John Kiriakou

But that's what it's come down to.

The CIA actively seeks to hire people who have sociopathic tendencies, not sociopaths.

Sociopaths have no conscience.

They don't feel guilt or remorse.

They blow right through the polygraph because they don't react to anything.

People who have sociopathic tendencies do have a conscience.

They do feel guilt or remorse, but they're willing to break the law or to work in legal, moral, and ethical gray areas

if they believe it's the right thing to do.

So I mentioned earlier that on multiple occasions, I broke into people's houses or businesses and planted microphones or listening devices.

I was very happy to do that because I believed we were the good guys.

And this was to protect America.

Right.

We've got to disrupt that next attack.

We need to take apart this terrorist group.

And if that means, you know, identifying a terrorist apartment and renting the apartment underneath and drilling a hole through the floor so I can stick a pinhole camera or a microphone and listen to everything that's being said and then report it back to CIA headquarters, I'm going to do it.

That's what a sociopathic tendency is.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, I just assume that it is.

Sure.

And, you know, that's why...