John Kiriakou
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So I come back and I get a call from a kind of a prominent human rights activist.
And he said he wanted to see me, but it had to be private.
So we went to Johns Hopkins University.
There was a classroom that wasn't being used.
We met there and he said, listen, I have a witness who was 12 years old at the time and he was hiding behind a rock and he saw a
what happened when they opened the trucks and the bodies fell out?
And he said, but what's new is he says that there were two men there wearing blue jeans and black t-shirts and they were speaking English.
I said, okay, that's all I need.
So I wrote a letter to the agency and I asked, you know, for clarification, were any CIA personnel on site at the box up or at the location where the trucks were opened?
Um, and I had it auto penned, John Kerry, chairman.
Six weeks later, a colleague comes into my office and he says, Hey, you got a response from the agency to your letter.
I said, I didn't see any response from the agency.
I just checked my mail an hour ago.
And he said, they classified it top secret.
It's down in the vault.
I said, well, what did it say?
And he says, it says, go fuck yourself.