Howie Dewitt 

A former CIA officer just casually confirmed what every privacy advocate has been screaming about. The CIA can turn your phone into a microphone. Your laptop camera into a surveillance device. Your smart TV into a listening post. Even when it looks powered off. John Kiriakou worked for the CIA for 15 years. Ran operations in Pakistan after 9/11. Then spent time in prison for whistleblowing on torture. Now he's confirming the obvious. The evidence is the Vault 7 leak. 2017. WikiLeaks published 8,000 classified CIA files. Detailed cyber warfare toolkit. Exposed a program called Weeping Angel. Joint CIA and MI5 project. Designed to hack Samsung smart TVs. Put them in fake-off mode. Still recording. Still listening. The leaked documents showed tools for hacking cars. Smart speakers. Connected devices. Anything with a microphone. Anything with a camera. Anything connected to the internet. Kiriakou just confirmed it on video. Asked directly: can they do this? His answer: absolutely. Vault 7 documents. Then he went viral on X. The tech companies said no. We don't grant direct access. But cybersecurity specialists said yeah. You're internet-connected. You're vulnerable. And Kiriakou just made it official. The CIA has had these tools since at least 2013. Probably still uses them. Probably expanded them. Your smart TV isn't smarter than the CIA's hacking toolkit. Your phone isn't more secure than a classified cyber warfare program. Your laptop camera isn't protected against tools that were designed to defeat protection. The former spy confirmed it. And nobody's surprised. Because we all knew it was true. He just made it officially true.