John Kiriakou

to be humble before the warden, or should I stake my claim?

And I said, warden, with all due respect, I've gone nose to nose with Al Qaeda, with Hezbollah, with the Iranians, and you want me to be afraid of you?

Give me some credit.

He said, yeah, we'll see what you say when you've spent some time in solitary.

I said, I've lived in Yemen, in Pakistan.

I'm not afraid of your Loretto, Pennsylvania solitary.

Besides, I said, go ahead and send me to solitary.

CNN is going to be waiting for you next to your car in the parking lot.

And I just looked at him.

I never went to solitary, not for a minute.

They did it one other time.

My, one of my attorneys know who orchestrated that.

No, I don't think he was smart enough.

I don't think he cared enough.

It had to come from the agency.

There was one other incident too.

Um,

I lived in the same block of cells with an Afghan American pharmacist who had an oxy problem.

Nice guy.

And he came up to me one day and he said, hey, the spokesman for the Taliban is here now and he wants to meet you.