John Kiriakou

He had to be working on a master's degree.

But anyway, his first assignment was in the Counterintelligence Center, which at the time was being run by James Angleton.

And on his first day, the secretary walked him around and, you know, this is what we do over here and this is what we do over there.

And there was this entire wall of file folders.

And she said, whatever you do, don't look in those folders.

You're not cleared for that.

Well, he said, well, of course, the very first minute that he's left alone, he runs and looks in the folders.

And he said every single one of those folders was on an American citizen.

And the CIA is forbidden by law from spying on Americans.

Oh, hope and change.

And you know the statistic.

The Espionage Act was written in 1917 to combat German saboteurs during the First World War.

Between 1917 and 2009, three Americans were charged with espionage for speaking to the media.

Under Barack Obama, eight people were charged with espionage for speaking to the media.

So he was the enemy of whistleblowers.

Yeah.

Yeah, well, look at the Dasht-e-Layli massacre that I mentioned earlier.

It was part of his campaign to open an investigation of Dasht-e-Layli.

What happened was at Dasht-e-Layli, Afghanistan, on November the 30th and December the 1st, 2001, 2,000 Taliban soldiers gave up en masse, right?

And the Northern Alliance...