John Kiriakou was the first U.S. government official to confirm that waterboarding was official policy; he spent 23 months in prison after being convicted of passing classified information to a reporter. In the first of an ongoing, 8-part episode of Reality Asserts Itself, while still under house arrest, Kiriakou tells Paul Jay of TheRealNews that he used to believe America did bad things for good reasons, and now he does not.
https://youtu.be/wlJO1uL1CsE
In Part 2, John Kiriakou tells Paul Jay about being recruited to join the CIA
https://youtu.be/Mabclbi5Dp4
In Part 3 Kiriakou tells Paul Jay that from Iraq to Bahrain, it was becoming clear to him that commercial interest, particularly arms sales, was driving U.S. policy in the Middle East.
https://youtu.be/NWlx41Hqf5A
