John Kiriakou

And it had the names of three CIA sources who were still alive.

And we've got this obscure law in the United States that if the government outs a CIA source, we have to offer the source citizenship.

These guys are like 198 and 97 years old.

They're not going to, they don't care.

Nobody's going to read the book anyway.

So we were going to go down there and ask her, just pull those pages out of the book.

You know, nobody's going to miss it.

Nobody's going to read it anyhow.

Just pull the pages out or redact the names or whatever.

But I went up to tell him that the car was ready and the secretary's got a little TV on her desk and the World Trade Center is on fire.

I said, what happened to the World Trade Center?

She said, a plane flew into it.

And I go, because I'm a genius.

I said, you know, that happened once before in 1930.

A bomber flew into the Empire State Building.

But it was like pouring rain and fog.

I said, it's so crystal clear today.

How can you not see that you're flying into the World Trade Center?

And just as I spoke the words, the second plane hit.

And then she turned and she said, did you see that or did I imagine it?