John Kiriakou

Just simply not true.

The CIA in the last 20 years has written two national intelligence estimates.

Now, this is a sense of the entire intelligence community.

concluding both times that the Iranians did not have a nuclear weapons program.

Besides the fact that Ayatollah Khamenei, the late Ayatollah Khamenei, issued a fatwa, a religious decree in 2003, saying that it was a sin to have a nuclear weapons program and that the government was forbidden from doing so.

There's no evidence that they had a nuclear weapons program, except for what the Israelis have been saying.

And I think the Israelis made it up.

Right.

I got a degree in Middle Eastern studies at George Washington University.

And to tell you the truth, I wasn't ready to go into real life yet.

So I stayed for a master's degree in legislative affairs with a focus being on American foreign policy analysis.

And I was taking a class called the psychology of leadership with Dr. Gerald Post, who was an eminent psychiatrist.

He gave us an assignment, quite a controversial assignment, to shadow our bosses and then to write a psychological profile of our bosses.

I did that, and I worked for a sociopath, and I called him on it.

And so I got my paper back at the end of the week and I got an A and Dr. Post wrote in the margin, please see me after class.

So I went to his office to see him.

He had me close the door.

And then he said, look, I'm not really a professor here.

I'm a CIA officer undercover as a professor here.

I'm looking for people who might fit into the CIA's culture.