"It was our view of the worst that……" — Jane Mayer
"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 somehow it appears the techniques that we have feared most in the world would be used on our people, we are using on people in our custody."
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19 Quotes by Jane Mayer
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The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually…
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I mean, The New York Times actually had an interesting case recently where they described a detainee who was afraid…
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Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular,…
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Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation…
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And to me, it was interesting, some of the people I had interviewed who knew the insides to this program…
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Well, yes, I mean, I think that, you know, my sources suggest that there's a lot of support for the…
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Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and…
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What these memos do is they make legal acts that were criminal prior to these memos.
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I mean, the people who run Guantanamo, the military, pretty much dismiss complaints by the detainees because they say that…
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The idea is that if we can put our own people through something almost as bad as what they might…
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Nothing predicts future behavior as much as past impunity.
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And, in fact, there is a connection, the people who designed this here program and who implement it are the…
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