John Kiriakou

And he said, I'm begging you, if you have any sources inside Al Qaeda, please help us.

They just sat there and looked at him.

Nothing.

So at the end of the day, I was not working on Al-Qaeda at the time.

I later, weeks later, became the chief of counterintelligence in the Osama Bin Laden unit.

And so I went to his office at the end of the day before I took those guys to dinner.

And I said, Kofor, I got to tell you,

You shocked me with that briefing today.

Was that just for them?

Or were you serious?

He said, oh, I was deadly serious.

Something terrible is going to happen.

And then on September 11th, there it was.

He and I were supposed to go to the White House that morning.

We had a meeting with Condoleezza Rice, who was the National Security Advisor at the time, on an issue that's so stupid now, I'm almost embarrassed to tell you what it is.

It was about a book that was being printed by the government printing office, this minor governmental agency.

called Greece, Turkey, Cyprus.

No, it was called Foreign Affairs of the United States, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, 1949 to 1967.

Literally nobody.

And it's like a thousand pages long.