Anxiety Quote by Aldrich Ames

I have never worked on interrogation; I have never seen an interrogation, and I have only a passing knowledge of the literature on interrogation.…

— Martin Seligman

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

— Malcolm Nance

While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple truth is this: torture has never been an…

— Jerrold Nadler

It is not an opinion that "enhanced interrogation techniques" are torture. It is a legal fact. And it is also a legal fact that…

— Andrew Sullivan

“judges, for many years, have given police officers encouragement and incentives to engage in all sorts of extraordinary deception when they are interviewing criminal…

— James Duane

Convictions following the admission into evidence of confessions which are involuntary, i.e., the product of coercion, either physical or psychological, cannot stand. This is…

— Felix Frankfurter

“Anyone even remotely suspect was interrogated, because interrogation is by far the most effective method of speedily banishing inappropriate thoughts from the mind.”

— Olli Jalonen

It's convenient how everyone who supports waterboarding and torture, or "enhanced interrogation techniques" as they like to call it, have never experienced it themselves.…

— Jesse Ventura

The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual truth of…

— Andrew Sullivan

“the inquisitors of yesteryear knew only too well, as do the country snatchers of today: torture is useless for protecting people. It is only…

— Eduardo Galeano

The abhorrence of society to the use of involuntary confessions does not turn alone on their inherent untrustworthiness. It also turns on the deep-rooted…

— Earl Warren

We got valuable information from debriefing of Al Qaeda detainees, and I don't think it's knowable whether interrogation techniques played a role in that.

— Gina Haspel