The Man the CIA Should Never Have Messed With

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He captured Al-Qaeda's number three, briefed the President every morning and earned ten performance awards. Then the CIA asked him to torture prisoners, and he said no. When the agency tried to make him the fall guy for its own crimes, John Kiriakou did what no officer had ever done — he went on national television and said the word "torture" out loud. The CIA responded by prosecuting him under the same statute used to cage Cold War spies. The torturers walked free. The man who built the program became CIA director. Kiriakou went to prison. This is the true story of the officer who took on the most powerful intelligence agency on earth and refused to break.

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CHAPTERS
0:00 - Intro
1:17 - The True Believer
7:50 - The Line He Wouldn't Cross
13:05 - The Hunt
17:17 - They Couldn't Break Him
21:50 - The War After Prison

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