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the free encyclopedia of the world as seen through John Kiriakou's eyes — drawn entirely from his publicly available interviews, podcasts, and short-form video appearances.
KiriPedia collects what John Kiriakou — the former CIA officer who exposed the agency's post-9/11 torture program and became the only official jailed in connection with it — has said, on the record, about the people, agencies, and events he witnessed. Every claim is tied to a timestamp in a specific recording: his account of waterboarding and enhanced interrogation, of Gina Haspel and the destroyed interrogation tapes, of the Espionage Act prosecutions of whistleblowers, and of decades of covert operations from Abu Zubaydah to Julian Assange. This is not a neutral encyclopedia — it is the world as John Kiriakou describes it, with every source cited.
613 articles (231 people, 37 organizations, 19 places, 15 programs, 43 procedures, 62 events), anchored to 9,304 cited timestamps across 256 source recordings totaling 291 hours of transcribed video and 502,259 words written.
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Did you know …
- … that John Kiriakou says new CIA hires were warned never to eat at a specific steakhouse near headquarters, because the KGB was believed to monitor it for CIA employees who forgot to remove their badges?
- ...that the prosecutorial principle 'pick the man, then find the crime' was formulated as a warning by Robert H. Jackson in 1940 — when he was U.S. Attorney General — about what a federal prosecutor must never do?
- … that the gunman who killed Richard Welch on December 23, 1975 first read him a death sentence — "You have been convicted of crimes against the Greek people and you have been sentenced to death" — before firing three rounds into his chest in front of his wife?
- … that during the 1990–91 occupation, Crown Prince Sheikh Saad al-Abdullah ran the Kuwaiti government-in-exile from Taif at twenty hours a day — per John Kiriakou, "the best leader Kuwait had for that situation"?
- … that NSA whistleblower Tom Drake tried to use NSA's internal whistleblower process to flag Mike Hayden's post-9/11 mass-surveillance program — and that he and his co-whistleblower Bill Binney (who later lost both his legs to a flesh-eating bacteria caught from being arrested in the shower) were arrested instead of having their concerns addressed?
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