John Kiriakou looked up from his desk at CIA headquarters and was stunned to see The Washington Post investigative reporter, Bob Woodward, walking through the secure area without an agency escort.
On another occasion, Kiriakou-who rose at the CIA to become executive assistant to the deputy in charge of operations, the spy agency's dark activities-saw CNN host Wolf Blitzer wandering unattended through the same area, despite the CIA's ban on communicating with the media.
"We like to think there's a Chinese wall between the CIA, especially senior CIA officials, and the American media," Kiriakou recently told the London Real podcast.
These days, Kiriakou is outraged for a different reason: the tight connection between the CIA and the media elite.
In 1977, Johnstone reminded her readers, Carl Bernstein of Watergate fame exposed the fact that the CIA supervised 400 reporters as agency "Assets." When Bernstein's article ran in Rolling Stone, it caused a tempest.
Nowadays, nobody blinks an eye when "Liberal" TV channels like CNN and MSNBC openly employ veterans of the CIA, FBI, NSA and other security agencies, such as commentators John Brennan, Jeremy Bash, Michael Hayden, James Clapper and Malcolm Nance.
Jay Penske went on his media buying spree courtesy of investment from Saudi Arabian royalty and New York hedge fund billionaire Daniel Loeb, who reportedly used former CIA agents to teach his staff deception techniques.
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