About this Event
On February 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, John Kiriakou began serving a thirty month Pr*son 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 Pr*son. Using twenty life skills he learned in CIA operational training, he was able to keep himself safe and at the top of the Pr*son social heap. Including his award-winning blog series "Letters from Loretto," Doing Time Like a Spy is at once a searing journal of daily Pr*son life and an alternately funny and heartbreaking commentary on the federal Pr*son system.
John Kiriakou is joining us on the Busboys stage to discuss his 23 months in federal Pr*son, sharing lessons on survival, resilience, and life behind bars after exposing the CIA’s use of torture.
Copies of the book will be available for purchase during and after the event, and Kiriakou will be signing following the program.
This event is free and open to all. Doors open to guests at 5:30pm. Our program begins at 6:00 pm, and will be followed by an audience Q&A. Copies of "Doing Time Like a Spy: How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Pr*son" will be available for purchase before and after the event. Please note that this event is in person.
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John Kiriakou is a former CIA operative and senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. A target of the Obama administration’s war on whistleblowers, he remains the only US official to serve time behind bars after revelations of CIA “enhanced interrogation” practices, despite openly opposing the torture program. He maintains that his case was about exposing torture, not leaking information, adding, he “would do it all over again.” He currently resides in Arlington, Virginia, with his family.
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Busboys and Poets, 450 K Street Northwest, Washington, United States
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