john kiriakou says ecuador is refusing to buckle under pressure from other countries you know this isn't a one sided thing i'm sure that the ecuadorian government is under great pressure from the united states from the united kingdom perhaps from sweden maybe even australia which is where julian is ridgeley from so certainly there are two sides to this i am sure there is a lot going on behind the scenes that we just don't know we understand the background to this case we also understand how important transparency is and freedom of speech and freedom of the press we wanted the ecuadorian government to know that. the u.s. has imposed new sanctions on russia targeting twenty four officials and business people as well as fourteen entities the russian foreign ministry has reacted to the measure saying the u.s. is trying to impose its head gemini even on strong independent states. breaks down the latest measures and who is being targeted while it's the names that are new the reasons are actually old on the u.s. treasury website you will find the explanation and it says that it's all because al

and john kiriakou says ecuador is refusing to buckle under pressure from other countries. you know this isn't a one sided thing i'm sure that the ecuadorian government is under great pressure from the united states from the united kingdom perhaps from sweden maybe even australia which is where julian is originally from so certainly there are two sides to this i'm sure there's a lot going on behind the scenes that we just don't know we understand the background to this case we also understand how important transparency is and freedom of speech and freedom of the press we wanted the ecuadorian government to know that. now the us government has approved the sale of artillery worth one point three billion dollars to saudi arabia the deal comes at the end of the saudi crown prince's three week visits to the us and as part of one of the biggest alms deals washington has ever signed. weapons deal comes with saudi arabia still heavily involved in the yemeni war riyadh first intervened in twenty fifteen and the situation in yemen is now described by the u.n. as the worst manmade hu

earlier but former intelligence officer and whistleblower john kiriakou. gina has a boy the president travels picked for them as cia director. because of i understand you might have a few issues with that decision and that choice yes i did and let me let me preface this by saying though when you hear cia officers and former cia officer saying she was professional she was smart she was accomplished she was fun and highly educated in all these accolades all true and all irrelevant what is relevant is that she committed crimes against humanity and for that she should not be rewarded i said in an op ed in the washington post a few weeks ago what kind of a message does this send to the cia workforce the message is you can commit crimes with impunity war crimes crimes against humanity you can specifically disregard the instructions of the oversight committees again with impunity and you can still get promoted and indeed you can even be promoted to director well that is exactly the opposite of what the message should be what kind of message does this send to our

for leaking national security information to the intercept joining tire of winter earlier was john kiriakou a former cia officer and whistleblower to discuss the case and more. done thank you very much always a pleasure having you with us in mind thank you recently we've seen whistleblower the f.b.i.'s terry obery he step forward minnesota was targeted through the espionage act. for passing along national defense information to reporters allegedly at the intercept you know subsided and cheap but see read stated news reports have suggested that the process prosecution may be linked to stories published by the intercept we did not discuss anonymous sources the use of the espionage act a person who was a blower seeking to shed light on matters of vital public concern is an outrage now john i've read you've put out word you've stated some very strongly that potential whistle board should avoid the ever so yes it took you were one journalist there yes could you elaborate on that why what's happening oh yeah i think that the intercept probably means well i do. but they go about it in a very amate

john kiriakou again told me ecuador is refusing to parco under pressure from other countries. you know this isn't a one sided thing i'm sure that the ecuadorian government is under great pressure from the united states from the united kingdom perhaps from sweden maybe even australia which is where julian is originally from so certainly there are two sides to this i am sure there's a lot going on behind the scenes that we just don't know we understand the background to this case we also understand how important transparency is and freedom of speech and freedom of the press we wanted the ecuadorian government to know that. u.s. stocks have tumbled on fears of a trade war with beijing the dow jones lost almost six hundred points on friday after president trump threatened to impose new tires with one hundred billion dollars now a year on imports from china. is in new york with the latest. for months global analysts have been fearing and anticipating the possibility of what they would refer to as a trade war between the two largest economies in the world the united states and the p

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you give this to them well john kiriakou is here himself thanks for making the time to be with us what are you trying to achieve here in. the ecuadorian embassy going to listen to anyway. well you know when i delivered the letter i thought that maybe we had a chance and perhaps we still do have a chance but the wall street journal reported something yesterday that was very troubling to me and that was in an article entitled ecuador is open for business in which it said that ecuador was actively seeking investment from the united states so i wonder if if ecuador's financial interests might outweigh the interests of freedom of the press and of transparency with that said there are a lot of people all around the world who are watching what ecuador is doing and we're hoping for the best we've made our opinions known we hope that they take our advice well acquittals line here is the sun just post a sign to deal not talk about certain things he didn't keep his part of the bargain so therefore they're not going to keep their part of the bargain although they are of course still given him safe