John Kiriakou

And this is one of the things that I loved about that job is this constant engagement with foreign diplomats.

Who's doing what?

And what do you think about Israel?

What do you think about China?

What do you think about what's going on in Mexico or Cuba or whatever?

And I get a call from this Japanese diplomat and he invites me to lunch.

I said, great.

We meet at a place on Capitol Hill.

And I remember that lunch very well.

I remember we talked about Israeli elections.

We talked about Turkish elections.

And we talked about the Arab-Israeli peace process.

And at the end of the lunch, he says to me, and I should add, his English was so bad that we had to do the lunch in Arabic.

So he said, what's next for you?

And I said, well, I think I'm going to resign soon.

I promised Senator Kerry I'd give him two years.

It's been two and a half.

I have five kids and I really need to make some money and put my kids through college.

And I said, what the fuck is wrong with you?

You have any idea how many times I've made that pitch?