Joe Biden — at the time of the events recounted, U.S. Vice President in the first Barack Obama administration — attended John Kerry’s December 2009 Christmas party in Georgetown. John Kiriakou was present, having just begun service as senior investigator on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.[1][2]
The Angelo Sans recognition
Biden’s demeanor at the event — “exactly the opposite of Kerry” — included a feat of recall that Kiriakou specifically notes. “I said, ‘Mr. Vice President, we’ve met a number of times. You probably don’t remember me. I’m from Newcastle, Pennsylvania, and my dad was best friends with Angelo Sans.’ He goes, ‘Angelo Sans from seventh grade?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, you’re best friend from seventh grade.’ He says, ‘I do remember you. We talked about Angelo’s a taxi driver in Las Vegas now.’ I said, ‘That’s right. He is a taxi driver. Great memory.’ I said, ‘That conversation was 15 years ago.’"[2][3]
"I remember you. I don’t like you.”
Biden then turned to the staffer next to Kiriakou and said “I remember you. I don’t like you,” glanced at Kerry, and walked away. Kiriakou’s question to the staffer was answered: “Biden has hated me since I told him in a memo that we should pull out of Afghanistan.”[3][4]