"What these memos do is they make legal……" — Jane Mayer
"What these memos do is they make legal acts that were criminal prior to these memos."
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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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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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It was our view of the worst that could befall our people if they were taken captive. So, what was…
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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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