John Kiriakou

But most importantly, torture is a crime.

And it is illegal to classify a crime for the purpose of keeping it from the American people.

So no charges.

My wife and I went out to celebrate that night.

We went to dinner.

Three, four weeks later, Barack Obama becomes president and he names John Brennan at first CIA director.

But the liberals went crazy because Brennan was one of the fathers of the torture program.

Everybody seems to forget that now.

And we can get into that if you want.

But he then names Brennan the deputy national security advisor for counterterrorism.

Brennan immediately sends a memo to Eric Holder, the new attorney general, and says, talking about me, charge him with espionage.

And Holder writes back, we got these memos in discovery.

when I went to trial.

Holder writes back and says, my people don't think he committed espionage.

And then Brennan writes back and says, charge him anyway and make him defend himself.

So they charged me with five felonies, three counts of espionage.

They waited until I went bankrupt and then they dropped the espionage charges.

I believe it.

It's hard to swallow.

There's a book by Harvey Silverglate, who's a professor of law at Harvard University.