Jane Mayer Quotes

• Well, yes, I mean, I think that, you know, my sources suggest that there’s a lot of support for the notion that there is a lot of Koran abuse and that it was very much a systematic design, not just an aberration.

  Jane Mayer

• Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science.

  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

• The world’s a small place and people are watching; and, you know, somebody disappears, the family knows and their colleagues know, and so eventually, these things do get out.

  Jane Mayer

• The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about.

  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 will inoculate themselves.

  Jane Mayer

• So, it, of course, makes one wonder how many other people there might be who are completely innocent, who have been sent by the U.S. to countries where they’ve been interrogated, and in some instances it seems tortured.

  Jane Mayer

• Now that he has disavowed as outright lies many of the stories he told himself, it’s hard to know what to make of those who still insist that David Brock had it right the first time.

  Jane Mayer

• It was our view of the worst that could befall our people if they were taken captive. So, what was fascinating to me was that somehow it appears the techniques that we have feared most in the world would be used on our people, we are using on people in our custody.

  Jane Mayer

• I mean, the people who run Guantanamo, the military, pretty much dismiss complaints by the detainees because they say that they’re all created as part of a political process to sort of fake complaints and get public support.

  Jane Mayer

• I mean, The New York Times actually had an interesting case recently where they described a detainee who was afraid of the dark, and so he was purposely kept very much in the dark.

  Jane Mayer

• Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly if there’s anything coercive or abusive going on.

  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 have in U.S. custody.

  Jane Mayer

• And, in fact, there is a connection, the people who designed this here program and who implement it are the same people who are overseeing and helping in the interrogations of detainees in places like Guantanamo.

  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 upset in the soldiers, they take Bibles and they trash them.

  Jane Mayer

• And the program was developed in large part by behavioral scientists who were working with the military, who do everything they possibly can to measure a soldier’s stress levels to see how they’re doing physically and emotionally, as they go through this program.

  Jane Mayer

• And I think that what is of concern is that they seem to be bringing skills from the scientific world into the interrogation room in a way that begs a lot of questions about whether it’s ethical.

  Jane Mayer

Jane Mayer (17)

Birth:	1955
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Journalist

About

Jane Meredith Mayer was born in New York City, New York, USA. She is an American investigative journalist who has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1995. She earned a BA degree from Yale University in 1977. She also studied at Oxford University. She joined The Wall Street Journal in 1982. She worked for it for 12 years. She served as a war correspondent and foreign correspondent for the Journal, where she reported on the bombing of the American barracks in Beirut, the Persian Gulf War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the last days of Communism in the former Soviet Union. She was nominated twice by the Journal for the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. She also contributes to the New York Review of Books, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and the American Prospect. She has written several books include: Landslide(with Doyle McManus), Strange Justice(with Jill Abramson, Nominations: National Book Award for Nonfiction), The Dark Side(Awards: New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year, Goldsmith Book Prize for Trade, Ambassador Book Award for Current Affairs), and Dark Money(Nominations: National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction).

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