John Kiriakou
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I was facing 45 years in prison.
And then when the Justice Department
made a request for a proffer meeting.
The proffer meeting is, they'll give you a little idea of what they have against you and then they make an offer.
You can take it or leave it.
And they offered me 45 years.
And I said, I'm not doing 45 minutes.
I didn't do anything wrong.
And this woman, she became deputy attorney general for the criminal division under Biden.
She said, take this deal, Mr. Kiriakou, and you may live to meet your grandchildren.
I went home that night and.
I'm ashamed to even say it.
That night we put the kids to bed and my wife and I were watching TV and she said, come on, let's go to bed.
There's no way I'm going to be able to sleep.
And she said, no, come on, let's go to bed.
She knew I was going to go down into the garage, turn the car on and just lay across the backseat.
And she said, no, come on.
You need to try to get some sleep.