John Kiriakou

And the guy said, not really, no, we have to let him go.

And so I grabbed my cell phone and I left, went to the attorney's office.

They had already called my attorney and said they were charging me with espionage.

I hadn't committed espionage.

They knew I hadn't committed espionage.

And in fact, since then, I'm fast forwarding a lot.

Three FBI agents have reached out to me.

Well, two to my attorneys.

One reached out to me directly to apologize, saying that this came from the top.

They thought it was a BS case.

They were sorry they were involved, but there was nothing they could do.

One guy reached out to me through eBay, of all things.

Like to try to cover up the trail.

He's like, listen, I've been losing sleep over this for, excuse me, for the last 13 years.

I just wanted to tell you how sorry I am.

Blah, blah, blah.

It's like, well, I hope you feel better.

My whole life fell apart, but I'm glad you got that off your chest.

So it became a matter of just survival after that.

You have to take it seriously.