John Kiriakou Speaking Fee: $10,000 to $20,000

John Kiriakou is a former CIA senior counterterrorism officer and senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In 2007, he became the first U.S. intelligence official to publicly confirm that the CIA used waterboarding — an act he described as torture — on Al Qaeda prisoners. For telling the truth, he was prosecuted by the U.S. government and served 23 months in federal prison. Since then, Kiriakou has become one of the most prominent national-security whistleblowers in America. He is an advocate for civil liberties, a critic of government overreach, and an outspoken defender of moral courage inside the intelligence community. He is the author of eight books, including: · The Reluctant Spy · Doing Time Like a Spy · The Convenient Terrorist · The CIA Guide to Lying and Getting Away With It His work has appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He also appears regularly on major independent media platforms, including Democracy Now, Breaking Points, The Hill’s Rising, Al Jazeera, Scheer Intelligence, and dozens of podcasts and radio programs.