CIA lied about torture to own agency officials - but are you really surprised?

CIA was lying about torture even to its own staff - CIA veteran Kiriakou
RT News
February, 9 2013


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President Obama adopted most of President Bush’s counter-terrorism policies, argues John Kiriakou - the former CIA official who blew the whistle on the agency's torture practices and is now set to go behind bars for it.

After 9/11 Kiriakou served as the chief of counter-terrorist operations in Pakistan. Now he is heading to prison, having been sentenced to two-and-a-half years.

Despite that, he says he is proud to have played a role in outlawing torture. Voting for Obama, Kiriakou believed that it would bring positive change – but it never came, he told RT. “I never believed I would be going to prison under a President Obama. Never.”

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'Most people don’t realize this but President Obama has surrounded himself with the same Intelligence advisors who advised President Bush.'

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'The first Al-Qaeda I’ve ever caught was a 19-year-old boy from Tunisia. And the only reason he went to Afghanistan was he had nothing else to do.'

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'We find ourselves murdering people and in many cases children with no evidence whatsoever that they are involved in any criminal or terrorist activity...'

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