There's not as much big money on the left, but you've got George Soros, who has the Open Society Institute. He's pushing liberal policies.

- Jane Mayer

The idea is that if we can put our own people through something almost as bad as what they might have to go through if they were taken captive, they …

- Jane Mayer

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 h…

- Jane Mayer

The fear is that we'll move in the direction from being a democracy to an oligarchy.

- Jane Mayer

And to me, it was interesting, some of the people I had interviewed who knew the insides to this program said that they also, to create anxiety and u…

- Jane Mayer

Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.

- Jane Mayer

If you have an informed electorate, it makes great choices.

- Jane Mayer

We would see another president being accused of being illegitimate, and undermined from day one, which is exactly what these donors did to [Barack] O…

- Jane Mayer

What these memos do is they make legal acts that were criminal prior to these memos.

- Jane Mayer