# Source note — John Kiriakou Voices source-card

Published: 2026-08-09

## Social lead
- User supplied: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/18xuSgfZEB/?mibextid=wwXIfr
- Resolved: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1975200243089748
- Canonical video page: https://www.facebook.com/61587607088411/videos/john-kiriakous-family-doesnt-talk-to-him/1975200243089748/
- Metadata title: “1.3M views · 21K reactions | John Kiriakou's family doesn't talk to him... | John Kiriakou”
- Downloaded/transcribed media duration: about 141.8 seconds.

## Identification
The Facebook metadata, page text and video title identify the person as John Kiriakou. Thumbnail and transcript match a personal interview clip about family estrangement.

## Primary / official / public sources checked
- Official website: https://johnkiriakou.com/
- Official About page: https://johnkiriakou.com/about/
- Official Work page: https://johnkiriakou.com/johns-work/
- Official Books page: https://johnkiriakou.com/johns-work/books/
- Official Articles page: https://johnkiriakou.com/johns-work/articles/
- Substack: https://johnkiriakou.substack.com/
- Government Accountability Project bio: https://whistleblower.org/bio-john-kiriakou/
- Facebook video page: https://www.facebook.com/61587607088411/videos/john-kiriakous-family-doesnt-talk-to-him/1975200243089748/
- Responsible Statecraft author archive: https://responsiblestatecraft.org/author/jkiriakou/
- Consortium News tag/archive: https://consortiumnews.com/tag/john-kiriakou/
- Ephemera interview: https://ephemerajournal.org/contribution/battle-whistleblower-interview-john-kiriakou-0
- Senate Intelligence Committee torture-report PDF was checked as background context for the broader torture record.

## Evidence labels
- Documented public record: former CIA analyst/case officer/counterterrorism operations officer; later Senate Foreign Relations Committee investigator and ABC News consultant; 2007 ABC interview publicly confirmed CIA waterboarding and called it torture; later prosecution and 30-month sentence.
- Advocacy framing: whistleblower organizations describe him as punished for exposing torture and note the dropped Espionage Act charges in the plea deal.
- Government/legal framing: prosecution centered on unauthorized disclosure of classified/covert-identity information; this article avoids erasing that government-case frame.
- Personal testimony: family-estrangement claims are from the public Facebook clip and are not independently verified here.

## Captured local artifacts
- facebook-video-metadata.json
- facebook-video-transcript-whisper.txt
- facebook-video-metas.txt
- facebook-video-thumbnail.jpg