband or bribe taxpayers with their own money to buy their silence.
Except speeders are constantly pursued and frequently fined, imprisoned, or executed on-site. State-sanctioned torturers only at risk if they have loose lips or acquire a conscience.
The fact that he 'loved' that job makes me dubious about this man. He was not doing good work, as he seems to think, and he ought to be apologising instead of going on about his great career. He should be ashamed, mourn. He continues to be silent about too many things he did, knows and has seen.
Sht the tooth fairy used to come through pretty regularly. I dont remember the last time anyone in congress did a single thing of use to anyone but themselves and their puppet masters.
It’s all about writing officials at the local level, participating and creating dialogue at city council meetings, and of course VOTE VOTE VOTE! Hahahahaaaaaaa 😄
I have the pleasure on meeting Mr. Kiriakou at the Barnes and Nobles bookstore in Lynnwood, WA in 2017. I took a picture with him and he signed my copy of his book The Convenient Terrorist. A decent gentleman.
How can you say that? He's trained to lie and most likely if he is still alive like this, he really isn't a real whistleblower. You know how many crimes this guy committed in his time with CIA? This dude deserves no praise
If you think you can do as he sugests you are naive. They have within a blink of an eye. Start covering youre smartphone tablet etc. CAMERA. He's probably a honeypot.
I am proud and honored to call @john Kiriakou my friend. Our values and our promise to keep working diligently to make this a more perfect union is what makes America great.
This is great, but he's oversimplifying for sake of not going down rabbitholes and getting in trouble all over again. He mentioned 'enhanced interrogation' (separate from waterboarding), which has dozens of components, then drops that like a hot potato. Enhanced interrogation escaped legal scrutiny and definition. It's still going on. It's not just torture, it's _worse_ than torture, and scars for life. I commend Kirikou for his courage, but he didn't go far enough (perhaps because he's human and has a family). U.S. detention camps and military prisons are still open - and they are not treating people humanely in the slightest. The measures still being used are: sleep deprivation, empty and real verbal threats, isolation, sensory deprivation, cold, some forced position torture, disorientation about cause of pain (prisoner is told he is causing his own pain), playing with randomness and time (so that it feels that the torture is infinite and timeless) and with indefinite detention (you are there forever, and this psychologically destroys the prisoner so that most of them stop eating). All these things are worse than a few waterboarding sessions, because the torture never ends, and mentally scars both perpetrators and victims for life. So, in fact, very little has been fixed, and many western states are morally cowardly and retrograde, the consequences of which are destroying the society from within.
You should search UA-cam for videos of him being interviewed by VICE where he talked about some of those interrogation techniques you are talking about. It’s definitely an eye opening for me.
@ 8.30 "Torture is illegal in this country" So now the SAME people torture in International waters or somewhere outside the US. Problem solved. Business as usual.
@@weareallbornmad410It's literally been proven, with photos and plenty of verified articles from numerous sources, that this is 100% what CIA and their facilitators did. Actions like these dissuade people to the American way. It breeds terrorism. It breeds violence. It should not happen. The Geneva Conventions and following them is what helped us win in the first Iraq War ... not following them afterward is what further lead to us losing the next round of that war.
@@leemiddleton6196Nah. Treason is breaking the law and pretending that your criminal actions are for some bold, patriotic purpose. Treason is those who don't stand up for what's wrong. It's anti-American.
I'm so glad so many people are giving Joh a platform to tell his story. He sacrificed not just his career, but his freedom, pension and so much more. He deserves a complete pardon.
Counter terrorism is where the CIA fights against itself basically and the groups they have previously armed trained and used till they were done with them.
The moment he said" the FBI couldnt find anything, i didnt commit a crime", i thought: yeah, but your fellow C.I.A agents will not be so forgiving...you called them out as torturerers, he was the only one of 14 who said no. The program went on, and he blows the whistle, afcourse they gonna see him as a traitor in their eyes. Though he has the ethical element of it on his side, and by making this known, he created an invisible barrier for the U.S. to slide even further down, because what did we used to say again in the western world ? We would never resort to torture ever again ? Well we did, and we promosed we would never sink so low again. Nonetheless they (the admin) signed it. In other words we did a step back as humanity
Sir, you are a real American hero. They should be ashamed themselves for what they did to you. And especially those people that they water boarded and tortured.
A true courageous man you are . We don't confirm to the societies norm but we stand for morals and trutg. We're not rebel by choice. We're the light bringer
If the future offers us a new chances to prove our humanity we should seriously overthink our own ability to accept when we have to admid that there are times to loose. so there shall be times to win again. The treatment you had to accept innocently must have been the challange of your live. I want to give you all my best wishes to have a future which offers opportunities which suits your ideals you were standing for.
The first thing a company man learns is how to lie convincingly if you think for a moment torture has gone away because of a legality issue your sadly mistaken, while it does not always garner actionable intelligence it does wonders for destroying morale of the enemy regardless of who is doing the torturing
its shameful that a video with some kid smashing a toy figure will get 7million views but this HARD CORE thruth about what is happening here only gets `15k views. Raise your kids better. Your raising a bunch of zombies that totally ignore the worlds problems and watch cat vidoes all day.
The rationale for allowing Waterboarding according to the CIA in 2002 was : 9/11 was a terrorist aggression on U.S. soil that called for extreme measures ( i.e. waterboarding ) in order to gather the necessary intelligence to fight the war on terrorism more effectively thus preventing future terrorist attacks and loss of life .
I went to school with a guy with the same name in marrickville frontcourt. He looks like him he was card of his own shadow I hope it's not him but his Greek cushion was a good soccer player so maybe he moved to Newcastle never know
John, can't you sue the feds and get the $$$ about the time your grand children head off to college somewhere outside of the Northeast where they can enjoy the experience at the gov't expense?
Why they do it to us. Why we can't do the same thing, think it's only right to torture them it's not right, it's mainly war anything everything is allowed in sorry it's not right are men died like that overseas
Props to Ted for giving this hero a platform.
They screwed him. I wish him so much success. I've been a fan of his since the government started "torturing" him. Whistleblowers are our friends not traitors.
@@SHARON.I standing ovation 👏
This man is a true patriot. We owe him and those like him a lot. 🇺🇸
Torture finally made illegal is the same as speeding is illegal.
It’s illegal but you know it’s still going to go on.
Rights exist as propaganda to create the illusion of accountability and stagnate revolutionary rhetoric. If a government violates rights on an institutional level, it can either disband or bribe taxpayers with their own money to buy their silence.
Dennis Teti right! I ran a red light the other night but I didn’t get caught so therefore I didn’t do anything illegal.
Except speeders are constantly pursued and frequently fined, imprisoned, or executed on-site.
State-sanctioned torturers only at risk if they have loose lips or acquire a conscience.
@@donwheeler1208 if no one sees it, did it even happen? I think you may even have imagined it yourself.
TPB are pretty selective about which laws they enforce & which violators of said laws they'll prosecute.
The “Patriot Act” proves an old adage that my Constitutional Law professor taught us, “Bad times equal bad laws.”
take back our country, elect all new people into congress
I think CIA made a big mistake of recruiting John. In this kind of services you cannot recruit people with good heart and he is a great human being.
Amen, so damn true!!!!
Cia is full of assholes.
@@bigfellaoo7 Not all are bad guys, but the good ones eventually get out.
@@elizabethphillips1382 Je pimped kids and they disappeared...is that what he said ?
@@vickyhioniskolaiti, Do your own research, then please enlighten us.
Thank you John!
How in God's name is this man still alive? Amazing stuff!
right?
Because we aren't Russia
@@cole5411 Gary Webb do not agree with you
When we said truth god protect
Yes. He's clearly recruiting youths to join the CIA. Did you not watch the video?
Few of us have John Kiriakou's integrity when your're responsible for your family and dependent on a job you love.
The fact that he 'loved' that job makes me dubious about this man. He was not doing good work, as he seems to think, and he ought to be apologising instead of going on about his great career. He should be ashamed, mourn. He continues to be silent about too many things he did, knows and has seen.
To write your congressman is like writing the tooth fairy.
Sht the tooth fairy used to come through pretty regularly. I dont remember the last time anyone in congress did a single thing of use to anyone but themselves and their puppet masters.
Not for long.
Voting the bums out has proved meaningless. It only keeps us chained to a fairytail system.
It’s all about writing officials at the local level, participating and creating dialogue at city council meetings, and of course VOTE VOTE VOTE!
Hahahahaaaaaaa 😄
I have the pleasure on meeting Mr. Kiriakou at the Barnes and Nobles bookstore in Lynnwood, WA in 2017. I took a picture with him and he signed my copy of his book The Convenient Terrorist. A decent gentleman.
I'm a huge fan, so amazing you got to meet him!!! I have so much love and respect for his work.
This man is a hero
Always have loved how he speaks. And he's true to his story. I hope he gets pardoned.
One of the best storytellers you'll ever listen to.
this guy is a legend
How can you say that? He's trained to lie and most likely if he is still alive like this, he really isn't a real whistleblower. You know how many crimes this guy committed in his time with CIA? This dude deserves no praise
@@Me-xd7bd You are right. Also this could be to distract from real problems.
If you think you can do as he sugests you are naive. They have within a blink of an eye. Start covering youre smartphone tablet etc. CAMERA. He's probably a honeypot.
God bless John Kiriakou.
Thank you John
Long live humanity
Long live America
Long live India
Fianlly hes on Ted !
We need to share this video and I’m doing it as a moral obligation! This corrupt government must be stopped. Thank you Mr. Kiriacou 👏👏👏
Definitely a lot happens behind our backs😨
I hope he lives a long happy life.
I am proud and honored to call @john Kiriakou my friend. Our values and our promise to keep working diligently to make this a more perfect union is what makes America great.
Needs way more views....
👍 Let’s share it 👍
Thank you!
This is great, but he's oversimplifying for sake of not going down rabbitholes and getting in trouble all over again. He mentioned 'enhanced interrogation' (separate from waterboarding), which has dozens of components, then drops that like a hot potato. Enhanced interrogation escaped legal scrutiny and definition. It's still going on. It's not just torture, it's _worse_ than torture, and scars for life. I commend Kirikou for his courage, but he didn't go far enough (perhaps because he's human and has a family). U.S. detention camps and military prisons are still open - and they are not treating people humanely in the slightest. The measures still being used are: sleep deprivation, empty and real verbal threats, isolation, sensory deprivation, cold, some forced position torture, disorientation about cause of pain (prisoner is told he is causing his own pain), playing with randomness and time (so that it feels that the torture is infinite and timeless) and with indefinite detention (you are there forever, and this psychologically destroys the prisoner so that most of them stop eating). All these things are worse than a few waterboarding sessions, because the torture never ends, and mentally scars both perpetrators and victims for life. So, in fact, very little has been fixed, and many western states are morally cowardly and retrograde, the consequences of which are destroying the society from within.
Thank you for telling us. Can you give us some additional resources to learn about the whole situation?
USA possessed and...Repossessed!
You should search UA-cam for videos of him being interviewed by VICE where he talked about some of those interrogation techniques you are talking about. It’s definitely an eye opening for me.
Read his book!
@ 8.30 "Torture is illegal in this country" So now the SAME people torture in International waters or somewhere outside the US. Problem solved. Business as usual.
That's probably true. However, are there any sources that you can point me to? Or are we just speculating?
Thats why the cia has toture planes
@@weareallbornmad410 have you ever seen the images of “torture flights”, this is why it is said that no torture has occurred on us “soil”
@@weareallbornmad410It's literally been proven, with photos and plenty of verified articles from numerous sources, that this is 100% what CIA and their facilitators did.
Actions like these dissuade people to the American way. It breeds terrorism. It breeds violence. It should not happen. The Geneva Conventions and following them is what helped us win in the first Iraq War ... not following them afterward is what further lead to us losing the next round of that war.
I admire whistleblowers who are trying to educate the public on what is the truth about the U.S. government and not justify their actions.
Treason
@@leemiddleton6196Nah. Treason is breaking the law and pretending that your criminal actions are for some bold, patriotic purpose.
Treason is those who don't stand up for what's wrong. It's anti-American.
This man is an actual hero. I appreciate his sacrifice.
I'm so glad so many people are giving Joh a platform to tell his story. He sacrificed not just his career, but his freedom, pension and so much more. He deserves a complete pardon.
Some people really watch this and actually believe that torture isn't practiced now in the US.
Thank you John for exposing CIA's war crimes....
No one is held accountable anymore....
great great story teller...with listening him, do not need any more chit chat with friends...
great talk
This guy is literally in prison right now (Jan. 18, 2021) because he exposed war crimes & crimes against humanity.
How ironic
Where are you getting your information? He was in prison from February 2013 to February 2015. This info is readily available.
Morality is for citizens not for government.
Citizens lower than Gov and Mil 100%%%%
Respect to John Kiriakou.
Counter terrorism is where the CIA fights against itself basically and the groups they have previously armed trained and used till they were done with them.
Hello Afghanistan
The moment he said" the FBI couldnt find anything, i didnt commit a crime", i thought: yeah, but your fellow C.I.A agents will not be so forgiving...you called them out as torturerers, he was the only one of 14 who said no. The program went on, and he blows the whistle, afcourse they gonna see him as a traitor in their eyes. Though he has the ethical element of it on his side, and by making this known, he created an invisible barrier for the U.S. to slide even further down, because what did we used to say again in the western world ? We would never resort to torture ever again ? Well we did, and we promosed we would never sink so low again. Nonetheless they (the admin) signed it. In other words we did a step back as humanity
This guy should know Kevin Shipp.
I love your heroic stance on life
We Sould give them a hippy stance
"Torture is finally illegal in this country...". Naive. Torture continues.
And truth is not told. Nearly all we see and hear is deception or distraction.
@@macdermesser "Beware lest you be deceived". This is the age of deception
More than you know. Look into targeted individuals.
Joseph, I know torture is legal in the U.S.A. - Abortion is legal!
Not only torture, but also "suicides"...
Sir, you are a real American hero. They should be ashamed themselves for what they did to you. And especially those people that they water boarded and tortured.
Covert torture is being perpetrated today. Look into targeted individuals and electronic torture and harrassment.
Question is why
@@stephanielove4469 control
RIGHT IS MIGHTY MIGHT without REMORSE.
The effect of a reaction to an acceptance is greatly related to ones 'position' in the 'concerned' issue.
Great speaker!
A true courageous man you are . We don't confirm to the societies norm but we stand for morals and trutg. We're not rebel by choice. We're the light bringer
He probably is the nicest 1 to come out of the CIA!
I've been using the same line against these people
You have to cooperate with me!
He still alive? WOW
Mr. Kiriakou you were employed in this huge Philanthropic Organization. Now, it is a pity to leave this Philanthropic center.
What can we do?
Nothing.
If the future offers us a new chances to prove our humanity we should seriously overthink our own ability to accept when we have to admid that there are times to loose. so there shall be times to win again. The treatment you had to accept innocently must have been the challange of your live. I want to give you all my best wishes to have a future which offers opportunities which suits your ideals you were standing for.
You our national Hero. Who was the director of FBI that time name the criminal agent.
HERO
The first thing a company man learns is how to lie convincingly if you think for a moment torture has gone away because of a legality issue your sadly mistaken, while it does not always garner actionable intelligence it does wonders for destroying morale of the enemy regardless of who is doing the torturing
*Joe, I know torture is legal in the U.S.A. - Abortion is legal!*
Thank You John Kiriakou, you are Mighty ⚡🌊🔥 Happy Fathers Day. Release Him Immediately!
For a channel with 25M subscribers... how does this have only 50k views? Interesting...
Lately Kiriakou has been doing damage control for Assad and Putin on Sputnik
The good guys get out . It's been that for every industry or trade .
30 months in prison for telling the truth, can you think of a worse country to live in??????!!!!!!
It would of be nice if you explained the torture methods. You only mentioned water boarding.
Torture continues
join the CIA? 😂😂😂
they locked you up and tried to kill you wtf
John you are a hero...in morals and everything else
Dear Mr. Kiriakos, in order to solve the "mystery" of 17 November Organisation please search in your former company.
I'm here from JRE. is this the guy???
its shameful that a video with some kid smashing a toy figure will get 7million views but this HARD CORE thruth about what is happening here only gets `15k views. Raise your kids better. Your raising a bunch of zombies that totally ignore the worlds problems and watch cat vidoes all day.
I watch both.
Wat a guy!
here is the backstory, he now is the co-host of a radio show with Lee Stranahan on radio Sputnik
I watched his Ted Talk and was impressed, but a quick google search shows him to be working for Russian propaganda now. Not good...
Join the cia. That’s the answer? Close down the cia is the answer.
Exactly! The real rulers who run the CIA will never allow it to be changed for the better.
5:24 People actually laughed at this sad
Loud n clear show, radio, Russian sputnik
Great
1 outta 14 said no. Maybe you were the wrong one then ?
US has gone down a dark road.
I'd still like to know why you guys brought down Salvador Allende and helped Pinochet
love and respect from Pakistan
When did Comedy Central start hosting ted talks?
“I will not speak to you in god language’ respect.
The rationale for allowing Waterboarding according to the CIA in 2002 was : 9/11 was a terrorist aggression on U.S. soil that called for extreme measures ( i.e. waterboarding ) in order to gather the necessary intelligence to fight the war on terrorism more effectively thus preventing future terrorist attacks and loss of life .
i will not speak to you in god's language: you are the enemy
If he's doing TED talks 🤔🤔🤔
I went to school with a guy with the same name in marrickville frontcourt. He looks like him he was card of his own shadow I hope it's not him but his Greek cushion was a good soccer player so maybe he moved to Newcastle never know
It’s a matter of values…ends or means…the CIA likes ends first people
Whistleblowers are good people working as propaganda tools not so much
All you had to do was ask Israel and the US government what happened 9/11.
Is he from Sydney, Australia jhon if you are I've been to school with some your relative
👏🏼👏🏿👏🏾👏🏽
Alberta's!!! Xxxxxxxxxxx guessed ahhhhhh look a like exactly .
Le vote, l'entrisme : sûrement un excellent officier traitant, mais un "croyant démocratique" risible. Son parcours contredit ses propos
When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals... Snowden
serious and well composed man, interesting story full of holes though, so many blind spots it is difficult to say where truth stops and politics begin
Sony like flying or overseas I just not trust
John, can't you sue the feds and get the $$$ about the time your grand children head off to college somewhere outside of the Northeast where they can enjoy the experience at the gov't expense?
this guy deserves respect! should george bush be put in jail for lying? 😀 yes it gets hot when you watch these videos!
did you say 'vote'..?
Newsflash------------- A Psychopath doesn't develop a conscience.
What do you mean?
💐💐💐🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Asian girl! ??? Together ! Imposter syndrome sound familiar. 2019 2021
A laugh in the last seconds, as they show something SO FEARSOME! Yet, it is the only thing to fear.
Why they do it to us.
Why we can't do the same thing, think it's only right to torture them it's not right, it's mainly war anything everything is allowed in sorry it's not right are men died like that overseas