John Kiriakou

One of the first calls I received was from John McCain's chief of staff.

And he said, Senator McCain says, welcome home.

And he wants to know what he can do to be helpful.

And I said, oh my God.

I said, tell him.

I said, thank you.

I liked McCain very much from when I was working on Kerry's staff.

Kerry was a little jealous of McCain.

And McCain would go out of his way to shake my hand and say hi Carrie said to me one time Why don't you two get a room or something and I said no I said it's we have this connection over torture I said McCain takes me seriously and I take him seriously and so when I when I spoke to McCain I said these damn Obama people they confiscated my pension and I'm gonna have to work until the day I die.

They drove me into bankruptcy and took my pension and

So he came up with this idea.

It was a great idea to write an amendment.

My attorney wrote this amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2016.

And it said that every American.

convicted of violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act between October 1st and October 31st, 2012, shall hereby have his pension reinstated.

So, of course, I'm the only person in the world that that refers to.

So he said, nobody reads these 1500 page bills.

We're going to slip it in there.

And he said, I'm going to be on the conference committee.

We'll get it taken care of.