Detainees were not allowed to talk to each other, but we…

Everything a detainee says is classified. Detainees cannot talk to you. They cannot talk to anyone. They cannot challenge, in a meaningful way, their…

— Mohamedou Ould Slahi

The important thing here to understand is that the people that are at Guantanamo are bad people. I mean, these are terrorists for the…

— Dick Cheney

I mean, the people who run Guantanamo, the military, pretty much dismiss complaints by the detainees because they say that they're all created as…

— Jane Mayer

After 9-11, the President had a historic opportunity to unite Americans and the world in common cause. Instead, by exploiting the politics of fear,…

— Joe Biden

Obviously this prison has been controversial ever since the first detainees arrived in Guantanamo more than 14 years ago.

— Audie Cornish

The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world.

— Diane Watson

The Justices are currently considering a case, argued last month, which seeks to extend the writ of habeas corpus to al Qaeda and Taliban…

— John Yoo

With respect to the legal justifications or the policies relating to the treatment of detainees, I was not aware of any issues on that…

— Brett Kavanaugh

The basic gamut of civil and political rights in terms of disappearances, detainees, people who are surrendered, what happened the missing. Any talk about…

— Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu

The Democrats in the Senate adopted a resolution, an amendment, saying that there should be no Guantanamo detainees brought into this country. So, more…

— Anonymous

This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners who…

— Rudolf Hoss

Subjecting prisoners to abuse leads to bad intelligence, because under torture a detainee will tell his interrogator anything to make the pain stop. Second,…

— John McCain

And, in fact, there is a connection, the people who designed this here program and who implement it are the same people who are…

— Jane Mayer

The International Committee of the Red Cross visits roughly half a million detainees in nearly 100 countries each year. It's our job to try…

— Peter Maurer

Torture is and must remain illegal. Warrantless wiretapping is also illegal, as was the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to Qatar without proper notice.

— Joe Sestak