John Kiriakou

I think she really wasn't happy in that job.

And then after a year, it was probably time to move on.

It was universally negative.

In my very first briefing, I had only been on the job as an Iraq analyst for six weeks.

My boss said to me, I want you to participate in a group briefing.

You're going to brief the Israelis.

They have a Shin Bet representative and a Mossad representative.

And he said, we don't speak to the Israelis in the building.

They're not permitted in the

Every time they would come to CIA headquarters, they would bring gifts.

And the gifts were always laden with listening devices and batteries.

And, you know, we would X-ray everything and we would tell them, stop trying to bug our conference rooms.

And they would say, oh, OK, OK, you caught us.

OK.

So finally, we said they just can't come in anymore.

So we have a safe house where we meet with the Israelis.

So it was like eight of us.

the senior Iraq analyst, the military analyst, the political analyst, the econ analyst, the oil analyst, everybody's doing their thing.

And because I was the most junior, I went last.

And