John Kiriakou

And I kept that up for another couple of years.

I did another tour and then decided, listen, I have five children.

I need to put them through college.

I have to start making some real money.

So I resigned from the CIA, went into the private sector and in the private sector,

And this has changed the course of the rest of my life.

I got a call from Brian Ross, a very prominent journalist with ABC News in the United States, a seven-time Emmy Award winner.

And he said that he had a source who said that I had tortured Abu Zubaydah.

I said, that was absolutely untrue.

I was the only person who was kind to Abu Zubaydah.

And he said, well, you're welcome to come on the show and defend yourself.

I had no idea that was a reporter's trick because I had never spoken to a reporter before.

And so I said, I'd think about it.

Well, that was on a Monday.

On Wednesday, President Bush gave a press conference and one of the reporters there asked him about these rumors that the CIA was torturing prisoners.

And he looked right in the camera and he said, we do not torture prisoners.

And I said to my wife, who was a senior CIA officer, I said, he's a bald-faced liar.

He's looking the American people right in the eye, and he's just lying to us.

Two days later was Friday.

The president leaves the White House from the South Portico, the back door of the White House.