On February 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, John Kiriakou began serving a thirty month prison sentence. His crime: blowing the whistle on the CIA's use of torture on Al Qaeda prisoners.
Doing Time Like A Spyis Kiriakou's memoir of his twenty-three months in prison. Using twenty life skills he learned in CIA operational training, he was able to keep himself safe and at the top of the prison social heap. Including his award-winning blog series "Letters from Loretto,"Doing Time Like a Spyis at once a searing journal of daily prison life and an alternately funny and heartbreaking commentary on the federal prison system.
Author(s): John Kiriakou
Edition: Hardcover
Publisher: Rare Bird Books, a Vireo Book
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 293
Tags: Autobiography;Central Intelligence Agency;Spies;Whistle blowing;Prisons;Personal Memoirs;Law Enforcement;Politics;Whistleblowing;Torture
Introduction
How Could This Happen?
Day 1: “This Has to be Some Kind
of Mistake”
Welcome to Prison
Rules to Live By
Friends, Enemies, and the Weirdos and Lunatics Inbetween
An Open Letter to Edward Snowden
The Big Challenge, Part I
The Stress of a Hostile System
The Big Challenge, Part II
July 10, 2013
July 24, 2013
The Guardian: Obama’s Abuse of the Espionage Act is
Modern-Day McCarthyism
The Threats Begin
BOP Breaks a Promise
Nothing is “Corrected”
February 10, 2014
Los Angeles Times: I Got 30 Months in Prison. Why
Does Leon Panetta Get a Pass?
Prison Chapel
Retaliation
The Daily Beast: Time to Reopen the Case on CIA
Torture
Prison Sentencing Reform
The Big Challenge, Part III
Marked as Dangerous
Wrong Medication
Roommates, or, The Road to Hell is Paved with Good
Intentions
Prison Health Care, Mental Health, and Suicide
A Day in the Life: Vignettes
The Council of Europe Takes an Interest
Farewell from Loretto
Letter to Loretto
Acknowledgments
