If you want prisoners to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear – never to see them again – you send them to Egypt.

There is a tendency in any conflict, especially in a democracy, to fight the enemy you can, not the enemy you should.

The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.

Destroying Iraq was the greatest strategic blunder this country has made in its history. Unless we change course, there's every reason to believe the Iraq War will end up changing the United States more than it will ever change Iraq.

It seems to me it's always the evil we refuse to see that does us the greatest harm.

I truly believe that if torture had worked and there was a case to be made for it, we would see that on the front pages of the American press.

I take my own experience and other assassinations through history and get a lot into the drone program, which doesn't work, as well.