American government Quote by Jane Mayer

“On August 1, the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel granted the CIA’s request to begin water-boarding Abu Zubaydah. The technique, tantamount to torture,…

— Tim Weiner

“the John M. Olin Foundation in 1953, Olin embarked on a radical new course. He began to fund an ambitious offensive to reorient the…

— Jane Mayer

“only one law school, at the University of California in Los Angeles, turned the Olin funds away, arguing that by plying students with grant…

— Jane Mayer

A lot of powerful people in Washington may think it's a crazy-leftist-fringe position to think the intellectual authors of a torture regime should be…

— John Cusack

“Stellar Wind blew past the Supreme Court on the authority of a dubious opinion sent to the White House the week that the Patriot…

— Tim Weiner

“in 2005, the Olin Foundation had supported eleven separate programs at Harvard, burnishing the foundation’s name and ideas and proving that even the best-endowed…

— Jane Mayer

“the Olin Foundation provided crucial start-up funds for the Federalist Society, a powerful organization for conservative law students founded in 1982.”

— Jane Mayer

Michael Flynn not exactly cut from that cloth. Someone who has very strong views about almost everything in the realm of national security and…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

“Without the rigorous peer-reviewed standards required by prestigious academic publications, the Olin Foundation was able to inject into the mainstream a number of works…

— Jane Mayer

“On December 11, 1996 in a posting on the internet list [email protected], Dr Peter Freyd, husband of the Executive Directory of the False Memory…

— Colin A. Ross

To get some of the substance of why [Michael] Flynn [is Defense Adviser] is so controversial.

— John Heilemann

Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army…

— Arundhati Roy