John Kiriakou
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You know, there's this old saying that you don't go to jail to make friends.
And I made some lifelong friends in jail.
Mostly named Gambino, Lucchese, Bonanno.
Listen, those guys were so honorable.
I learned so much from those guys in just 23 months.
Lessons I'll carry with me forever.
The Italians were the smallest.
They call them gangs in prison.
The Italians weren't a gang.
I'll use the word gang just for the purpose of this response.
They were the smallest gang in the prison, yet commanded the highest level of respect in prison.
More than the blacks and the Latinos?
The blacks and the Latinos were always at each other's throats.