Category: Publishing

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• The alternative obituaries — The obituaries John Kiriakou writes for CovertAction Magazine whenever someone associated with the CIA's torture program dies — deliberately mean-spirited pieces arguing the world is better off without them — and the phone call he took from one subject's daughter, who called him a monster, and what he said back to her.
• The twenty-two-month clearance — John Kiriakou's figures for getting his first book through CIA prepublication review: nine months to write it, twenty-two months to clear it, and 120 pages rejected. He says everything he writes still goes to the agency for clearance, but that the process has become much easier as his detractors there have died or retired.