Whistleblower Diaries • Replay

Whistleblower Diaries #1: John Kiriakou with Greg Barns SC

May 27, 2026

An exclusive Australian online conversation.
John Kiriakou was a senior CIA counterterrorism officer. He was also the first US intelligence official to confirm that the CIA was torturing detainees after 9/11. He went to prison for telling the truth. The officials who designed and ran the torture program did not. Now, for one evening only, Kiriakou joins Greg Barns SC for a conversation Australian audiences will not see anywhere else. A barrister, civil liberties advocate, and one of Australia's most prominent voices on justice and state power.

About Whistleblower Diaries
This is the first instalment of a new exclusive series from the Information Rights Project. We bring the world's most consequential truth-tellers into direct conversation with Australian audiences.

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