1995

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I take you now back to the year 1995, when he gave a very young reporter named Rick Sanchez at WSVN in Miami his first jailhouse interview, when he was at that time the only political prisoner in the United States.

SANCHEZ: Did you work for the CIA?

NORIEGA (through translator): I did not work. I wasn’t an employee.

SANCHEZ: Why would the United States want to assassinate you?

NORIEGA (through translator): Bush. Bush. Not the United States, Bush.

SANCHEZ: Is it possible that George Bush wanted Noriega out of the way because Noriega had information that could embarrass him?

NORIEGA (through translator): Embarrassing for him, yes.

SANCHEZ: That brings me to a very interesting question. You have been quoted as saying, “I have the goods on George Bush.”

NORIEGA (through translator): That is a question which has a lot of connotations of incrimination…

(LAUGHTER)

NORIEGA (through translator): … in any response. So, I take my Fifth Amendment.

SANCHEZ: Will we ever know what that information is?

NORIEGA (through translator): Yes.

“Rick’s List.” CNN Transcripts, interview by Rick Sanchez, 27 Apr. 2010, https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/rlst/date/2010-04-27/segment/01