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

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

- 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

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

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

- Jane Mayer