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Jane Mayer

"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."

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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."

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Amber Hurdle

"The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience."

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Amber Hurdle

"Staying in an abusive relationship for the fear of public judgment is like allowing to be buried alive to impress a coffin maker."

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Amber Hurdle

"Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it really isn't about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing."

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Amber Hurdle

"He was going to punish me now. He couldn't beat me up with his old man fists, but he could hurt me with his old man words."

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Amber Hurdle

"If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding."

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Amber Hurdle

"Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law."

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Amber Hurdle

"I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals."

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Amber Hurdle

"You couldn't not notice the bruise on the side of her face. Or the hickey under her chin."

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Amber Hurdle

"Abuse may consist of physical maltreatment or language that is belittling, discriminatory..."

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Amber Hurdle

"He said he loved more than any other women he's ever loved and I had a black eye to prove it."

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Jane Mayer
"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."

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Jane Mayer
"So, it, of course, makes one wonder how many other people there might be who are completely innocent, who have been sent by the U.S. to countries where they've been interrogated, and in some instances it seems tortured."

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Jane Mayer
"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."

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Jane Mayer
"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."

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Jane Mayer
"Now that he has disavowed as outright lies many of the stories he told himself, it's hard to know what to make of those who still insist that David Brock had it right the first time."

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Jane Mayer
"And, in fact, there is a connection, the people who designed this here program and who implement it are the same people who are overseeing and helping in the interrogations of detainees in places like Guantanamo."

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Jane Mayer
"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."

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Jane Mayer
"And I think that what is of concern is that they seem to be bringing skills from the scientific world into the interrogation room in a way that begs a lot of questions about whether it's ethical."

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Jane Mayer
"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."

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Jane Mayer
"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."

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