”Prison Of Pedophiles＂ - CIA's John Kiriakou LOCKED UP For Blowing The Whistle On Torture Program
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Summary
Former CIA contractor John Kiriakou talks about his time in prison, and why he thought he was going to be released early. He also talks about how he ended up in a prison with pedophiles, mafia kingpins, and other criminals.
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I was at the Federal Correctional Institution at Loretto, Pennsylvania.
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At my sentencing, my attorneys asked the judge to put me in a minimum security work camp.
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There's a university in the town, the little village nearby,
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The judge says to the prosecutors, any objection?
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Well, the strange thing in our system is if you're sentenced to prison
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and you're free until the date of your incarceration,
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you physically drive to the prison and knock on the door and say,
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So I got up that morning and a couple of my lawyers, my cousin and his son,
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a documentary film crew, we drive to the prison and I go to the camp,
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minimum security camp, and I knock on the door and I said,
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They said, oh, you have to go across the street to the actual prison.
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They'll process you and then they'll just bring you back over here.
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So I go across the street to the prison and I said, I'm here to turn myself in.
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And then he starts to lead me around to the back of the actual prison.
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I'm supposed to be at the camp across the street.
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And he goes, not according to my paperwork, you're not.
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They'll put you in solitary if you say anything.
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And then they put me in a cell, like an actual cell.
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It was a four man cell, but they squeezed six guys in there because of overcrowding.
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It took me four or five days before I got access to a phone.
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I called my lawyer and I said, hey, they put me in the actual prison with the mafia kingpins
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and the Mexican drug cartel guys and the pedophiles.
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He said, well, we can make a motion, but it'll be two years before we have a court date.
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And I told myself, you've lived in far worse places than this.
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She was fired from the CIA on the day of my arrest just because she was married to me.
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And is that common etiquette because married or worried you're going to get?
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Well, because Jonah Mendes and Tony Mendes were in it together and they were married for 28 years or something like that.
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The CIA encourages agency romances because you're both cleared so you can talk about work.
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We used to have this joke at the agency that we-
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We had this joke at the CIA that when you go into a meeting, don't touch the conference room table because you don't know who was having sex on it last night.
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I worked for a deputy director of the CIA who had been married three times and all three of his wives had been his secretary.
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So, and are they banging each other and like dropping intel?
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And then they'll ask you about that on the polygraph.
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Any famous people you were in there that we would know about?
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So I was with the Italians the whole time I was there.
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Did they treat you as a, were they afraid of you?
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And then he saw in the New York Times an article saying that I was coming to that prison.
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On his own volition, he went to every one of the Italians to explain to them, this CIA guy
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And so when I arrived, they had been told, I hate the FBI as much as they do.
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CIA, FBI, DOD, torture, secret prisons, international renditions.
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