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CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou talks about the JFK Files, USAID, Donald Trump and endless war. But first Nathan Tankus breaks down what the hell Elon Musk is doing.
00:00:00 Katie introduces the Nathan Tankus and John Kiriakou
00:02:25 The Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025
00:09:08 I Asked Former Bureau of the Fiscal Service Employees to Interpret An Elon Musk Tweet
00:12:45 The fact that he’s tweeting about the Bureau of the Fiscal Service is fundamentally insane
00:15:40 Marko Elez gets access to all of our social security numbers thanks to Elon
00:23:45 This is about Elon Musk being able to control government spending
00:28:00 There is an agenda but also there is a stupidity to this
00:30:00 Elon Musk and the IRS
00:36:00 How did the Democrats enable what Trump and Musk can do with DOGE?
00:44:20 The weaponization of the holocaust to justify genocide
00:51:00 Advice on how to fight Musk and Israel
00:55:20 Palantir’s CEO Alex Karp on Elon, Trump, and the Deep State
01:01:45 How In-Q–Tel, the CIA’s venture capital fund, built Palantir
01:04:00 Kiriakou’s punishment for whistleblowing on the torture program
01:07:20 John Kiriakou shares an email from a CIA agent
01:09:45 NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani On the Cost of Pardoning Whistleblowers
01:17:30 Kiriakou’s attempt to get a pardon from Barack Obama
01:19:45 I lost everything and i would do it again because it was the right thing to do
01:25:00 The numbers of pardons given in the last few decades are dwarfed by Richard Nixon
01:28:20 How the USAID program was used for CIA cover by Henry Kissinger
John Kiriakou is the only person to go to jail over the CIA torture program, which he blew the whistle on. He is a former CIA analyst and case officer, a PEN USA Award Winner and best-selling author. He’s the host of Political Misfits and writes at http://johnkiriakou.substack.com
In addition to being the Publisher of Notes on the Crises, Nathan Tankus is the Research Director of the Modern Money Network. He has written for the Financial Times, Politico, Rolling Stone, Business Insider, The Guardian, The Appeal, The American Prospect and JSTOR Daily. His work has also been extensively covered in The Washington Post, Bloomberg, The Nation, Marketwatch, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Fortune Magazine, Vox, The Hill and The New Republic among other outlets. He was also the subject of a major profile in Bloomberg Businessweek, which has made him a sought after speaker and expert on the technical details of monetary policy, central banking and economic policy more broadly.
Nathan is currently working on a book, under contract with Viking Press of Penguin. It is in the process of being rethought as a result of the “Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025.”
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