John Kiriakou
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Have you ever seen what's in the McRib?
I tell you what, I loved those McRibs.
You rush to McDonald's for a McRib, but then when you see what's in it, you're like, oh my God.
In fact, there's an advertisement that you see on the sides of buses around Washington saying that, and the advertisement is to visit the spy museum, that there are between 10,000 and 15,000 foreign intelligence officers in Washington, D.C.
In Washington, D.C.?
More than anywhere else on the planet.
Do you think that's real?
There's a spy on this bus.
Oh, that's what that advertisement says?
It's part of the... Thank you, Edward Snowden.
It's part of the advertising campaign.
Yeah, it's really great.
No, now it's all so crazy sophisticated.
I was just telling somebody the other day,
Um, about, uh, the, the CIA trained cats to wander onto the Soviet embassy compound with collars that had listening devices on them just to see what the Russians were saying when they come out of the embassy.
But that didn't work because you can't train the cats.
So they trained pigeons and they put little listening devices around their pigeon, little pigeon feet, um,
And they would land on the windowsills.