#LeavingHotelCalifornia - A #Guantanamo Bay Insider Story

#NeverForget
#TruthMatters
#RuleOfLaw
#HumanRights
#ForeverPrisoners
#UnjustifiableMeans

#LeavingHotelCalifornia - A #Guantanamo Bay Insider Story

Coming Soon (June 2026)

@johnkiriakou.bsky.social

#MoralDilemma #UnjustifiableMeans
#RuleOfLaw
#HumanRights
#NeverForget

In a similar case against the Titan Corporation, as well as a lawsuit against two psychologists who contracted with C.I.A. to help devise the agency’s brutal post-9/11 interrogation methods, settlements were reached before there was a trial.

#UnjustifiableMeans

SERE-ing #torture

#TrutnMatters

How Guantanamo lit the fuse for authoritarian rule in Trump’s America Hundreds of men were rounded up and wrongly imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay as part of the war on terror – where torture and abuse were commonplace. In a new book, human rights lawyer Eric Lewis examines...

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#UnjustifiableMeans

The legacy of #Guantanamo & #torture

As one senior naval official said most of the prisoners were “not just ‘low value detainees’, they were ‘no value detainees’ little more than ‘bounty babies’ who had been turned in by locals for cash.”

Guantanamo detainee Abu Zubaydah paid 'substantial' compensation by UK to settle torture complicity case Detained without trial in 2006, Zubaydah is one of 15 people who remain at the US military prison.

UK has paid "substantial" compensation to a victim of #SERE-ing #torture by CIA and remains imprisoned without trial at #Guantanamo after almost 20 years. #ForeverPrisoner Abu Zubaydah was the first human subject experimented on after the 9/11 attacks.
#UnjustifiableMeans
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Just released interview from the #IACP Conference where we discuss:

The #NCIS family & leading in the aftermath of #terrorist attacks

#FalseEvidencePloy & the trust dividend from #PolicingWithVirtue

#Tradecraft of #EffectiveInterviewing & Science-based #interrogation

#UnjustifiableMeans & #GTMO

🚨Breaking News for #IACP2025

I’ll be in Booth 2713 on October 19, 2pm-4pm, signing and giving away 100 copies of #UnjustifiableMeans

Looking forward to connecting with law enforcement leaders in Denver, as we work collectively at improving the practice of policing.

#LeadingWithVirtue

Operation Southern Exposure — at the Oceanfront on Jekyll Island

Let the Disruption begin!

I’ll be speaking about lessons learned from the GWOT in #UnjustifiableMeans and when The System is Blinking Red: Policing in the Aftermath of Terrorist Attacks.

For additional information on the #UnjustifiableMeans of #torture, #NCIS & #Guantanamo, check out @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Podcast with former @nbcnews.com producer Pamela Hamilton — author of “Lady Be Good”.

“…the duty not to obey an unlawful order”
#TruthMatters
pamelalhamilton.com/podcast/

Trump Administration Plans to Send Migrants to Libya on a Military Flight

Trump Administration Plans to Send Migrants to Libya on a Military Flight

From an old playbook! Ibn Sheikh Al-Libi was sent there after his #torture was outsourced to falsely claim there was Al-Qaida in Iraq…leading to war. Died in his cell!

#UnjustifiableMeans
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...

PODCAST Former NCIS Special Agent in Charge Mark Fallon joins Pamela Hamilton to discuss his undercover operations, post-9/11 investigations, and his explosive book Unjustifiable Means. A deep dive into le…

Stay tuned for this interview with Pamela Hamilton

Coming soon …

A Conversation on Leadership, Values, and High-Stakes Operations with Mark Fallon, Legendary #NCIS Special Agent in Charge and Author of #UnjustifiableMeans

#TruthMatters

pamelalhamilton.com/podcast/

Unjustifiable Means: The Inside Story of How the CIA, Pentagon, and US Government Conspired to Torture Unjustifiable Means: The Inside Story of How the CIA, Pentagon, and US Government Conspired to Torture [Fallon, Mark] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Unjustifiable Means: The Inside Story of How the CIA, Pentagon, and US Government Conspired to Torture

Also, see #UnjustifiableMeans to learn about the origins of #Guantanamo #torture

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Thanks so much @alkapradhan.bksy.social for the opportunity to speak to your class & talk about #UnjustifiableMeans: The Inside Story of How the CIA, Pentagon, and US Government Conspired to #Torture, as well as the current situation at #GTMO as a migrant camp.
#NeverForget
#TruthMatters
#RuleOfLaw

While I agree w/Fredman’s concerns re the release of potentially identifying information abt active CIA personnel, I’m not sure he’s the best spokesperson for #redacting & #censorship of the public record. #UnjustifiableMeans #ForeverPrisoner #torture #Guantanamo
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The #UnjustifiableMeans of an #UntilDeathDoTheyPart affront to the #RuleOfLaw.

#Guantánamo’s dark stain has hampered America’s ability to honestly condemn other countries for using arbitrary detention, #torture & #HumanRights abuses.

At 23 years & now at 15 prisoners, some have never been charged

Don’t miss @andreapitzer.bsky.social calling #Bullshit in:

“America Goes Rogue — And How We Come Back”

🚨#DutyToWarn🚨

🚨Indications & Warnings🚨

🙏 Thank you for including #UnjustifiableMeans and how policies of impunity for #torture and #WarCrimes enables future authoritarian transgressions.
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Author Discussion on Torture From the Virginia Festival of the Book, a discussion on human rights violations during wartime that featured Mark Fallon, [Unjustifiable Means], Andrea Pitzer, [One Long Night], and Mohamedou Ould Sla...

Thank you so much @andreapitzer.bsky.social ! It was wonderful talking with you today.

For those following Andrea, you may want to check out this CSPAN BookTV broadcast we did about my book, #UnjustifiableMeans, and Andrea’s book, One Long Night, and how #Guantanamo & #torture brought us together.