John Kiriakou

I have really gone down the rabbit hole on this guy. John Kiriakou, former CIA agent, whistleblower, convicted felon, inmate, and finally social media icon. I listened to him on a couple of podcasts, and he was really interesting. He talked about what life was like recruiting assets in foreign countries, life as an analyst, and finally, all of the political infighting that happens at Langley. Was fascinating stuff. Then I learned about his books. The one that caught my eye was, Doing Time Like a Spy. He went to prison for releasing some secrets about the CIA’s torture program - IMO, he is a whistleblower.

This is a great read! I went through it in 3 days or so, and it was just so interesting. When you think about it, he really did receive training that would make it easy to navigate a place like prison. It did get really Machiavellian - but when you want a ChoMo (child molester) to get out of your cell, you would probably stop at nothing as well.

He has a ton of podcasts right now; he is kind of blowing up. He is incredibly well read, well spoken, and he really writes in such a way that he can maintain one’s interest really well.

Thumbs up - go check it out.