Jane Mayer Quotes

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• Nothing predicts future behavior as much as past impunity.

  Jane Mayer

  Past, Behavior, Impunity

  "Torture and the Truth" by Jane Mayer, www.newyorker.com. December 22 & 29, 2014.

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• What these memos do is they make legal acts that were criminal prior to these memos.

  Jane Mayer

  Criminals, Memos

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• The idea is that if we can put our own people through something almost as bad as what they might have to go through if they were taken captive, they will inoculate themselves.

  Jane Mayer

  Taken, Ideas, People

  "The Biscuit Torturers of the U.S. Military". www.dailykos.com. July 06, 2005.

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• The fear is that we'll move in the direction from being a democracy to an oligarchy.

  Jane Mayer

  Moving, Democracy, Oligarchy

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If you have an informed electorate, it makes great choices.

  Jane Mayer

  Choices, Electorate, Ifs

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The world's a small place and people are watching; and, you know, somebody disappears, the family knows and their colleagues know, and so eventually, these things do get out.

  Jane Mayer

  People, World, Disappear

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• And to me, it was interesting, some of the people I had interviewed who knew the insides to this program said that they also, to create anxiety and upset in the soldiers, they take Bibles and they trash them.

  Jane Mayer

  People, Interesting, Anxiety

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• We would see another president being accused of being illegitimate, and undermined from day one, which is exactly what these donors did to [Barack] Obama.

  Jane Mayer

  President, Donors, Being Accused

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.

  Jane Mayer

  Administration, Illegal, Torture

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• David and Charles Koch are pretty much as far right as you can get on the ideological spectrum without falling off. They are far right libertarians, very anti-government, very pro-business, very anti-tax, anti-regulatory, in favour of free markets ruling the day.

  Jane Mayer

  Fall, Government, Libertarian

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• But there have been many news reports that water-boarding has been used on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is one of the major al Qaeda figures that we have in U.S. custody.

  Jane Mayer

  Water, News, Custody

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• In fact, Charles Koch tried to get [Mike] Pence to run for the White House in 2012.

  Jane Mayer

  Running, White, House

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• 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.

  Jane Mayer

  Taken, Views, People

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• I mean, the people who run Guantanamo, the military, pretty much dismiss complaints by the detainees because they say that they're all created as part of a political process to sort of fake complaints and get public support.

  Jane Mayer

  Running, Military, Mean

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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 notion that there is a lot of Koran abuse and that it was very much a systematic design, not just an aberration.

  Jane Mayer

  Mean, Thinking, Design

  "The Gitmo Experiment: How Methods Developed by the U.S. Military For Withstanding Torture are Being Used Against Detainees at Guantanamo Bay". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. July 6, 2005.

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• There are some areas where the Kochs are on the same page with [Donald] Trump. He doesn't believe in global warming. He says it's a hoax .

  Jane Mayer

  Believe, Pages, Hoaxes

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly if there's anything coercive or abusive going on.

  Jane Mayer

  Beauty, Thinking, Doctors

  "Psychological Warfare? A Debate on the Role of Mental Health Professionals in Military Interrogations at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and Beyond". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. August 11, 2005.

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• Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science.

  Jane Mayer

  Rights, Use, Records

  "Psychological Warfare? A Debate on the Role of Mental Health Professionals in Military Interrogations at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and Beyond". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. August 11, 2005.

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• I mean, The New York Times actually had an interesting case recently where they described a detainee who was afraid of the dark, and so he was purposely kept very much in the dark.

  Jane Mayer

  New York, Mean, Dark

  "Psychological Warfare? A Debate on the Role of Mental Health Professionals in Military Interrogations at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and Beyond". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. August 11, 2005.

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• [Donald] Trump has put forward a list of people he would like to see on the Supreme Court, whom the Kochs would be very happy with too. So it's not all bad for them.

  Jane Mayer

  People, Would Be, Lists

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about.

  Jane Mayer

  Military, Thinking, Abuse

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• There have been waves of reform in the past. I see no reason why they wouldn't happen again.

  Jane Mayer

  Past, Reform, Reason Why

  "The real threat in the U.S. election". Interview with Jason Markusoff, www.macleans.ca. September 15, 2016.

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• The Kochs have been activists since the 1970s. You can go back and look at the platform of the Libertarian Party in 1980 and see what they really believe in. They wanted to abolish huge swaths of the U.S. government, including the Internal Revenue Service. They want to get rid of Social Security. They'd like to get rid of Medicare. They'd like to abolish the Environmental Protection Agency, which directly affects their business.

  Jane Mayer

  Party, Believe, Agency

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• It's quite amazingly radical, what their [the Kochs] vision of America would be.

  Jane Mayer

  America, Vision, Would Be

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• It's hard for them to run away from their record. The Kochs are businessmen.

  Jane Mayer

  Running, Records, Businessman

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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