It’s an insurmountable conflict of interest to have the U.S. pardon attorney reporting directly to the Justice Department’s person in charge of prosecutions.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: An Unpardonable Process
Tag: CIA whistleblower
WATCH: For Once Trump Gets It Right on Censorship
Robert Scheer discusses Trump’s executive order banning government censorship and a range of free-press matters with Consortium News’ editor in chief Joe Lauria.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Pardon Me for Being Angry
Biden spurned the author’s strong case for a pardon while extending it over his entire immediate family, a crooked judge and a slew of others.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: The Godfather of Whistleblowers
When the author blew the whistle on the C.I.A.’s torture program in 2007, Daniel Ellsberg called to congratulate him and say he had friends at his side. Years later, at a red-carpet event in Hollywood, the “most dangerous man in…
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Michael Flynn & the FBI Setup
The case of the fallen Trump official shows exactly what is wrong with our criminal justice system.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Jeffrey Sterling’s ‘Unwanted Spy’
The CIA agent who was imprisoned after bringing a racial discrimination case against the agency has written a gripping David-and-Goliath account of being greatly wronged and coming out stronger on the other side.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: What was this CIA Officer Thinking?
Given Langley’s intolerance for whistleblowing, the current case now in the headlines has a couple of curious features.
MSM Defends CIA’s ‘Whistleblower,’ Ignores Actual Whistleblower
While championing a CIA agent who should be considered an operative until proven otherwise, much of the press is ignoring the plight of Chelsea Manning, who exposed actual U.S. war crimes, writes Caitlin Johnstone.