by Niamh Harris, The Peoples Voice:
Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer John Kiriakou has warned that intelligence agencies are capable of turning smart TVs into covert listening devices, even when they seem to be powered down — a claim that echoes classified material published by WikiLeaks nearly a decade ago.
Kiriakou is a former CIA insider rather than a fringe figure. He served with the agency between 1990 and 2004 and later became the first CIA officer to publicly acknowledge the use of waterboarding during a 2007 interview with ABC News.
A post about the CIA’s surveillance powers went viral on X on 21 May after the account @LeadingReport shared footage of the agency’s former counter terrorism chief stating that the CIA “can access your phone and laptop microphones and cameras.”
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The CIA can access your phone and laptop microphones and cameras, per former CIA officer John Kiriakou. pic.twitter.com/dMnrCTTqOn
— Leading Report (@LeadingReport) May 21, 2026
MSN reports: Kiriakou’s warnings trace directly to the ‘Vault 7’ leak, a trove of more than 8,000 classified CIA files that WikiLeaks began publishing on 7 March 2017. The documents, which dated from 2013 to 2016, detailed the agency’s cyber warfare toolkit and exposed a programme codenamed ‘Weeping Angel.’
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