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“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

“harsh interrogation techniques.”

— Daniel Byman

I think enhanced interrogation saved lives.

— Mike Pence

“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

“Yet, a recent government report on routine security screenings, written by a panel of experts at the National Academy of Sciences, had stated that…

— Maria Flook

“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

“And no Grand Inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety, and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Lie detectors sometimes work because people believe they work, deterring the wrong people from applying for jobs in the first place, or prompting admissions…

— Bill Dedman

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

“Interrogation...was the highest art of the inquisitor.”

— Jonathan Kirsch

No grand inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.

— William Penn