Nick Flynn Quotes

The Bush administration will go down in history as the Torture Team.

One might oppose the CIA program, but Abu Ghraib it ain't.

Unlike the Japanese internment, water-boarding was ordered and served up in secret. But it, too, was America's policy, not just Dick Cheney's. Congress was informed about what was happening and raised no objection. The public knew, too.

You give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.

The Lies of George W. Bush

Guantanamo is still open, but it's unlikely that serious torture is going on at Guantanamo. There is just too much inspection.

By 2003, if you didn't understand that the United States was inflicting torture on those deemed enemy combatants, you weren't paying much attention.

Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in the war on terror, critics have complained of human rights abuses.

What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.

Whether or not Americans supported George W. Bush, they could not avoid learning about Abu Ghraib.

Most Latin Americans were dumbfounded by U.S. actions at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. The U.S. government has long scolded Latin American countries for their violations of human rights and their shabby judicial procedures, but it suddenly seemed to be playing by a different set of rules when its own security was at stake.

I have personally led, witnessed, and supervised waterboarding of hundreds of people.

I was much less offended than others were by the CIA's interrogations in the years after September 11.

'Zero Dark Thirty' is a disturbing, fantastically-made movie. It will make you hate torture.

We should go forward in courts and Congress with investigations into post-9/11 interrogations and the decisions leading to them.

What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists.

I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.

Regrettably, it has become clear that torture of detainees in United States custody is not limited to Abu Ghraib or even Iraq. Since Abu Ghraib, there have been increasing reports of torture.

The steep decline in America's image and standing after 9/11 is a direct reflection of global distaste for the instruments of American hard power: the Iraq invasion, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, torture, rendition, Blackwater's killings of Iraqi civilians.

But there have been many news reports that water-boarding has been used on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is one of the major al Qaeda figures that we have in U.S. custody.

There's just no doubt in my mind - under any set of rules - water boarding is torture.

This book here, 'The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder,' in it, I put together a case against George Bush that could result - it absolutely could result in his being prosecuted for first-degree murder in an American courtroom.

The Vice President is not the Vice President of Torture.

There is a cancer problem in the whole body that only surfaced in Guantanamo Bay.

Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately