John Kiriakou

It was like living in the twilight zone.

The stress will kill you.

It's incredible.

You see people break down all the time.

They just lose it.

And it's not like you're going to be taken out to some medical unit someplace.

You go to solitary and you can live or die down in there.

Yeah.

Oh, so I was telling you.

So I waited about six weeks before I was comfortable enough to write a letter.

So I very arrogantly called it Letter from Loretto because I had such respect for Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail.

And so I said two things in this.

I mean, I talked about the food and I talked about the Italians and...

But I said two things.

I said there was this one guard who was really abusive.

She was absolutely horrible.

You know that phrase, rode hard and put away wet?

That was this woman, all tatted out from the neck down and just a nasty, mean old woman.

Awful, awful person.

So I was walking through the hall one day and she said, hey, are you that motherfucker whose name I can't pronounce at mail call?