#torture

"The more often Americans go to church, the more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists, according to a new survey."

"Using unclassified sources, news reports, and historical records we are attempting to put together as clear a picture as possible of this technique, its history, its legality, and the scope of its use."

"These developments would be disturbing enough, but what they point to is an interruption in this nation's most important public tradition - the movement from recognition of a problem to its attempted resolution."

"As you can see from the Gestapo memo, moreover, the Nazis were adamant that their "enhanced interrogation techniques" would be carefully restricted and controlled, monitored by an elite professional staff, of the kind recommended by Charles Krauthammer,

"But if the public doesn't know what torture is or is not, as defined by the Bush Administration, how can the public make a decision on whether your policy is right or wrong?"

"Matt Lauer went after Bush over his secret prisons and the use of torture on the captured terrorists via The Today Show this morning. He was uncommonly strong and didn’t back down when Bush gave his pet answer."

"When Lester exercised his constitutional right not to sign a consent to search his house, these officers spent the next two hours torturing him."

"This week, unprecedented in history, an elected vice president of the United States of America proposed that Congress legally authorize the torture of foreigners by Americans."

"This is the first time they've said explicitly that the intelligence community should be allowed to treat prisoners inhumanely"

"The incident is reminiscent of the psychological techniques used in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison."

"Washington has, for the first time, acknowledged to the United Nations that prisoners have been tortured at US detention centres in Guantanamo Bay, as well as Afghanistan and Iraq, a UN source said. "

'Government lawyers have insisted, literally, on "no amount of money" going to the Gulf War POWs.'

"Why is a nation consumed with moral values so blind to state-sanctioned immorality?"