Jane Mayer Quotes

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• The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some…
• I mean, The New York Times actually had an interesting case recently where they described a detainee who was afraid of the dark, and so…
• Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical…
• Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly if there's anything…
• And to me, it was interesting, some of the people I had interviewed who knew the insides to this program said that they also, to…
• Well, yes, I mean, I think that, you know, my sources suggest that there's a lot of support for the notion that there is a…
• Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.
• What these memos do is they make legal acts that were criminal prior to these memos.
• 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 part…
• The idea is that if we can put our own people through something almost as bad as what they might have to go through if…
• It was our view of the worst that could befall our people if they were taken captive. So, what was fascinating to me was that…
• Nothing predicts future behavior as much as past impunity.
• And, in fact, there is a connection, the people who designed this here program and who implement it are the same people who are overseeing…
• But there have been many news reports that water-boarding has been used on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is one of the major al Qaeda figures…
• And I think that what is of concern is that they seem to be bringing skills from the scientific world into the interrogation room in…
• And the program was developed in large part by behavioral scientists who were working with the military, who do everything they possibly can to measure…
• Now that he has disavowed as outright lies many of the stories he told himself, it's hard to know what to make of those who…
• So, it, of course, makes one wonder how many other people there might be who are completely innocent, who have been sent by the U.S.…
• The world's a small place and people are watching; and, you know, somebody disappears, the family knows and their colleagues know, and so eventually, these…

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