Doing Time Like a Spy: How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison

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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. 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