John Kiriakou

Turned out at the time, my best friend, his wife had an uncle who was OJ Simpson's jury consultant.

And she called him for me and she said, hey, my friend John, he's in this situation.

He's like, yeah, I read about this in the papers.

He could use your help.

He came up, didn't charge me a cent.

He came up to Washington.

We got him a security clearance, which was another thing.

We asked for a security clearance.

And then the Justice Department called and said, the White House said Kiriakou's attorneys have enough security clearances.

And I said, who at the White House said we have enough security clearances?

Well, they had to tell us that it was John Brennan.

No more attorneys for Kiriakou.

Fisher cut bait.

We're like, it's not up to John Brennan to decide if I have enough attorneys.

They have an unlimited number of attorneys, an unlimited budget.

As it turned out, they spent $6 million to put me in prison.

Was society really better off spending $6 million to put me in a low security prison for 23 months?

So in the end, they said, best and final offer, 30 months, you do 23.

Well, I was the only the second American who had ever been charged with this crime of violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982.

The only other person that was charged with it was a woman named Sharon Scranage.