Joanne Mariner Quotes (8 Quotes)

This might have made the government a bit nervous, and they thought it's time to teach them a lesson and nip this in the bud.

European governments have little interest in revealing these (CIA) activities that are covert.

There are very daunting obstacles to carry out this investigation successfully. They have little interest in revealing these activities that are covert.

It's not a good time. Since early July there's been a real wave of arrests and harassment, and acts of repugnance. Being a dissident in Cuba is an incredibly precarious life.

Hearings on secret CIA detentions and rendition of terrorist suspects should be held in the U.S. Congress as well.

Substantial and credible information has now been published that the U.S. carried out abduction and extraordinary renditions, and enforced disappearances on European soil.

A six-week regime of sleep deprivation, forced exercises, stress positions, white noise, and sexual humiliation amounts to acts that were specifically intended to cause severe physical pain and suffering and severe mental pain and suffering. That's the legal definition of torture.

There is no doubt that the United States held and tortured detainees. The only doubt is whether these detainees were being held on European soil.