John Kiriakou
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And I said, yeah, I don't care.
And he said, you know that's not a compliment, right?
And I said, Steve, they're wrong about this.
I said, I'm comfortable with the decision that I made.
And I just left it at that.
I didn't realize though how much I had pissed them off until later on.
Yes, and I was the only one I'm almost ashamed to tell you that they asked 14 of us if they wanted if we wanted to be trained in the enhanced interrogation techniques I was the only one who said no
Yes, which is funny for a couple of reasons.
There was no such thing at the time as an interrogation class.
The FBI has deep years long interrogation classes.
We never had to interrogate anybody.
And in fact, when we started capturing prisoners in Pakistan in January of 2002, I'm like, well, what do you want me to ask him?
What do you want me to ask him?
Oh, you'll figure it out.