He did two years in prison for exposing America's torture program. It's time to right Barack Obama's worst injustice.

Promoting her to be director sends all the wrong messages.

In a joint letter, news organizations warned that the indictment of Julian Assange “sets a dangerous precedent” that could chill reporting about matters of national security.

Of its alleged 10 million documents leaked, less than 3,000 remain accessible on WikiLeaks' website.

The Intercept published a story that landed Reality Winner in prison, burning its third source. That article was co-authored by Richard Esposito, an embedded police reporter who is now the NYPD's top...

The agency is trying to get a pass on crimes even before they’re committed and it represents a threat to press freedom. By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium News The CIA has quietly asked the...

Among the more than 50 signatories to Monday's letter are John Brennan, Leon Panetta, and Michael Morell.

Yanis Varoufakis has been brutally attacked at a restaurant in Athens

Former CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou personally knew CIA director nominee Gina Haspel when he worked at the CIA. But their careers have taken very different paths over the past decade....

It’s called the “Mail Cover Program” and it’s run by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). Yes, even the Post Office is spying on us, writes John Kiriakou. By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium News You...

Kiriakou writes: The arrest this week of NSA contractor Reality Winner on Espionage Act charges of providing national defense information to The Intercept is the clearest evidence to date that...

CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou joins Robert Scheer to discuss the dark history of America’s torture program, and the normalization of the Espionage Act to attack those that expose the secret…

Northrop Grumman, the third largest military contractor in the world, was allegedly involved in falsely accusing CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou of

In a broadcast exclusive interview, we spend the hour with John Kiriakou, a retired CIA agent who has just been released from prison after blowing the whistle on the George W. Bush administration’s...

He became the target of a massive, secret investigation that began at the behest of former CIA Director John Brennan. When the FBI couldn't find enough evidence, Brennan demanded an indictment...

Prime minister says he raised Wikileaks co-founder’s case with US representatives recently and will continue to push for it to be ‘brought to a close’

The Obama administration has prosecuted more people under the Espionage Act, a World War I-era law, than all previous presidents combined.

Kiriakou writes: Many Americans, at least most in my circle, are enjoying watching Donald Trump self-destruct. It's bad for the country, but to some of us it's as much fun as watching a train wreck.

Excerpt: Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) officials last week gave CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling a parting shot by adding a month of prison time to his sentence. Sterling was due to be released...

"Doing Time Like A Spy" is a Foreword INDIES finalist in Autobiography & Memoir (Adult Nonfiction). A great memoir offers the-rest-of-the-story appeal, and when the CIA, 9/11, waterboarding, whistl...

He represented former attorney general John Mitchell in the Watergate scandal, White House intern Monica Lewinsky, and the spies Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen.

By nominating Gina Haspel to head the CIA, the president has defined himself as a fatally callous leader.

With Justice Department investigators' noses to the ground, it should be just a matter of time before they identify Brennan as fabricator-in-chief of the Russiagate story, says Ray McGovern. By Ray...

Kiriakou writes: Like many Americans, I followed news of the release of the FBI Inspector General's (IG) report last week closely. It's no secret that I hate the FBI.

The man who did 30 months in prison for exposing waterboarding program speaks out on Trump's CIA pick.

A new report linking the unfounded conspiracy to Russian intelligence is much thinner than what we already know.

More than two dozen former U.S. intelligence officers urge President Trump to rescind Gina Haspel’s nomination to lead the CIA, citing torture that she oversaw while supervising a black site prison,...

A 2016 law was supposed to, at last, give FBI whistleblowers the protections most other federal employees have. But three years after the bill's passage, at least one FBI whistleblower says he's...

Kiriakou writes: Last week, the Central Intelligence Agency declassified what at first glance appears to be an innocuous transcript of a request for discovery and witnesses made by Guantanamo defense...