{"id":349710,"date":"2026-01-16T01:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=307c54166a8468d2f1128faf7150d0c8"},"modified":"2026-01-16T01:51:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:51:44","slug":"whistleblower-details-uap-encounter-what-is-the-cia-hiding-reality-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=349710","title":{"rendered":"Whistleblower Details UAP Encounter: What is the CIA Hiding? | Reality Check"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhoPfcsKNBjYR3ogvy-HwZK_bjCXyceW_akDpD-sqz7KwHDgBGjRS8U3sbjW9GKBZnd7C-RDKb8KiJaPxRxRUKneRZyXIljLiGDRZg12jCPXDkfCnWWdpdGnCFmT2DzK7B9TbseGlmNK7KpSzsCOG-PeBpRskiS5TT94g1jR2NYQsfooS9chSIxpKY-B5VY\/s669\/UAP-Whistleblower.png\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; \"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" width=\"500\" data-original-height=\"378\" data-original-width=\"669\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhoPfcsKNBjYR3ogvy-HwZK_bjCXyceW_akDpD-sqz7KwHDgBGjRS8U3sbjW9GKBZnd7C-RDKb8KiJaPxRxRUKneRZyXIljLiGDRZg12jCPXDkfCnWWdpdGnCFmT2DzK7B9TbseGlmNK7KpSzsCOG-PeBpRskiS5TT94g1jR2NYQsfooS9chSIxpKY-B5VY\/s500\/UAP-Whistleblower.png\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><center><big><b><font color=\"bright orange\">Whistleblower Details UAP Encounter:<br \/> What is the CIA Hiding? | Reality Check<\/b><\/font><\/big><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\nIn this episode of &#8220;Reality Check,&#8221; Ross Coulthart sits down with former CIA operative John Kiriakou, who served as a counterterrorism officer and was the first U.S. official to confirm CIA torture of detainees. He was punished for being a whistleblower, serving nearly two years in a federal prison. Since his release, he has become a leading advocate for transparency, civil liberties and whistleblower protections. <\/p>\n<p>Together, they discuss President Donald Trump&#8217;s decision to capture ousted Venezuelan leader Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, whether U.S. troops will attack Iran and why the U.S. government won&#8217;t admit to a UAP retrieval operation.<\/p>\n<p><U>Chapters<\/U>:<br \/>\n0:00 &#8211; Intro<br \/>\n3:00 &#8211; Was Trump&#8217;s Capture Of Maduro A Good Idea?<br \/>\n21:00 &#8211; Will Trump Bomb Iran?<br \/>\n24:53 &#8211; Interrogating Abu Zubaydah<br \/>\n30:00 &#8211; Is &#8220;Zero Dark Thirty&#8221; False?<br \/>\n31:00 &#8211; Finding Osama Bin Laden<br \/>\n35:00 &#8211; Isi&#8217;s<br \/>\n38:30 &#8211; The U.s. Torture Program<br \/>\n49:00 &#8211; Inside The Cia And History<br \/>\n53:05 &#8211; Is The Cia Hiding Uap Retrieval Crafts?<br \/>\n1:08:00- Outro<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"530\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EjLINIR3sS0?si=EaYCFdI31sX5c6tp\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b><font color=\"bright orange\">YouTube link:<\/font> <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/EjLINIR3sS0?si=LzB4Tl0gZXqIcGmf\" ><u>https:\/\/youtu.be\/EjLINIR3sS0?si=LzB4Tl0gZXqIcGmf<\/u><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whistleblower Details UAP Encounter: What is the CIA Hiding? | Reality Check<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of &#8220;Reality Check,&#8221; Ross Coulthart sits down with former CIA operative John Kiriakou, who served as a counterterrorism officer and was the first U.S. officia&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17],"tags":[11289],"class_list":["post-349710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ufo","category-ufo-news","tag-ufo-disclosure"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=349710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349711,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349710\/revisions\/349711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}