Doing Time Like A Spy

John Kiriakou

• Publisher: Rare Bird Books
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781945572418
• eBook ISBN: 9781945572746
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

Winner of the 2016 PEN First Amendment Award Winner of the 2016 Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence Winner of the 2016 Blueprint International Whistleblowing Prize for Bravery and Integrity in the Public Interest Winner of the 2013 Peacemaker of the Year Award Winner of the 2012 Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage 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 Spy is 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 Spy is at once a searing journal of daily prison life and an alternately funny and heartbreaking commentary on the federal prison system.

Table of contents

• 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 In-between
• An Open Letter to Edward Snowden
• The Big Challenge, Part I
• The Stress of a Hostile System
• The Big Challenge, Part II
• The Threats Begin
• BOP Breaks a Promise
• Nothing is “Corrected”
• Prison Chapel
• Retaliation
• 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