George w Quote by Daniel Silva

The CIA has acknowledged that it has detained about 100 terrorists since 9/11, and about a third of them have been subjected to what…

— John O. Brennan

“citizens, had been targeted as well. Still, the sheer scale of diplomatic surveillance the NSA has practiced is unusual and noteworthy. In addition to…

— Glenn Greenwald

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

The CIA teamed up with Army, Air Force and Naval Intelligence to run one of the most nefarious, classified, enhanced interrogation programs of the…

— Annie Jacobsen

Guantanamo is a chief recruiting tool for al-Qaida. It has put a wedge between the United States and at least some of its allies.

— Eric Holder

...the facility at Guantanamo Bay is necessary to national security.

— Jeff Miller

We aren't using Guantanamo Bay anymore to take additional terrorists. That was the perfect facility to be able to use to extract information from…

— Michele Bachmann

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

If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners…

— Dick Durbin

[Barack Obama] pledged to end torture, but he has continued the CIA renditions where you kidnap people and send them to another country to…

— Nat Hentoff

Second, the facility at Guantanamo Bay is necessary to national security.

— Jeff Miller

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