John Kiriakou
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So they come up, I recount the whole lunch and they said, all right, here's what we want you to do.
We want you to call him back, invite him to lunch and then try to get him to tell you exactly what information he wants and how much he's willing to pay for it.
And I said, because I'm a patriot, I said, you want me to wear a wire?
And they said, no, we're going to be at the next table.
We're going to listen to everything.
I said, but he only speaks Arabic.
We got a guy who speaks Arabic.
We go to lunch, do the whole thing.
But before the lunch, right before the lunch, they called and they said, operation came up.
Just write us another memo.
Do the lunch and write us another memo.
They asked me to do it a third time, a fourth time, and a fifth time.