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“As a general rule, interrogations without clearly defined legal limits are brutal. Particularly when they have an imperative to get information out of a captive immediately.”

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Russia's a small country. It's really poor. It has nothing other than oil and weapons sales.

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The Republicans want an autocracy where the rights of minorities and others are not protected.

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I started my career in Naval Intelligence when I entered as a Russian language interpreter sent to DLI, the Defense Language Institute.

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I have personally led, witnessed, and supervised waterboarding of hundreds of people.

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“However, despite the enormous digital territory and huge number of Internet users, only a few users of what is called the “Surface Web” are…

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Working in the Middle East, daily I face the questions, disbelief, and accusations about how Americans could violate the human rights which they once…

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Vladimir Putin is creating an axis of authoritarian regimes that he will lead.

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The 2003 war in Iraq may be considered the greatest error in American policy since the Civil War. Its ramifications are earth-shattering and will…

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Hamas and Hezbollah operate within geopolitical norms. They can be negotiated and reasoned with. ISIL is a different animal altogether - a religious cult…

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To help students steel themselves for captivity, SERE used a variety of 'stress and duress' techniques. The military's encyclopedic knowledge of these techniques was…

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Yes, ISIL is a terror-based insurgent army that seeks to establish a Caliphate, but the group's actual end goal is far from political: ISIL…

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For an old spy and codebreaker like myself, nothing in the world happens by coincidence.

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