Staff / TruthdigOct 29, 2015
This year, the president should extend some Thanksgiving clemency to human beings—starting with Leonard Peltier. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
By John Kiriakou, Other WordsOct 21, 2015
The former secretary of state attacked the NSA whistleblower without bothering to get her facts straight. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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By John KiriakouOct 19, 2015
History may smile on these guardians of the public trust, but during their lifetimes they remain outcasts. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigAug 10, 2015
Getting hassled during international travel is an “unseen addition” to the 30-month prison sentence and the loss of his federal pension that the CIA whistleblower has discovered in the wake of confirming that the U.S. government tortured terrorism suspects post-9/11. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Natasha Hakimi Zapata / TruthdigMay 31, 2015
The former CIA agent has seen his life ripped apart by the government because he revealed CIA torture. However, he continues to stand up for truth and humaneness and against a system that views all of us as undiscovered felons. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
John Kiriakou / TruthdigMay 29, 2015
The US government is out to "ruin" people who expose official wrongoing "in every conceivable way," says John Kiriakou in an interview with Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer Kiriakou is a 14-year CIA veteran who was jailed for confirming that the U government tortured prisoners via waterboarding. Dig deeper ( 39 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigFeb 26, 2015
When a magistrate sentenced the literary genius to two years of hard labor for the crime of being gay, he said it was the maximum punishment allowed by law. That turned out to be truer than the judge might have imagined. It killed him. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
John Kiriakou / TruthdigFeb 11, 2015
The former CIA agent-turned-whistleblower tells Amy Goodman he doesn't regret his decision to expose the Bush administration's use of waterboarding. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigFeb 10, 2015
One of the U.S.' most respected civil liberties organizations collaborated with President Reagan's CIA in writing secrecy laws that enabled the prosecution of Bush-era whistleblower John Kiriakou, reports Mark Ames at Pando Daily. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigApr 24, 2014
How far would you go to tell the truth? "Democracy Now!" talks with James Spinoe, director of the new documentary "Silenced," which follows three national security whistle-blowers who struggle "to reveal the darkest corners of America’s war on terror while enduring the wrath of a government increasingly determined to maintain secrecy." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMar 30, 2013
This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: A deeper look at the Supreme Court's historic week, the Obama administration harasses whistle-blowers, and "Duck Dynasty" in revolt. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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