John Kiriakou

This is to protect the United States.

But not here.

You need a warrant.

And besides, the CIA is forbidden by law from doing anything operationally inside the United States.

That's what the FBI is for.

I just never understood this.

Like, why isn't it that clear to everybody?

I don't know.

You know, it was my experience when I was working with the FBI and I worked with the FBI for years and years that they really were sticklers for the law where the CIA wasn't.

I remember even saying one time, I'm going to fudge the details here for obvious reasons, but

We were talking, a couple of us CIA people were talking to a group from the FBI and they were saying what difficulty they were having infiltrating a domestic terrorist group.

And I said, oh, no, I got you covered.

I said there was this group that we took care of.

We just didn't have access to them.

So what we did is we found one of them.

It was only like six members of this terrorist group.

We found one and we said, hey, listen, Mohammed, your friend Abdullah, I'm from the CIA.

And Abdullah told me that that you'd be a good guy for me to talk to because Abdullah works for me.

And he said, you'd like to work for me, too.

Well, the guy runs screaming from the room, but he goes back and he kills Abdullah.