“There's an intermediate risk of torture, ... It's not just a risk of jail, there's no doubt he'll be jailed.”
David Matas
“While Americans grimace at the mention of the Hitler Influence, there is nowhere to run, no where to hide from our Auschwitz and Dachau–-Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo.”
Bobby W. Miller
“Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“I hate and love - wherefore I cannot tell, but by my tortures know the fact too well”
Catullus
“What we do does not come close to torture,”
Porter Goss
“This is not a case of torture.”
Steven Peterson
“Not only have there been recent cases of prisoners being tortured in detention, but to hold this huge number of people without basic legal safeguards is a gross dereliction of responsibility on the part of both the U.S. and UK forces.”
Kate Allen