Tom Malin Quotes

They were just reporting the news that had been delivered to them. - Tom Malin

They did me a huge favor. Is our society willing to embrace people who have taken a road to redemption? That's my story. - Tom Malin

They are explicitly saying, for the first time, that the intelligence community should have the ability to treat prisoners inhumanely... You can't tell soldiers that inhumane treatment is always morally wrong if they see with their own eyes that C.I.A. personnel are allowed to engage in it. - Tom Malinowski

There's not just confusion between the U.S. definition and everybody else's definition of torture, there's profound confusion within the U.S. government. - Tom Malinowski

There's a lot of public pressure to retain the language intact. At the same time, there's pressure from the vice president's office to modify it. - Tom Malinowski

The goal should be a resolution down the road. It's not going to be easy to get because of Chinese opposition. But then again people said we would not even get a discussion of Burma in the [U.N.] Security Council and we proved them wrong. - Tom Malinowski

The cellophane is a modern addition to a technique that had its origins in the Spanish Inquisition. - Tom Malinowski

The administration is setting a dangerous example for the world when it claims that spy agencies are above the law. - Tom Malinowski

The administration demanded that soldiers extract information from detainees without telling them what was allowed and what was forbidden. Yet when abuses inevitably followed, the leadership blamed the soldiers in the field instead of taking responsibility. - Tom Malinowski

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