Defend Quote by Bret Stephens

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

I was a big supporter of waterboarding. I was a big supporter of the enhanced interrogation techniques ...

— Dick Cheney

I mean the fact is that some of this information that we have found out that led to Usama bin Laden actually came from…

— Rick Santorum

I do support enhanced interrogation techniques. Obviously their value is shining through with respect to the bin Laden killing.

— Tim Pawlenty

Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs.…

— Gary Bauer

Experience shows that the reliance on illegal, immoral, and inhumane interrogation techniques is universally a very poor choice.

— Peter Maurer

Well, the role of our "allies," in my view, is a scandal. 53 other countries cooperated in the kidnapping, "extraordinary rendition," of suspected terrorists…

— Ray McGovern

President Bush will go down in history as the torture president. He has now defied a majority of Congress to allow the use of…

— Jennifer Daskal

“harsh interrogation techniques.”

— Daniel Byman

Before Bin Laden did everything but advertise. Yet he had to blow up the Twin Towers just to get the attention of anyone outside…

— Richard North Patterson

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

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