"Obama LIED To All Of Them" - John Kiriakou Drops BOMBSHELL On Barack''s Broken Promises

In 2009, John Kerry, as the newly appointed chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, hired the speaker to be the committee's chief investigator. Kerry expressed a desire to "root out wrongdoing" and "make an impact." However, the speaker later found this sentiment to be far from the truth. Prior to joining Capitol Hill, the speaker had befriended Mack McLarty, former chief of staff to President Clinton, who had partnered with Henry Kissinger to form Kissinger McLarty Associates. McLarty later gave the speaker an office in his suite. It was there that the speaker met Bill Richardson, former governor of New Mexico, congressman, Secretary of Energy, and Ambassador to the United Nations. The two became close friends. Richardson once confided in the speaker about a secret meeting with Barack Obama in January 2008, before the primaries. Richardson had invited Obama to his house to watch the Super Bowl. During halftime, while on a walk, Obama allegedly promised Richardson the position of Secretary of State if he endorsed him and brought in the Hispanic vote. Richardson, delighted, accepted and also secured a promise for the speaker to be his deputy chief of staff and later Ambassador to Greece in a second term. After Obama won the election, the speaker was shocked to hear on the radio that Richardson had been named Secretary of Commerce, not Secretary of State. Upon confronting Richardson, Richardson expressed his bewilderment about the Commerce position. The speaker tried to reassure him, suggesting they could leverage the Foreign Commercial Service and International Trade Representative roles within the Commerce Department, and that Richardson could still become Secretary of State in a second term. However, Richardson resigned a week later due to an investigation into alleged improper business dealings, though he was never indicted. The speaker then began his role as chief investigator on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee under John Kerry. The speaker observed that Kerry often went off-script during speeches, believing himself smarter than his speechwriters, which sometimes made him appear foolish. At a speech at the Brookings Institution, Kerry veered off-topic and claimed that Obama had promised him the Secretary of State position if he endorsed him before the Kennedys did. Kerry expressed feeling "screwed out of it." The speaker, present in the front row, tried to discreetly signal Kerry to get back on topic. After the speech, Kerry admitted he shouldn't have shared that story. The speaker then revealed to Kerry that Bill Richardson had been told the exact same story, implying that Obama had promised the Secretary of State position to "half a dozen people," deceiving them all. The speaker's experience as chief investigator proved frustrating. Kerry, eager to secure the Secretary of State position for himself, reportedly prevented the speaker from investigating anything that might displease Obama. For example, when the speaker investigated the Dash-e-Leile massacre in Afghanistan, finding human remains still clad in clothing, Kerry ordered him to "kill that investigation," citing that it happened a long time ago and it was time to "look forward." Another instance involved the discovery that smart chips in new American passports were made in China, and the passports were assembled in Thailand, not the United States. The speaker, concerned about potential security implications, wrote a memo suggesting that the U.S. should manufacture its own passports. Kerry, however, instructed him not to release the investigation, stating they didn't want to "embarrass the White House." Feeling unable to perform his duties, the speaker resigned after two years. He attributed Kerry's actions to his overwhelming desire to become Secretary of State. The speaker then recounted a story about Kerry's famous protest against the Vietnam War, where he reportedly threw his medals over the White House fence. The speaker discovered that Kerry had actually bought copies of his Silver Star, Bronze Stars, and Purple Heart from a PX that morning and threw those copies, keeping the originals. This revelation, according to the speaker, was not widely known. Finally, the speaker mentioned recent news about Bill Richardson's connections to Jeffrey Epstein, including multiple attempts to schedule meetings and a visit to Epstein's island, even after Epstein's conviction, which the speaker found "heartbreaking." The speaker, identifying himself as John Kiriakou, a former CIA officer, invited listeners to connect with him on MCT to discuss topics such as the CIA, FBI, DoD, torture, secret prisons, international renditions, or tips for applying to the CIA.