CIA Whistleblower: Who Actually Runs The US Government? - John Kiriakou - #1160 from Modern Wisdom

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CIA Whistleblower: Who Actually Runs The US Government? - John Kiriakou - #1160

2 hour 36 minutes Posted Oct 8, 2026 at 5:00 am.

) Why Should We Believe an Ex-CIA Agent?

) Will John Ever Receive a Presidential Pardon?

) Who Really Controls America?

) Inside the CIA’s Levels of Security

) The CIA’s Most Classified Operations

) Does the CIA Classify Embarrassing Information?

) Could Big Tech Become More Powerful Than the CIA?

) Is the CIA Spying on American Citizens?

) Why We Should Be Worried About China

) How Foreign Spies Infiltrate the US Government

) What Will CIA Whistleblowers Be Leaking in 10 Years?

) Is Mass Surveillance the Price of Safety?

) Is Brainwashing Real?

) The Chicken Farmer Who Brought Down Hitler

) Inside Operation Grim Beeper

) The Greatest Intelligence Operations Ever

) Can America Legally Kidnap Foreign Nationals?

) Was 9/11 the Most Complex Intelligence Operation Ever?

) The Location and Kidnap of Adolf Eichmann

) The Legendary Capture of Carlos the Jackal

) Why Working for the CIA Was So Much Fun

) How Mass Persuasion Works at Scale

) Does Working for the CIA Make You Paranoid?

) How to Spot a Liar

) How Interrogators Get People to Tell the Truth

) Should Torture Ever Be Legal?

) The Most Shocking Interrogation Tactics Used by the CIA

) What Really Happens at Guantanamo Bay?

) Was Uday Hussein One of the Most Evil Men Ever?

) Dominance vs Prestige: What Makes a Better Leader?

) Is This America’s First Botched Lethal Injection Execution?(

) Why John Is Obsessed With Angry Birds

) Is John a Model Now?

) What Everyone Gets Wrong About Intelligence Agencies

) Where to Find John

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John Kiriakou is a former CIA counterterrorism officer, intelligence whistleblower, journalist, and author.

Expect to learn who’s actually controlling the US government, what John thinks of the new Paramount/Warner Bros. Skydance Merger, why we should be worried about and taking China more seriously, if brainwashing is real in CIA interrogation techniques, the most impressive CIA operations they pulled off, why John plays Angry Birds every morning and much more…

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