John Kiriakou

I have so much money, I can't possibly spend it all.

So we all began flying business class all over the world.

There are famous stories of CIA officers throwing sacks of money out of the side of helicopters, which gave rise to a joke at the agency that you can't buy an Afghan warlord, but you can certainly rent one.

And that's what we were doing.

The United States knows that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.

Before 9-11,

Silicon Valley had the highest concentration of millionaires anywhere in America.

But post 9-11, Washington DC has the highest concentration of millionaires anywhere in America.

And it's because Congress

put so many billions upon billions of dollars in counterterrorism and in intelligence, including in literally thousands of federal contractors called Beltway bandits, that everybody got rich.

I am not only not a conspiracy theorist, I'm about as far away from being a conspiracy theorist as a person can be.

But I'm also a realist, and I made the first half of my career at the CIA as an analyst.

And to come to an analytic judgment, you have to look at the evidence.

Well, the evidence surrounding 9-11 says that there is a far greater story there than we have been led to believe.

Yeah, Mike's a great guy.

He was a good officer.

He doesn't really talk about his work a lot.

Maybe it's because a lot of years have passed, but he was the real deal.

I replaced him in Athens, and he had done a lot of preliminary legwork in Athens.

Athens was a tough place.