{"id":35273,"date":"2020-05-29T12:41:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T20:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=35273"},"modified":"2020-05-29T12:41:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T20:41:42","slug":"john-kiriakou-on-torture-whistleblowing-and-his-post-cia-life-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/29\/john-kiriakou-on-torture-whistleblowing-and-his-post-cia-life-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"John Kiriakou on Torture, Whistleblowing, and His Post-CIA Life (audio)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/\">The American Conservative<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On this edition of <em>Empire Has No Clothes<\/em>, Matt Purple, Kelley Vlahos, and Daniel Larison speak to John Kiriakou, who did 2 years in a federal prison after he exposed the CIA policy of waterboarding detainees after 9\/11. He talks about state sanctioned torture, his post-prison life as a whistleblower advocate and a radio host for Sputnik, Julian Assange, and Washington hypocrisy. In the intro segment they talk about trade czar Peter Navarro&#8217;s singular drive to facilitate weapons sales to Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/14593364\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/000000\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The American Conservative: On this edition of Empire Has No Clothes, Matt Purple, Kelley Vlahos, and Daniel Larison speak to John Kiriakou, who did 2 years in a federal prison after he exposed the CIA policy of waterboarding detainees after 9\/11. He talks about state sanctioned torture, his post-prison life as a whistleblower advocate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-35273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35276,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35273\/revisions\/35276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35273"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=35273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}