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The Whistleblowers

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In The Whistleblowers, former CIA agent John Kiriakou brings you some of the bravest men and women fighting for justice. John himself knows what it’s like, having blown the whistle on CIA torture, paying the price with years in prison, and lawsuit upon lawsuit. On The Whistleblowers, John Kiriakou sings the praises and brings to light the people we rely on to keep our government and institutions in check.

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Mar 23, 2024 15:49

The Ukrainian whistleblower

Rudy Giuliani reaches out to a Ukrainian diplomat who has information about how his country tried to influence an American election and had in-depth knowledge of Hunter Biden’s business dealing with Ukraine while his father, Joe Biden, was Vice President. The informant eventually found himself sanctioned by the US Treasury Department, had his US visa revoked, and was placed on the no-fly list. Andrii Telizhenko joins John Kiriakou on this episode of the Whistleblowers.

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Mar 16, 2024 05:30

Iztok Plevnik: Where did the money go?

Iztok Plevnik led counterterrorism teams to retrieve evidence and to capture people around the world under indictment in the ICC. In 2017, his team found stash houses with pallets of American currency – notably, one with $6 billion and another with $10 billion in $100 bills. When Iztok tried to bring the money back to the US, the American Embassy turned on him, and he was arrested by the local authorities, jailed, beaten, and eventually expelled. Just weeks later, American government officials who were supposed to help him retired with new houses and new cars. On this episode of The Whistleblowers, John Kiriakou speaks with Iztok Plevnik’s attorney, Bruce Fein, about this nightmarish experience.

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Mar 9, 2024 08:42

The truth behind the 9/11 hijackers

Who funded the 9/11 hijackers? How did they go through the United States without being detected by the FBI? Were any of them actually recruited by the CIA? On this episode of the Whistleblowers, John Kiriakou gets to the bottom of these questions and more with investigative journalist, Kit Klarenberg, whose research with Greyzone UK he has uncovered some uncomfortable truths and connections between the 9/11 hijackers, an FBI informant, and the CIA.

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Mar 2, 2024 09:53

Assange awaits his fate

Millions of people around the world last week watched developments unfold in the case of Wikileaks cofounder Julian Assange. The UK’s High Court heard arguments on February 20 and 21 as to whether Assange should be extradited to the United States to face 17 felony counts of espionage and one count of misuse of a computer, all related to revelations that came to be known as the Afghan War Logs and the Collateral Murder Video released to Wikileaks by Chelsea Manning, formerly known as Bradley Manning.

Assange faces 175 years in prison in the United States. The High Court did not make an immediate decision on the extradition request, opting instead to do so on or before March 4. John is joined by Mohamed Elmaazi, lawyer and investigative journalist, to discuss the latest.

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Feb 24, 2024 05:49

Remembering John Pilger

Every generation has a journalist to whom most people can point as being transformative in world events. On this episode of the Whistleblowers, John Kiriakou speaks with friends of the late John Pilger. He was an Australian journalist, writer, scholar, and documentary filmmaker. Pilger became a household name in the 1970s when he secretly entered Cambodia in the aftermath of the overthrow of Pol Pot and broke the story of the Cambodian genocide, which became known as the Killing Fields. Randy Credico and Joe Lauria speak about their friend Pilger and how his documentary work and journalism pushed a generation of leaders.

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Feb 17, 2024 05:37

Triggering a whistleblower

On this episode of the Whistleblowers, John Kiriakou speaks with whistleblower and former Swiss banker Pascal Najadi. They discuss what triggered his whistleblowing and his many outlets as a whistleblower including Twitter, which continually got him banned before Elon Musk. Plus, they talk about some of his detractors.