The only person to go to prison over CIA torture is . . . [View all]

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. . . the man who pulled back the curtain on it, CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou; and he's been subjected to illegal retaliation for exercising his First Amendment rights while in prison.

Those who have been following John's story already know the abuses he's suffered while in prison: Officials have conducted surprise searches of his cell, attempted to remove his writing desk and threatened him with 'diesel therapy' {all in an effort to stop his letters to the press concerning his conditions. "diesel therapy is the practice of continually transferring a prisoner from one facility to another, so they're always in a truck, train, or plane and unable to communicate even with family, let alone the press}.

Later this month, the Bureau of Prisons is set to formally decide on how much time he will get in a halfway house, where he can be closer to his friends and family.

But after reporting that the BOP was going back on their deal, FDL's Kevin Gosztola and Jane Hamsher visited him at Loretto and found the bureau was going even further by threatening to reduce John's halfway house time to a mere 86 days in a location far from his family.

The BOP appears to be ramping up the pressure on Kiriakou . . . .

More at http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2014/02/17/imprisoned-cia-whistleblower-threatened-with-diesel-therapy-suffers-shakedowns-for-press-communications/