John Kiriakou
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Podcast Appearances
They said, come down to the Washington field office Thursday morning at 10.
I go down there the next Thursday and they're waiting for me at the entrance, which I thought was odd.
And we go up to a conference room and they said, we're both cleared SITK gamma.
And then there were two compartments above top secret that I was cleared for that they said they were cleared for.
And so if the if the conversation necessitated it, we could go into that area.
So, they said, well, before we start, just wanted to ask you, just read your book.
Hey, what about this that you said in your book?
And I was like, yeah, okay.
Yeah, it was a cool story.
What about this other thing?
I said, it was kind of hard.
It took me nine months to write the book, 22 months to get it cleared.
Oh, yeah, you got it cleared.
Yeah, of course I got it cleared.
22 months it took me to get it cleared.
I'm thinking, what an odd question.