John Kiriakou

Your problem is you think this is about justice and it's not about justice.

It's about mitigating damage.

Take the deal.

And I looked at my wife.

She's just like, what are we going to do?

So I took the deal.

And I got two and a half years in prison, and they made me do every single day of it.

In fact, we went to sentencing, and this was in the Eastern District of Virginia, the espionage court.

And the reason why we didn't go to trial in the end was that the O.J.

Simpson jury consultant said, if we were in any other district in America –

I would say, let's go for it.

We're going to win this thing.

But the Eastern District of Virginia, your entire jury is going to be people from the CIA, from the FBI, from DOD, from intelligence community contractors.

He said, buddy, you don't have a prayer.

Take the deal.

Yeah.

It was bad.

So at sentencing, my attorney said, your honor, we request that Mr. Kiriakou be sent to a minimum security work camp.

She says, any objection from the justice department?

They said, no objection.