John Kiriakou
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Yes, which is funny for a couple of reasons.
There was no such thing at the time as an interrogation class.
The FBI has deep years long interrogation classes.
We never had to interrogate anybody.
And in fact, when we started capturing prisoners in Pakistan in January of 2002, I'm like, well, what do you want me to ask him?
What do you want me to ask him?
Oh, you'll figure it out.
So I was working with the Pakistani intelligence service.
And I said, listen, I'm usually the good cop.
Do you want to be the bad cop?
And he's like, yeah, I'll be the bad cop.
So we bring the prisoner out.
We're sitting there looking at him.