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Rogue Investigator BLOWS LID OFF on Strange Theory | Zach Foust
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- Julian Dorey Daily
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- Sep 10, 2026
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WATCH FULL EPISODE: https://youtu.be/SbEng6UYapY Subscribe Here: @JulianDoreyDaily ZACH's LINKS: IG: https://www.instagram.com/zachary.loft/?hl=en YT: https://www.youtube.com/@ZachFoustShow/videos WEBSITE: https://zachary-loft-shop.fourthwall.com/ --- John Kiriakou is one of the most prominent CIA critics in the American public sphere. He was the first US official to confirm the CIA's use of waterboarding as torture. He served 23 months in federal prison after being prosecuted under the Espionage Act. He has appeared on Joe Rogan built a significant Substack following toured Europe with an evening show and become one of the most trusted voices for people who believe the CIA cannot be trusted. And Zach Foust — a rogue investigator who has spent significant time pulling threads on the intelligence community — has developed a specific and documented theory that John Kiriakou is still CIA. Julian Dorey examines the theory the evidence Foust has assembled and what the honest answer to the question actually looks like. The theory is not that Kiriakou lied about going to prison. He went to prison. It is not that his opposition to CIA torture was fabricated. His opposition appears genuine and his prosecution appears to have been genuine. The theory is more specific and more structurally alarming than a simple controlled opposition argument — it is that the CIA's relationship with its most prominent public critics is more complicated than the whistleblower-versus-institution binary that the public narrative presents, that specific elements of Kiriakou's post-prison public positioning serve institutional interests in ways that are worth examining, and that the history of CIA management of its own critics through mechanisms more subtle than prosecution is documented and relevant…