Abandon Quote by Gary Bauer

In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.

— Gary Bauer

Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing…

— Aldrich Ames

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

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

— Peter Maurer

I am sorry that Mr. Cheney, and every other supporter of enhanced interrogation techniques, has to defend the practices as if they were torture.…

— Bret Stephens

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

If you have never been tortured, or locked up and verbally threatened, you may find it hard to believe that anyone would confess to…

— David K. Shipler

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

And I think that what is of concern is that they seem to be bringing skills from the scientific world into the interrogation room…

— Jane Mayer

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective,…

— Noam Chomsky

I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a…

— Julian Baggini

“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