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

Description: Doing Time Like A Spy by John Kiriakou How the CIA Taught me to Survive and Thrive in Prision. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Winner of the 2016 PEN First Amendment AwardWinner of the 2016 Sam Adams Award for Integrity in IntelligenceWinner of the 2016 Blueprint International Whistleblowing Prize for Bravery and Integrity in the Public InterestWinner of the 2013 Peacemaker of the Year AwardWinner of the 2012 Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic CourageOn 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 CIAs use of torture on al Qaeda prisoners.Doing Time Like a Spy is Kiriakous 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. Author Biography John Kiriakou is a former CIA officer, former senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and former counterterrorism consultant for ABC News. He was responsible for the capture in Pakistan in 2002 of Abu Zubaydah, then believed to be the third-ranking official in al Qaeda. In 2007, Kiriakou blew the whistle on the CIAs torture program, telling ABC News that the CIA tortured prisoners, that torture was official U.S. government policy, and that the policy had been approved by then-President George W. Bush. He became the sixth whistleblower indicted by the Obama administration under the Espionage Act - a law designed to punish spies. He served 23 months in prison as a result of the revelation.In 2012, Kiriakou was honored with the Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage, an award given to individuals who "advance truth and justice despite the personal risk it creates," and by the inclusion of his portrait in artist Robert Shetterlys series Americans Who Tell the Truth, which features notable truth-tellers throughout American history. He won the PEN Center USAs prestigious First Amendment Award in 2015, the first Blueprint International Whistleblowing Prize for Bravery and Integrity in the Public Interest in 2016, and the Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence, also in 2016.Kiriakou is the author of The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIAs War on Terror and The Convenient Terrorist: Abu Zubaydah and the Weird Wonderland of Americas Secret Wars. Review "Kiriakou confidently portrays himself as a larger-than-life survivor type, justifiably proud of his stance against CIA-sanctioned torture...An irreverent and unsettling footnote to the war on terror."--Kirkus Reviews "A great memoir offers the-rest-of-the-story appeal, and when the CIA, 9/11, waterboarding, whistleblowing, scapegoating, coverups, and federal prison all factor in, the page turning reaches hyperdrive."--Foreword Reviews "Ex-CIA agent and anti-torture whistleblower Kiriakou wrote this book while serving 30 months for disclosing classified information. Part jailhouse memoir, part tradecraft manual, it shares Agency skills that kept him at the top of the prison pecking order--relevant advice for our new age of executive leaks and consequences."--The Washingtonian "An especially appreciated and uncommon contribution to our national discussion about the value of revealing governmental misconduct despite federal laws prohibiting such exposures, Doing Time Like A Spy deserves as wide an audience and readership as possible."--Midwest Book Review Long Description 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 CIAs use of torture on al Qaeda prisoners. Doing Time Like a Spy is Kiriakous 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. Review Quote "Kiriakou confidently portrays himself as a larger-than-life survivor type, justifiably proud of his stance against CIA-sanctioned torture...An irreverent and unsettling footnote to the war on terror." -- Kirkus Reviews "A great memoir offers the-rest-of-the-story appeal, and when the CIA, 9/11, waterboarding, whistleblowing, scapegoating, coverups, and federal prison all factor in, the page turning reaches hyperdrive." -- Foreword Reviews "Ex-CIA agent and anti-torture whistleblower Kiriakou wrote this book while serving 30 months for disclosing classified information. Part jailhouse memoir, part tradecraft manual, it shares Agency skills that kept him at the top of the prison pecking order--relevant advice for our new age of executive leaks and consequences." -- The Washingtonian "An especially appreciated and uncommon contribution to our national discussion about the value of revealing governmental misconduct despite federal laws prohibiting such exposures, Doing Time Like A Spy deserves as wide an audience and readership as possible." -- Midwest Book Review Details ISBN1947856324 Author John Kiriakou ISBN-10 1947856324 ISBN-13 9781947856325 Format Paperback Short Title Doing Time Like a Spy Pages 304 Language English Subtitle How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison DEWEY B Audience General AU Release Date 2019-02-18 Publisher Rare Bird Books Year 2018 Publication Date 2018-11-13 Imprint Rare Bird Books Place of Publication California Country of Publication United States US Release Date 2018-11-13 Illustrations Illustrations We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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