John Kiriakou
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And we were close a couple of times.
Close where we would bust down the door and there's like an uneaten, like half-eaten sandwich on the counter, a cigarette still burning.
Sometimes we were a day or two behind him, but he knew we were looking and he knew we were close.
And then the question is, what do you want to do with him?
And they told me, hang on to him.
We're going to send out a plane and we'll take it from there.
And I wasn't cleared to know what they were going to do with him.
Just like the guys on the plane weren't cleared to know who it was we had captured and why they were taking this guy where they were taking him.
Yeah, it's all need to know.
In fact, when I got onto the plane, three FBI agents and I picked him up on this gurney and carried him onto the plane.
We had to stand him up and maneuver him onto the plane.
Then we laid him across the luggage rack at the back and tied him down.
And one of the guys on the plane, he was dressed completely in black with a black hood on.
And I said, who are you?
And he lifts up his mask and he's an old boss of mine.
And I said, hey, what are you doing here?
He said, oh, I came to take your prisoner.