Tommy invited John Kiriakou on to usher in the new direction of the podcast. John is a former CIA analyst and counterterrorism expert turned whistleblower. Given his experience in the CIA he has a unique perspective on the intelligence world and how they interact with elected officials and the general population. In this episode John and Tommy discuss how the intelligence agencies interact with elected officials, the role the intelligence agencies play in foreign policy, updates on Assange, and the continuation of the Trump Russia scandal after the release of the Mueller report.
Whose Plan?
"The alternative is not plan or no plan. The question is whose planning? Should each member of society plan for himself, or should a benevolent government alone plan for them all? The issue is not automatism versus conscious action; it is autonomous action of each...