Doing Time Like A Spy Quotes

“know your enemy. Understand your enemy’s motivations. Know his friends. Discern his network of support. Don’t act against him unless you know you’ll be successful. Use the rest of these rules to get yourself to that point.”
― John Kiriakou, Doing Time Like A Spy: How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison

“any monolithic bureaucracy will tend toward corruption without proper oversight.”
― John Kiriakou, Doing Time Like A Spy: How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison

“Ibelieve firmly that medical care is the most important challenge any prisoner faces in the American penal system. Indeed, poor medical care has led to riots in higher-security prisons, and in the short time that I was in Loretto four prisoners died of preventable illnesses and incidents. I had only been at Loretto for a week when I had my first exposure to Health Services, which the medical unit has the nerve to call itself.”
― John Kiriakou, Doing Time Like A Spy: How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison

“Ego and flattery are related”
― John Kiriakou, Doing Time Like A Spy: How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison

“In the eyes of history, President Barack Obama’s legacy will be tainted by his 2009 decision that the Justice Department would “look forward, not backward” on torture.”
― John Kiriakou, Doing Time Like A Spy: How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison

“This policy decision smacks of modern-day McCarthyism. Washington has always needed an “ism” to fight against, an idea against which it could rally its citizens like lemmings. First, it was anarchism, then socialism, then communism. Now, it’s terrorism.”
― John Kiriakou, Doing Time Like A Spy: How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison