{"id":8504,"date":"2021-02-05T18:47:35","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T17:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/?p=6991"},"modified":"2021-02-05T18:47:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T17:47:35","slug":"cia-whistleblower-kiriakou-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/opinions\/cia-whistleblower-kiriakou-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"EDITORIAL PICK: Pay for pardons? CIA Whistleblower Kiriakou on Trump\u2019s final flop &#038; Biden CIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8 pb-3\">\n<p><strong>EDITORIAL PICK: Pay for pardons? CIA Whistleblower Kiriakou on Trump\u2019s final flop &amp; Biden CIA<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span>In this week\u2019s editorial pick for our Import program, we select an interview from the Grayzone project.<\/span><span><br \/>\n<\/span><span><br \/>\n<\/span><span>Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou about a recent story in the New York Times which alleges Trump allies attempted to sell presidential pardons. Kiriakou speaks about his personal experience dealing with Trump insiders, including Rudy Giuliani, in order to secure a pardon, saying he was told Giuliani would work on his behalf in exchange for $2 million. Parampil also asks Kiriakou to share his thoughts on Biden\u2019s intelligence picks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To read the transcript of this video:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Pay-for-pardons-CIA-Whistleblower-Kiriakou-on-Trump\u2019s-final-flop-Biden-CIA.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pay for pardons CIA Whistleblower Kiriakou on Trump\u2019s final flop &amp; Biden CIA<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>VIDEO: Pay for pardons? CIA Whistleblower Kiriakou on Trump\u2019s final flop &amp; Biden CIA<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pay for pardons? John Kiriakou on Trump\u2019s final flop &amp; Biden CIA\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G4nd6oOC4iU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>To watch more of our videos on this topic or with other experts such as Edward Snowden, Noam Chomsky, Abby Martin, Yanis Varoufakis, Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Jill Stein, Daniel Ellsberg, etc, please visit and subscribe to our YouTube channel by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/acTVismMunich?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Donate today to support independent &amp; non-profit media!<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0or on the picture below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4434 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future-300x100.jpg 300w\" width=\"700\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>ABOUT ANYA PARAMPIL<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BIO.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5869\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BIO-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"59\" height=\"59\" \/><\/a><strong>Anya Parampil<\/strong>\u00a0is a journalist based in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<p>She has produced and reported several documentaries, including on-the-ground reports from the Korean peninsula, Palestine, Venezuela, and Honduras. She previously hosted a daily progressive news show on RT America.<\/p>\n<hr \/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s editorial pick for our Import program, we select an interview from the Grayzone project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,886],"tags":[],"channel":[],"class_list":["post-8504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-opinions"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bezahlung f\u00fcr Begnadigungen? 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