From Whiskey Bar
Federal law commands that Al Qaeda and Taliban operatives not be tortured, and the president has ordered that they be treated humanely, but the U.S. is not required to treat captured terrorists as if they were guests at a hotel….
Former Justice Department attorney John Yoo
LA Times op-ed
June 11, 2004
A recent Soviet article quotes from the archives a written note of [Stalin’s] to Yezhov, when the old Bolshevik Beloborodov was giving unsatisfactory testimony: “Can’t this gentleman be made to tell of his dirty deeds? Where is he – in a prison or a hotel?”
Robert Conquest
The Great Terror: A Reassessment
1990