What is really clear is that this is a dead-end policy and they are close to the dead end. Tom Malinowski More Tom Malinowski Quotes 1
There's a lot of public pressure to retain the language intact. At the same time, there's pressure from the vice president's office to modify it. Tom Malinowski More Tom Malinowski Quotes 0
The administration demanded that soldiers extract information from detainees without telling them what was allowed and what was forbidden. Yet when abuses inevitably followed, the leadership blamed the soldiers in the field instead of taking responsibility. Tom Malinowski More Tom Malinowski Quotes 0
It is another positive sign that the administration is willing to be honest and straightforward about the shortcomings of its allies in the Arab world, including Saudi Arabia. Tom Malinowski More Tom Malinowski Quotes 0
The cellophane is a modern addition to a technique that had its origins in the Spanish Inquisition. Tom Malinowski More Tom Malinowski Quotes 0
There's not just confusion between the U.S. definition and everybody else's definition of torture, there's profound confusion within the U.S. government. Tom Malinowski More Tom Malinowski Quotes 0
I am glad the CIA is investigating the cases that they are aware of, but by definition you are not going to be aware of all such cases, when you have a process designed to avoid judicial safeguards. Tom Malinowski More Tom Malinowski Quotes 0
This was somebody who worked very hard to make sure the advice of senior military officials and national security professionals on the question of interrogation policies was ignored, ... The result was an unmitigated disaster for the United States. Tom Malinowski More Tom Malinowski Quotes 0
They are explicitly saying, for the first time, that the intelligence community should have the ability to treat prisoners inhumanely, ... You can't tell soldiers that inhumane treatment is always morally wrong if they see with their own eyes that C.I.A. personnel are allowed to engage in it. Tom Malinowski More Tom Malinowski Quotes 0
It's pathetic that they're still shuttling cash to this dictatorship after it has violated every commitment it made to the United States. Tom Malinowski More Tom Malinowski Quotes 0
This exception contains code language that could give the CIA a green light to treat prisoners inhumanely. If allowed to stand, it will render President Bush 's past pledges about humane treatment meaningless. Tom Malinowski More Tom Malinowski Quotes 0
It is illogical for companies to say they are expanding the boundaries of freedom in China if they strip their product of the very qualities that make it a force for greater freedom. These companies must protect the integrity of the product they are providing, or that product will no longer be the Internet as we know it, and will no longer have the impact on society we all wish to see. Tom Malinowski More Tom Malinowski Quotes 0
And there is no way anyone could, even if the military was twice as conscientious. It is unknowable, unless you assume that every act of abuse is immediately reported up the chain of command. Tom Malinowski More Tom Malinowski Quotes 0