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 CIA’s 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 Shetterly’s series Americans Who
Tell the Truth, which features notable truth-tellers throughout
American history. He won the PEN Center USA’s 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
CIA’s War on Terror and The Convenient Terrorist: Abu Zubaydah and
the Weird Wonderland of America’s Secret Wars.
"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
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