John Kiriakou
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So I spoke and read Arabic.
And so we're going through the training manual.
And I'm translating it to the guys in my branch as I'm reading it.
Well, everything that was in the manual, these prisoners would do as we would catch them.
So I say, what's your name?
The guy goes, oh, oh.
like he's having a ruptured appendix.
And he's like, pretends to faint and falls off the chair.
And then he just kind of opens one eye to look at you.
I'm like, get the fuck up and get back in the chair.
And then like, do you, do you hit him?
Do you grab him by the shirt and shake?
I mean, I don't know what the rules were.
So there were no rules.
Everybody has something.
It's called the mosaic concept where everybody's got a little tile in his brain.
And if you collect enough tiles, you can put the whole picture together.