Quotes of the week:

 

“As early as Sept. 16, 2001, Vice President Dick Cheney, in his first interview after the 9/11 attacks, said, ‘It’s going to be vital for us to use any means at our disposal, basically, to achieve our objective’… In February 2002, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said, “The reality is, the set of facts that exist today with al-Qaeda and the Taliban were not necessarily the set of facts that were considered when the Geneva Convention was fashioned.” (Amanda Ripley, Redefining Torture, Time Magazine,

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