MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
It starts:
Greetings from the Federal Correctional Institution at Loretto, Pennsylvania. I arrived here on February 28, 2013 to serve a 30 month sentence for violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982. At least that's what the government wants people to believe. In truth, this is my punishment for blowing the whistle on the CIA's illegal torture program and for telling the public that torture was official US government policy. But that's a different story. The purpose of this letter is to tell you about prison life.
There were no prison sentences or even trials for the actual CIA torturers. No investigation of the Bush administration for starting the war of aggression in Iraq. No criminal inquiry or trials for for fat cat bankers who brought down the world economy, and/or laundered millions or billions in $$ from drug lords (see HSBC), there was not one person held criminally accountable for the Massey coal mine disaster that killed 29 or the BP Deepwater Horizon oil blowout that killed eleven workers.
There was the conviction of John Kiriakou, a multi-lingual former CIA employee who blew the whistle on use of torture. Petition to pardon John Kiriakou. A pardon would truly be 'change we can believe in'.