It’s not every day a former CIA officer sits down, looks straight into a camera and calmly explains how the agency can turn your phone, car and TV into tools of surveillance. Most of the time, that kind of talk lives in films, conspiracy threads and half-whispered pub arguments. John Kiriakou is one of the few people who can speak about it from the inside, and no longer has much to lose by doing so. Between 1990 and 2004, he worked for the CIA around the world, eventually becoming Chief of Counterterrorist Operations in Pakistan after 9/11. Later, he became the first US official to confirm the agency’s use of torture, and served 30 months in prison for passing classified information to the media. Since then, he’s made a second career out of saying the quiet parts out loud. In LADbib

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