Malcolm Nance

It annoys me right-wing extremism is not equated to Islamic extremism.

— Malcolm Nance

The global jihad movement ideology is a destructive religious cult. It is so un-Islamic that it is virtually anti-Islamic.

— Malcolm Nance

Waterboarding should never be used as an interrogation tool. It is beneath our values.

— Malcolm Nance

I've been involved in air strikes against Syria and operations against Syria numerous times in my career.

— Malcolm Nance

The Republicans want an autocracy where the rights of minorities and others are not protected.

— Malcolm Nance

I have personally led, witnessed, and supervised waterboarding of hundreds of people.

— Malcolm Nance

Russia's a small country. It's really poor. It has nothing other than oil and weapons sales.

— Malcolm Nance

For an old spy and codebreaker like myself, nothing in the world happens by coincidence.

— Malcolm Nance

Al Qaeda is a racially diverse organization that is well aware of its dependence on a labor pool dominated by Arab Muslim…

— Malcolm Nance

Al Qaeda has dominated the battlefield of the soul among the disaffected, disenfranchised, and dissatisfied. It promises action instead of discussion.

— Malcolm Nance

Intelligence officers are a peculiar lot. Whether they are active or retired, their brains are wired for a completely different way of…

— Malcolm Nance

One of the most missed components of the entire insurgency in Iraq was that Syria and Bashar al-Assad facilitated Al Qaeda's operations…

— Malcolm Nance

A militant's profile lies not in his age, race, culture, or education; anyone can join or be adopted by the al Qaeda…

— Malcolm Nance

I started my career in Naval Intelligence when I entered as a Russian language interpreter sent to DLI, the Defense Language Institute.

— Malcolm Nance

Yes, ISIL is a terror-based insurgent army that seeks to establish a Caliphate, but the group's actual end goal is far from…

— Malcolm Nance

Working in the Middle East, daily I face the questions, disbelief, and accusations about how Americans could violate the human rights which…

— Malcolm Nance

I saw the waterboarding device in Cambodia's notorious Tuol Sleng prison in Phnom Penh and did not see another until I was…

— Malcolm Nance

To help students steel themselves for captivity, SERE used a variety of 'stress and duress' techniques. The military's encyclopedic knowledge of these…

— Malcolm Nance

“The Russian spy agency had been ordered to make a bold move, hack the American elections, and engage in political warfare to…

— Malcolm Nance

“One effort that ISIS employs consistently is devoted to maintaining a level of operational security that at least successfully eludes the surveillance…

— Malcolm Nance

The attacks of September 11 were made possible, in part, by the fact that U.S. law enforcement had a bias that 'rich…

— Malcolm Nance

I come from an African-American family that is predominantly Muslim. I have had to covertly operate in parts of the Middle East…

— Malcolm Nance

ISIL is not 'radical Islam.' Hamas, Hezbollah, Fatah, the Muslim Brotherhood - these are radical Islamic groups. They resort to armed struggle…

— Malcolm Nance

I was a part of the planning and attack package intelligence team for the strike against Syria in 1983 - in which…

— Malcolm Nance

“While Dark Web sites elude detection by most search engines, what enables certain ones to distinguish the difference between Deep and Dark…

— Malcolm Nance

“However, despite the enormous digital territory and huge number of Internet users, only a few users of what is called the “Surface…

— Malcolm Nance

“Telegram is a secure, encrypted chat, audio, and file sharing program for mobile phones that quickly became the preferred ISIS communications application.…

— Malcolm Nance

Republicans are so taken by and loyal to Trump that they will believe and do anything he says.

— Malcolm Nance

Vladimir Putin is creating an axis of authoritarian regimes that he will lead.

— Malcolm Nance

Identifying terrorists on the battlefield is relatively simple.

— Malcolm Nance

I know waterboarding is torture because I have been on the giving and receiving end of the practice.

— Malcolm Nance

For years before my Navy enlistment, I had studied the Soviet Union and the KGB's history of political intrigue in preparation for…

— Malcolm Nance

In the media, waterboarding is called 'simulated drowning,' but that's a misnomer. It does not simulate drowning, as the lungs are actually…

— Malcolm Nance

The 2003 war in Iraq may be considered the greatest error in American policy since the Civil War. Its ramifications are earth-shattering…

— Malcolm Nance

SERE is a classified program, but every person informed of it is 'read in' to the details of the program. Even the…

— Malcolm Nance

Hamas and Hezbollah operate within geopolitical norms. They can be negotiated and reasoned with. ISIL is a different animal altogether - a…

— Malcolm Nance

Vladimir Putin understood, from the Communist era when he was a KGB officer, that the Russian propaganda system of targeting Western media…

— Malcolm Nance

Whenever counterterrorism professionals see punditry and media make grand pronunciations on terrorism that defy all demonstrable evidence, an unrepeatable oath is usually…

— Malcolm Nance

As a general rule, interrogations without clearly defined legal limits are brutal. Particularly when they have an imperative to get information out…

— Malcolm Nance

We have already seen ISIS use Donald Trump in their propaganda directly. I mean, I will go so far as to say…

— Malcolm Nance