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the only way i would be able to write it because i was involved in the story. normally i would have to recuse myself and they agreed to my pitch that there was an unusual story about journalism and how journalists cover national security topics and this was the best way to tell it. essentially it was a story of john kiriakou former cia officer who was a source for me and for any number of national security reporters around washington. after he retired from the cia. and now through a lot of twist and turns, he ended up being the first cia officer to be in prison for leaking classified...

>> part of your story starts with interview in 2007, brian ross of abc. got just a 30 second clip so our viewers can catch up with john kiriakou looks like and kind of a sense what he was talking about. [video clip] at the time i felt that waterboarding was something we needed to do. as time passed and has september 11th has moved farther and farther back into history, i think i changed my mind. i think waterboarding is probably something we shouldn't be in business of doing. >> why do you say that now? >> because we're americans and we're better than that. >> at the time you didn't ...

is about. >> this was a very unusual story. one of them was that the new york times allowed me to write it in the first person which was the only way i would be able to write it because i was involved in the story. normally i would have to recuse myself and they agreed to my pitch that there was an unusual story about journalism and how journalists cover national security topics and this was the best way to tell it. essentially it was a story of john kiriakou former cia officer who was a source for me and for any number of national security reporters around washington. after he retir...