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John Kiriakou is a former high-ranking CIA counter-terrorism officer and the first U.S. official to confirm CIA torture of detainees. Punished for being a whistleblower, he served nearly 2 years in a federal prison. John also exposed the CIA’s involvement in the secret rendition to torture in Syria of Canadian citizen Maher Arar.
What does one learn from being imprisoned for doing something right? To never speak out again? Or that truth-telling is necessary.
How do you keep quiet when the country you love knowingly and willingly violates the very basis of its foundation beliefs and laws? And when you speak out, does the system support you? Or punish you for revealing the ugliness?

Whistleblowers Speak Out for Truth
There have been many whistleblowers accused of harming the United States by leaking information to our enemies that would cause damage to our government. In reality, that is simply not the case in almost all circumstances. Instead, using this false premise, what has happened is the deliberate attempt to ruin the lives of any whistleblower who speaks up as a way of discouraging those who see wrongdoing and want it stopped.
Silenced, a film about three whistleblowers that continue to work for you, features John Kiriakou, Thomas Drake and Jesselyn Radack. You can. Watch the Trailer here.
We are firm believers that if the citizens of this great country are told the truth in order to hold the government accountable for its actions, our country will treat its citizens and captured enemies in the humane way we have publicly declared to be the law of the land.
Edward Snowden made it painfully obvious that our government has not only lied to us about their intrusions on our rights to privacy but has thrown the light of truth on our government’s blatant disregard for our Constitutional rights to privacy. The Fourth Amendment reads: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probably cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” And we should be asking: How’s that working for us? We must force change.
The legal battle and eventual incarceration that John Kiriakou experienced almost ruined him and his family. After being released in February 2015, he spent the next three months under house arrest. He was expected to get a job but was restricted both in travel and access to jobs for which he is highly qualified. After all, what does a former spy do outside of Washington DC?
As a whistleblower who suffered at the hands of the Justice Department working on behalf of the CIA to shut him up and shut him down, when John was released from prison he vowed to NEVER be silent on the wrongdoings of his country and its agencies.
John Kiriakou’s ability to bring awareness to the American pubic regarding the too many and important government wrongdoings and the imbalances experienced by those not living in the shining tower of wealth and influence requires that he makes a living. It is his intention to be able to do so after six months when he is more free to move about the country. However at this time, his travel is quite confined by his parole restrictions and the required approvals. Until he is able to get beyond those restrictions, his ability to earn a living is also restricted.
John, eager to speak for groups and activist organizations as well as colleges and universities where our future decision-makers can have another view of the world through John’s eyes, is now engaged in am important series of speaking engagements in Europe.
John Kiriakou’s Goals and Projects
Ion the years since being released from prison, Joh has worked to recover from the retaliatory campaign by the Justice Department to destroy him and move forward with his plans to bring awareness to and educate Americans through seminars, Op-Ed articles, broadcasting, speeches, books and reaching out in whatever way he can. The topics of interest to him include:
- Whistleblower rights
- Prison Reform
- Transparency in Government
- Changing the practice of torture
- Protecting Privacy and Your Privacy Rights
He has had broadcast opportunities, regular podcasts, interviews on public widely known television and video shows as well as becoming a popular Substack author. His efforts to educate, inform and expand awareness have been successful through his online presence to promote his good and valuable works.
Never forget…
We will never be truly free nor able to be proud of our great country again if we don’t stop the wrongdoing and misconduct by those in the highest positions in the land.
Too many are directly suffering from the axiom: “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” And too many suffer indirectly as the economy, the government, and our communities are irreparably damaged by those who simply do not care or care for their own gains more than for the American Way.
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