Title: A Letter from John Kiriakou
Show: Thom Hartmann Program
Date: 2013-05-31
URL: https://youtu.be/oV7Q8HTsQSM
Duration: 11:00

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[00:00] letter from loreto john kerry occu is the only guy who's in prison does george bush and ira and and uh... they didn't bush in gonzalez's and by the j by the who is now a he uh... judge on the ninth circuit court of appeals believe it or not and john you who've mind-boggling lee is a professor of law i believe professor in any case the university of california berkeley you mentioned in class from a guy who like

[00:32] help your country torture people and destroyed the recognition your country i have a real problem with that anyhow and dick cheney and don rumsfeld and and kinda lisa race the is basically about twenty people in the bush administration who put together this whole uh... let's torture people plan let's violate the geneva conventions let's do what they actually the executed white the united states executed japanese soldiers for doing in

[01:03] the philippines let's do what the nuremberg tribunals prosecuted nazis for doing after world war two let's do that ourselves and become pariahs make the muslim world think there were earlier war against them in the one guy who had the the intestinal fortitude to stand up and say no this isn't right i'm gonna go to the press with this and blow the whistle john carrey our group he is in prison anne wrote a letter is amazing letter it's uh... it's reprinted in many places

[01:34] over the web i got my copy from from uh... firedoglake dot com which has a you can actually see the the original and you can print out the tax bill that separate out the tech so i sure would be this is his letter it because they had provides amazing inside a life in prison uses greetings of the federal correctional institute loreto pennsylvania i arrived here at the very twenty eight twenty thirteen to serve a thirty-month sentence for violating the intelligence identities protection act of nineteen eighty two

[02:04] at least that's what the government wants people to believe in truth this is my punishment for blowing the whistle on the c_i_a_'s illegal torture program and for telling the public that torture was official u_s_ government policy but that's a different story purpose this letters to tell you about prison life at my formal sentencing hearing in january the judge the prosecutors in my attorneys all agree that i would serve my son's in laredo as federal work camp when i arrived our rush to my suraj surprise the corrections officer of the ceceo

[02:35] uh... they're also call hacks the ceo who process me said that the bureau of prisons are deemed me a quote threat to the public safety and quote and so i would serve the entire sons in an actual prison rather than at the camp little friendlier place processing took about an hour included fingerprinting um a mug shot by third after f_b_i_ marshals by four th d_n_a_ sample are quite comprehensive strip search as good a pair of betty brown pants to brown shirts to two pairs of underwear two pairs of socks ever achieve symbols by own clothes were box to mail to my wife

[03:08] the ceo christians officer then led me to the steel bonk in central unit in walked away didn't know what to do so i took a nap buysell is more like a cubicle made out of concrete built to hold four men meinhold six most of this whole debate by cell mates include to dominican serving twenty four in twenty years sentences for drugs a mexican surrey fifteen years for drugs a porter recon serving seven-and-a-half years for drug conspiracy and the former auditor of cuyahoga county ohio

[03:38] who's doing a long sentence for corruption there'll be some guys me actually enjoy each other's company the prison populations much like you might expect loretta has six thirteen hundred and sixty nine prisoners and ever call myself an inmate on a prisoner about fifty percent of black thirty percent hispanic twenty percent are white of the white prisoners muster pedophiles with personal stories that would make you sick to your stomach the rest of the white prisoners every here are here for drugs except for a dozen or so grand ponzi schemes of the thirteen hundred and sixty nine prisoners forty have college degrees in

[04:09] six mister masters degrees the g_t_e_ program is robust but when i volunteer to teach a class my counselor shouted denning carry ako up allies you teach an acting class i did i'd ask you to teach in f in class sana janitor in the chapel an inc five dollars and twenty five cents a month they capture chow all is the most difficult experience my first few days were shy set my first day to erin's complete covered in tattoos walked up to be nast at your profile nope i said annual faggot

[04:40] and he had good paper i didn't know what this meant it turned out that i had to get a copy of my formal sentencing documents to prove that i was a child molester i did that and was welcomed by the areas who are really area and spit more accurately self-importance hillbillies the cafeteria is very formally divided there is a table for the whites with good paper a section of the table for the native americans a section of a table for people belonging to a certain italian american stereotypical subculture

[05:10] to take in quotes two tables for the moslems for tables for the pedophiles and all the remaining tables for the blacks and hispanics we don't all he is the same time but he's tables more less reserved as i described violence as an immature problem since i arrived there but maybe a half dozen fights almost always over what television show to watch the choices are pretty much set in stone trainee espy on m_t_v_ v_h_-one b_e_t_ in univision and watch tv since i got your sister worth the trouble otherwise violence is in the problem most of the guys in here of work their way did down to a low security prison from medium or maximum

[05:43] and they don't want to go back and also had some luck in this regard by reputation preceded me anna rumor got started that i was a c_i_a_ get bad the aaron's whispered that i was a moslem hotter to go out to the moslems on the strength of my turbans ever big language skills uh... well time statement of support from louis farrakhan uh... instead the moslems applauded me as a champion of muslim human rights meanwhile the italians have taken a liking me is unpatriotic as they are and i have a visceral dislike of the f_b_i_ which they do as well

[06:16] i have good relations with the blacks because it helps several of them right connotation appeals or letters to judges i don't charge anything for it and hispanics respected because my cell mates who are present a myriad of latin drug gangs have told them that have told them to so far so good you know i think close to a problem pat has been from the c_e_o_ so this is the correction officers by first arrived after about four days i heard an announcement but i was told to dread uh... to react to report to the lieutenant's office immediately very quickly i gave my wife's phone number to a friend asked new caller if for some

[06:47] reason i was sent to the s_ h_ u_ special housing unit olson is the whole uh... or solitary confined i have no name wrong but this coming happens all the time when i got those ads office i was archerd into the office of s_i_s_ the special investigative service this is the prison version of every police departments detective bureau i sought a desk a copy of my book the reluctance spy as well as dvd copies of all the documentaries that billion the ceo showed me a picture of an air of dinos guy aspect

[07:18] i responded that i'd met in a day earlier but our conversation was limited to a nice to meet you well the ceo said this guy is the uncle the times square bomber answering many call the number of pakistan's uh... pakistanis are part of the meeting and was told to kill me i told the c_r_ ceo that i could kill you have my phone is off five four hundred and twenty-five pounds compared to my six one two fifty the c_e_o_ said they were looking to ship them out so i should stay away from him the more i thought about this more this made no sense by one of the uncle of the times square bomber being a low security prison

[07:49] usually in max maximum so i ask my muslim friends to check him out it turns out that he's an iraqi kurds from buffalo new york use the imam of the moscow there which also have to be demoss where the lackawanna seven worship black one seven return for conspiracy could terrorism the f_b_i_ pressured him to testify against his paresh years he refusing got five years for obstruction of justice is to use a religious freedom groups of rallied his defense he had nothing to do with terrorism in the meanwhile the s_i_s_ told him

[08:20] but i had made a call to washington after we had met and uh... i had been instructed to kill a bell we both laughed at the ham handedness by which the s_i_s_ try to get us to attack each other if we had they would it we'd we would have spent the rest of our senses in the s_h_ u_n_ solitary instead were friendly we exchange greetings in arabic and english in we chat illinois they're from a head of the c_e_o_'s is about two weeks after i arrived at get a good deal a male here in prison i answer every letter i get monday through friday prisoners uh... the other and for the u_n_ ceo's office for mail call one

[08:52] seat female c_e_o_ butchers my name every time she says it when she does me and mail call i here go to your account cara cruel karaoke emily other issues one day after mail call it passed in the hall she stopped and so you be an afro whose name i campgrounds i responded curiosity she set up i just call you after its has walked away from those what was a classic isaiah i said they have white trash is more like it and a dollar later for ceos the c_e_o_'s discernible to ourselves trashing all of a worldly possessions in my first shakedown

[09:24] lesson learned ceo st aside subhuman we have to show them respect even when it's not a you're listening to the trial mark munro my hasn't come hardman dot com for audio and video archive there's just a sense of the others including his address so sure within weeks come back from the break about five minutes so i can tell you that uh... because not just had a light this letter so touched and so and it's just that the other guy who by the way if you write a letter he will respond to your

[09:55] quest bonnet within several times is don siegel money and on suman as america's political prisoner you can do you can get don siegel man's information for a free dashing don dot org and i'm pretty sure that they have his address in prison over there out this is john carrey ako he's the guy who outed bushes torture program and now the torturers went to prison nobody from the bush administration went to prison the people who devastated the who destroyed the reputation this country didn't go to prison the people who killed people didn't go to prison

[10:26] the people who caused you know hundreds of people be stocking guantanamo on prosecutable because their confessions were a pix track that under torture so they're meaningless they can be used in court of law and then there may not be true none of those people went to prison but john carrey aqua did a nice is all right our ceo cios more next time if you'd like to drop me a line i can be reached a john kerry oxo seven nine six three seven dash zero eight three p_o_ box one thousand at sea isle around a leora loreto

[10:57] loreto pennsylvania one five nine or zero best regards from really read road job prana slaughter as i said you can find it over at uh... firedoglake wilder there'll be a linked to it uh... tomorrow and in our uh... dances daily stacking you'll get all that information in our newsletter and all the kind of stuff if you want track it down but i'd just thought that i was just absolute that uh...
