Kiriakou, John

John Kiriakou is a senior staff member in the United StatesSenate. He served in the Central Intelligence Agency from 1990 to2004, first as an analyst and later as a counterterrorism operationsofficer. He was later named the executive assistant to the CIA s AssociateDeputy Director for Operations, in which capacity he wasintimately involved in planning the Iraq War. His op-eds on theMiddle East and Afghanistan have appeared in more than eightynewspapers in dozens of countries. He lives in Washington, DC.