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The scheduling practice John Kiriakou attributes to the FBI — arresting on a Thursday so that a defendant, unable to be arraigned on a Friday, spends four nights in jail before seeing a judge — and the single sentence that he says kept him out of it.
Thursday arrests is John Kiriakou’s characterisation of an FBI scheduling practice, drawn from the day in January 2012 when agents told him they were raiding his house.
The practice
Kiriakou has said that on the day the FBI told him they were going to arrest him, they intended to do so that day, and that the only thing that saved him was his saying that he wanted to speak to his lawyer, and to speak to him right then. [1]
He adds that it was a Thursday, and gives what he believes is the reason: the FBI likes to arrest people on Thursdays, because the courts do not arraign new prisoners on Fridays. A defendant arrested on a Thursday therefore spends Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights in jail. [1]
The purpose he attributes to it
Kiriakou’s account of the intention is blunt: that they hope the defendant has a rough time, perhaps gets beaten up, which softens him and makes him more willing to take a deal. [1]
The context
He has described the same encounter elsewhere: two agents met him at the Washington Field Office, told him they had just finished reading his book and enjoyed it, and then told him they were raiding his house at that moment. He asked to speak to his attorney and was allowed to leave. [1]
Kiriakou places the practice within a wider claim about the asymmetry facing a defendant, noting a federal conviction rate he cites as 98.2 per cent and attributing it to unlimited government resources that no individual can outlast. [2]
Sourced from John Kiriakou's on-record public statements. See his profile for the full body of his interviews, podcast appearances, and short-form video.
