John Kiriakou

She was a CIA secretary in Ghana in the 80s.

And she was having an affair with a member of Ghana's intelligence service.

And in the course of pillow talk, she revealed the names of all of the CIA officers in the station and the names of the sources they were running.

And so the Ghanaians executed these guys.

She got nine months in prison.

Nine months.

And they offer me 45 years for blowing the whistle on the torture program.

My wife and I stayed up all night, literally all night.

And because Sharon's Greenwich had taken a plea, there was literally no case law.

So what we found, we found several things.

We found several articles from the Harvard Law Review saying this law is unconstitutional.

It violates the first amendment and it is prior restraint, right?

Like it tells you in advance, you can't say X, Y, and Z.

But because there was no case law, you couldn't challenge it in court.

And I said, well, can't we just appeal the charge and maybe all the way up to the Supreme Court?

And they said, yeah, we can do that post-conviction.

And then you're going to be 45 years waiting and hoping that the Supreme Court does the right thing.

We can't do that.

So –

So I decided by 6 a.m.