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Kiriakou has serious "that happened" energy.
I'm not really qualified to guess how much of what he says is bullshit, and I'm sure you inevitably gain some stories being a CIA station chief or whatever, but the guy has a story about literally everything ever. He's been everywhere, he's met everyone, he knows everything about everything... and it really strains disbelief.
The guy obviously loves telling stories (and I'd even go so far as to say he's great at it), but I've gotta imagine that the vast majority of it is seriously embellished if not outright bullshit โ especially when so much of what he says seems designed to paint him favorably.
I bet he tells stories off-camera about how people eat up the psyops he runs without even really thinking deeply about blatantly ridiculous stories
Also if he was a real whistleblower I'm sure he'd have had a car accident or tragic mugging gone wrong or suicide by now.
Funny enough he was in a documentary about 17 Noembri