John Kiriakou
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Shame on you, cold pitching me like that.
And I got up indignantly and I walked out.
And I walked, and I mean directly without stopping, to the office of the Senate security officer.
And I knocked on the door.
I said, hey, I was just pitched by a foreign intelligence officer.
And he goes, was it that damn Russian again?
And I said, no, it was Japanese.
He goes, well, no, sometimes they poke around looking for trade information.
I said, this didn't have anything to do with trade information.
We didn't even get that far.
He said, okay, do me a favor.
He said, I've got a standalone computer here that's not connected to the Internet.
Write it up as a memo, and I'm going to courier it over to the FBI.
So I sat there, and I wrote the whole thing, blow by blow.
The next day he calls me and he says, two FBI agents are gonna come up and talk to you.