John Kiriakou

So I said, I said, wait a minute.

I just want to ask you a question.

Did the cops say anything to you about me?

And he said, yeah.

I said, what did they say to you?

And he said, they told me that after we met, you called a number in Washington and they told you to kill me.

And I said, oh, they did, did they?

So I went back to the law library and I looked this up and this was a class D felony.

It was conspiring to commit violence in a federal facility.

It's punishable by up to five years in prison.

So I wrote it in my letter and I sent it to my attorney and I didn't give it a second thought.

I didn't know my attorney was friends with Arianna Huffington, who then put it on Huffington Post with this banner headline, millions of hits.

The next thing I know, Jake Tapper drives to the prison to interview me.

And it's in, I mean, it's everywhere from CNN to Playboy to The Economist and Time Magazine when Time Magazine was a thing.

And NPR is calling the prison to interview me.

And the next thing I know, I'm called to the warden's office.

Well, that's in an off limits part of the facility.

So the warden calls me in.

He's like, I'm going to send you to solitary right now.

And I thought, you know, is now the time to be.