John Kiriakou is a former CIA counter-terrorism officer and the first U.S. official to confirm the agency's torture of detainees. Punished for being a whistleblower, he served nearly 2 years in a federal prison.
This is a torture program
They can use whatever euphemism they want but this is a torture program
I was the only person who went to prison
We killed people with that technique
The Justice Department never said we could kill people
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So you were saying you put replace Mike Baker yeah Mike's a great guy he was a good officer
he was uh he doesn't really talk about his work a lot maybe it's because a lot of years have passed
But he was the real deal I replaced him in Athens and he had done a lot of preliminary legwork in Athens
Athens was a tough place at the time
The American government spent more money on security in Athens than they spent anywhere else in the world including Beirut
Why there it was a combination of two things there were two indigenous Greek groups that were exceedingly dangerous
One was called Revolutionary Organization 17 November they had killed the CIA station chief two US defense attache's
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