John Kiriakou

He not only spoke on the floor of the Senate, urging the president to pardon me and release me, but he gave a speech on the floor of the Senate saying that the country owed me a debt of gratitude because without my revelations, the American people would not have had any idea what the CIA was doing in their name, the carrying out this abomination.

And, um,

And so I did my 23 months.

I came out.

And I'll tell you one funny thing.

I was on this British show.

The first interview I gave when I got out, the BBC, what's it called?

Crosstalk?

Crossfire?

I forget the name of it.

It's very popular.

Yeah, yeah.

I know the show.

I don't know the name, but I know the show.

And there's one guy who asks the questions.

One guy who asks the questions and he comes out swinging.

So he asked me a couple of very provocative, very mean-spirited questions, and I answered them just like I'm speaking to you now.

And finally, he grew a little frustrated, and he said, you know, you are not showing any contrition at all.

You have not apologized for your crime.

You haven't said anything about having revealed this classified information.