USA under presidency of a know-nothing, neo-fascist, racist, sexist, mobbed-up narcissist!!

[Peter Lemkin]

THE CIA VS. DONALD TRUMP

CIA Whistleblower: Agency has Neither Oversight nor Conscience

John Kiriakou, author of Doing Time Like a Spy. Photo credit: Rare Bird Books, A Vireo Book and Slowking4 / Wikimedia (CC BY-NC 3.0)
John Kiriakou spent 15 years working his way up the chain of command at the CIA. He speaks multiple languages, including Greek and Arabic, and was an analyst, case officer and, after 9/11, the director of counter-terrorism in Pakistan. He left the CIA in 2004.
Several years later, in an interview with ABC News, he was the first to fully expose the CIA's complicity in torture, such as waterboarding and other forms of "enhanced interrogation."
Kiriakou was ultimately charged with disclosing classified information to journalists, and served 23 months in federal prison.
In this week's WhoWhatWhy interview, Kiriakou talks about a CIA that has grown ever larger following 9/11. Unchecked by oversight or budgetary constraints, it has, in his experience, metastasized from an analytical organization to a global paramilitary force with its own policy agenda.
He thinks that President Donald Trump makes a big mistake in underestimating the power and reach of the agency. He believes it was responsible for getting rid of Trump's National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, and that there is more to come about the so-called "Trump dossier" of incriminating material compiled by the Russians.
John Kiriakou is the author of the upcoming Doing Time Like A Spy: How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison (Rare Bird Books, May 16, 2017); The Convenient Terrorist: Abu Zubaydah and the Weird Wonderland of America's Secret Wars (with Joseph Hickman) (Hot Books, April 25, 2017); and The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA's War on Terror (with Michael Ruby) (Skyhorse Publishing, February 27, 2010).

Radio player with Kiriakou interview here: http://whowhatwhy.org/2017/03/10/cia-vs-donald-trump/