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Aldrich Ames

"Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point."

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"Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point."

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Amber Hurdle

"I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side."

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Amber Hurdle

"The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting."

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Amber Hurdle

"You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy."

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Amber Hurdle

"The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person's mask."

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Amber Hurdle

"Are you afraid now?" said Gregor."At times," she admitted. "But it is no worse than if I were in Regalia. You see, I was tired of constant fear, so I made a decision. Everyday when I wake I tell myself it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it."Gregor thought this was the single saddest thing anyone had ever said to him. He couldn't answer."And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day," she said. "Do you see?"

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind."

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Amber Hurdle

"Our shadow is on the outside. And we can see in the dark: we can see you, we see you turn away, but one day we finally understand that you turn away not from our faces but from your own fears. From those things inside you that you think mark you as someone unlovable to your family, and society, and even to God."

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Amber Hurdle

"When Jill woke next morning and found herself in a cave, she thought for one horrid moment that she was back in the Underworld."

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Amber Hurdle

"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear."

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Amber Hurdle

"Fear is proof of a degenerate mind."

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Aldrich Ames
"The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people."

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Aldrich Ames
"I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave."

Name

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Aldrich Ames
"Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low."

Europe

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Aldrich Ames
"I said in court a long time ago that I didn't see that the Soviet Union was significantly helped by the information I gave them, nor that the United States was significantly harmed."

Time

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Aldrich Ames
"When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me, and the realization of what I had done. And it led me then to make the further step, a change of loyalties."

Change

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Aldrich Ames
"The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task."

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Aldrich Ames
"There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results."

Intelligence

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Aldrich Ames
"In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American policy."

Intelligence

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Aldrich Ames
"Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task."

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Aldrich Ames
"Perhaps my information hurt the Soviet Union more than it helped. I have no idea. It was not something I ever discussed with the KGB officers that I was dealing with."

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