Cold Quote by Peter Bergen

“Army officers demanded “a piece of al-Qahtani” and “told the FBI to step aside” in October. They questioned him for twenty-hour stretches, leashed him…

— Tim Weiner

“Fitzgerald and the FBI agents who worked with him in New York all knew that Ali Mohamed was working for al-Qaeda. They decided to…

— Tim Weiner

We got valuable information from debriefing of Al Qaeda detainees, and I don't think it's knowable whether interrogation techniques played a role in that.

— Gina Haspel

“Saddam said he had used the telephone only twice and rarely slept in the same bed two nights running since the first American war…

— Tim Weiner

Mohammed al-Qahtani was not alleged to be a leader of the Sept. 11 plot. He was not trained as a pilot. If he was…

— Bill Dedman

I want Americans to know that Guantánamo​ happened not to monsters, but to men. Innocent men.

— Lakhdar Boumediene

The American incarceration of Sheikh Rahman was a hot-button issue for al Qaeda for many years.

— Peter Bergen

“Al-Zawahiri, the son of an upper middle-class family who had grown up in Al-Maadi, an affluent Cairene suburb, joined the Muslim Brotherhood at the…

— Tarek Osman

Anyway, the [Barack] Obama administration took four years to say they weren't gonna do anything on George W. Bush. There were all kinds of…

— Rush Limbaugh

Bin Laden’s death and the debate over torture

— John McCain

Detainees were not allowed to talk to each other, but we enjoyed looking at each other. The punishment for talking was hanging the detainee…

— Mohamedou Ould Slahi

“In mid-September Soufan talked to an al-Qaeda prisoner named Ramzi Binalshibh, who was chained naked to the floor in a CIA black prison at…

— Tim Weiner