#John Kiriakou

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“The allegation that Giuliani was offering pardons for $2 million has been made before. In January 2021, shortly before Trump left office, the New York Times reported that former CIA officer John Kiriakou had been ‘told that Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani could help him secure a pardon for $2 million.’ Kiriakou rejected the request, but an associate worried about the legality of such an offer tipped off the FBI. Kiriakou was not granted a pardon.”

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So, Sacha Baron Cohen recently endorsed Kamala Harris in a fittingly racist islamophobic manner, by bringing back his character Borat. Yes, it's 2024.

Anyway, here's a 2022 investigation of SBC's vile Zionism and connections to the USA and Israeli intelligence, as well as an insight into the role of the US-American cinema as a propaganda tool.

Article: https://www.mintpressnews.com/closer-scrutiny-reveals-close-state-power-sacha-baron-cohen-really/279355/

Archived link: https://archive.is/7dSTL

Some quotes:

When asked about the national security state’s role in shaping pop culture, the former intelligence officer [John Kiriakou] said that it is “far more cynical” than most people realize, explaining:

” There is a branch inside the CIA’s Office Of Public Affairs whose job is solely to work with Hollywood Studios. This is something that the FBI has been doing since the 1940s. They’ll cooperate and give the red carpet treatment to any Hollywood studio that’s willing to make the CIA look good. “ [...]

In the end, “Brüno’s” production company did interview someone they claimed was a terrorist (in the Letterman interview, Baron Cohen described the man as such eight times in the space of three minutes). However, the person in question – Palestinian grocer and NGO worker Ayman Abu Aita – vigorously denied he was a terrorist at all. He claimed that Baron Cohen had told him the interview would be about his peace activism and that his life and business had been destroyed as a result. Abu Aita sued for nearly $100 million. The case was settled for an undisclosed sum in 2012. [...]

Even from an early age, Sacha was reportedly obsessed with the Jewish state. “He was very Zionist, very involved in Habo,” recalled one friend, referring to Habonim Dror, a left-wing Zionist group of which he was a member. Others remembered him as “a very nerdy, very funny, Israel-oriented guy” who went to live on a kibbutz in his youth. He appears to idolize Shimon Peres, traveling to meet him in 2012 and sharing quotes from the former Israeli president on his social media accounts. Peres, of course, oversaw the genocide of Palestinians in 1948, attempted to sell nuclear weapons to Apartheid South Africa, and carried out the ethnic cleansing of the Galilee region. [...]

Unsurprisingly, Baron Cohen has also campaigned fiercely against the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, presenting it as viciously antisemitic. “Boycotting? Yeah, fantastic. As long as they are Jews, it is alright. I’m not a racist, but keep the Jews out,” he said, in an attempt to satirize their position. [...]

Much of the movie is actually spent “on location” in “Kazakhstan,” where Borat takes the viewer around an unimaginably poor-looking village, making fun of how backward “his people” are. There are no Western egos or ignorance being punctured here. In fact, it was shot in a gypsy encampment in Romania, where locals were paid around $3 each to be humiliated by a man who spoke to them in a language they did not understand. The villagers were told they were appearing in a sympathetic documentary highlighting their lives. “Borat” made over $262 million at the box office. [...]

The racism was further amplified with the 2020 release of “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.” Within the first two minutes of the sequel, Borat informs us that Kazakhstan has canceled their traditional event, “the running of the Jew,” but fortunately his country still has Holocaust Remembrance Day, “when we commemorate our heroic soldiers who ran the camps.” Borat also received an award, which he stated will be “put in our national museum along with other treasure we have confiscated from Jews.” [...]

In actual fact, as many have pointed out, Kazakhstan was a haven for Jewish people during the Holocaust, not a perpetrator of it, saving thousands of Jewish lives by taking in people from Eastern Europe and other states of the U.S.S.R. Today, the country is commended by Jewish groups as a model of tolerance. It is also, notably, not a helplessly sexist nation; Save The Children ranked it higher than the United States in its list of best countries to grow up female.

This is a rather inconvenient truth for the Israeli state-building project Baron Cohen supports. Ironically, perhaps the most shocking and newsworthy case of exposing bigotry Baron Cohen has documented has never been revealed. While in character as Brüno in Jerusalem, Baron Cohen was beaten nearly to death by an enraged crowd of homophobic Israelis, who, angered by his camp and sacrilegious attire, started stoning him, on camera. Baron Cohen was reportedly “nearly killed.” Kiriakou told MintPress that Baron Cohen told him that a rabbi even spat on him. It was the only time in his career that he broke character and desperately yelled that he was an Israeli Jew, not a homosexual foreigner. The comedian fled for his life and found refuge in a nearby store bathroom. This footage has never seen the light of day. Perhaps it sends the “wrong” message.

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So this guys short videos came up in my feed. Seems legit and fascinating. 15 years of CIA in many significant and noteworthy positions. Always was against torture, the black ops, FISA abuses, and monitoring Americans. And all the extrapolated versions, word games, and transferred responsibility there in.

Eventually he couldn’t take it anymore and broke the news to the media. You know how that went…23 months in jail.

There’s surely more nuance to the above but the allegations he comes out with are astounding. But not surprising really.

Worth a look to understand the utter shit storm likely to go down soon.

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CIA-Whistleblower enthüllt US-Sicherheitsstaat | John Kiriakou

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27.01.2025 - Neutrality Studies (https://www.youtube.com/@NeutralityStudiesDE/videos)

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John Kiriakou war ein Geheimdienstoffizier für Terrorismusbekämpfung, der 14 Jahre lang bei der CIA arbeitete. Im Jahr 2007 wurde er der erste US-Beamte, der das globale und verfassungswidrige Programm der außerordentlichen Überstellungen und Folter enthüllte. Letztendlich wurde er von der Obama-Regierung wegen seines Verbrechens, die Verbrechen seiner Regierung aufzudecken, strafrechtlich verfolgt und inhaftiert. John Kiriakou spricht mit dem unabhängigen Journalisten Harrison Berger über seine Folterenthüllungen, seine Strafverfolgung, die niederträchtige Rolle des US-Sicherheitsstaates in der Innenpolitik, ob Trump den Tiefen Staat bekämpfen wird und vieles mehr.

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By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium News

I wrote in October that Joe Biden, in his four years as president, did literally nothing to improve the situation in prisons and jails across the country, either through the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), over which he has direct authority, or through enlightened policies that might filter down or set the standard in state prisons and in local jails.  

As we bump up against the end of the Biden administration, I wanted to take a look at this president’s final year in office and at what legacy he’s leaving in criminal justice.

— California, at the demand of the Justice Department in September, paid $4 million to five victims of a former guard at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla and another $450,000 to a former prisoner at the California Institution for Women in Chino for rape and sexual assault at the hands of at least four guards. 

One of those guards, Greg Rodriguez, is facing 96 counts of rape, sodomy and sexual battery.  But because he resigned before being arrested, he has been allowed to keep his pension.

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Despite Law and Order Rhetoric, Trump May Surprise in Second Term

Flanked by police officials, Donald Trump announces his support for a proposal by a bipartisan group of lawmakers to substantially rewrite sentencing and prison laws in November 2018. [Source: nytimes.com] John Kiriakou Donald Trump has a lot of faults. God knows that we have discussed them at length here at CovertAction Magazine and in other venues. But if there is one thing that Trump is right…

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Consortium News:

There is both good news and bad news across the United States as it relates to the death penalty. The federal government and 27 states currently have the death penalty. Five of those states — California, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Tennessee — currently have a pause on executions. Furthermore, the Death Penalty Policy Project says that 153 people were exonerated in 2023 and were removed from death row. Can you imagine? States were set to execute 153 innocent people! And that’s just in a normal year.

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Wisner's Wurlitzer

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CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou: The CIA has co-opted American journalists

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CIA Insider Explains DARPA Directed Energy Weapons | John Kiriakou

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- “Hublot”

- “Pedophile” - “child predator” - “its not (what you think) it is” - “let’s clarify”

- “(“Omit”) (“childlike” - “childless player”) Trickster” - “Marriam Webster”

- “3 - 5%” - “minimum” - “kidding (“playful - child”)” - “maximum”

- “(“Who knows?”) Who blows? (“Who goes?”)”

- “Rio (“Rika”)” - “Witz” (German: Joke)

- “Rui (Shipper)”

- “Cheese”

- “Leak”

- “Joshua Weissmann”

- “John Kiriakou”

- “Consortium News”

- “Murder”

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By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium News

On the surface of things, Kash Patel is the kind of person most of us would want to keep out of government.

A MAGA true believer, and Donald Trump’s choice to head the F.B.I., he’s the tip of the spear of Trump’s apparent effort to use the courts to go after his perceived enemies in the media and on Capitol Hill. 

The mainstream Democratic-oriented press is apoplectic about the appointment.  The Christian Science Monitor said it most clearly when it wrote that,

“Democrats invoke (the notorious late F.B.I. Director J. Edgar Hoover) as they warn about Mr. Patel, suggesting he will target political enemies.  Republicans, though, compare Hoover’s tenure to what they say is a modern ‘deep state” resisting and harassing Mr. Trump.” 

That’s the bottom line. Democrats compare him to Hoover while Republicans argue that he’s the anti-Hoover.

I’m here to argue that Kash Patel is exactly what Americans need right now at the F.B.I.  We need somebody with the guts and the political authority to burn the F.B.I. down, at least figuratively.

First, I’m under no illusions that Kash Patel is a good guy. According to former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, Patel is “salivating” at the opportunity to investigate and, apparently, charge former Rep. Liz Cheney with some sort of crime because of her work on the Jan. 6 Committee. 

This is not only wrong, it also ignores the fact that Cheney had congressional immunity for her work because she was serving in an official capacity for the committee. Nothing will come of any investigation.