“Whistleblower John Kiriakou, a former CIA veteran recently released from federal prison for disclosing the agency’s torture program, says the federal government recommended he not work for a Washington think tank on account of his goal of prison reform.”
Whistleblower says US keeping him from think tank work, as he ‘might comment on prison reform’
RT News
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“In 2007, John Kiriakou became the first Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) official to publicly confirm that agency interrogators waterboarded a high-value detainee, terrorism suspect Abu Zubaydah — a revelation that had previously been a closely guarded secret.”
The VICE News Interview: John Kiriakou
Vice News
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“CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou served 23 months in a federal facility in Loretto, Pennsylvania. BOP treated him as a “dangerous” prisoner and placed him under Central Inmate Monitoring after his first “Letter from Loretto” on his first days in prison was published by Firedoglake.
Documents Kiriakou obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, which were actually marked “FOIA Exempt: Do Not Release to Inmate,” warned, “PUBLICITY—Inmate has broad access to the press. Attached are articles in which inmate has been mentioned.”
Barrett Brown, John Kiriakou & the Bureau of Prisons’ Deep Contempt for First Amendment
Firedoglake