John Kiriakou
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I'm going to turn it down.
I believed in my heart.
I hadn't done anything right.
It was a vendetta by John Brennan and Obama, by all accounts.
I had friends, of course, who were still working at the agency and working at the at the CIA or at the White House.
And they said that Obama.
had this Nixonian obsession with national security leaks.
And it's because that came from Brennan.
Obama was a senator for two years.
He didn't have any experience doing anything.
So he did what John Brennan told him to do.
And Brennan said, you got to crack down on these leaks.
They do nothing but embarrass us.
So I decided I'm going to turn it down.
I send an email to my attorneys.
I was paying half of them, five of them.
And then one of them writes back and says, put on a pot of coffee.