The United States government does not authorise or condone torture of detainees. Torture, and conspiracy to commit torture, are crimes under US law, wherever they may occur in the world.

Well, that's not how I read the statement ... After all, do Iraqis really want to -- any Iraqi, sitting around that table, want to suggest that killing an inno…

These people are making a choice for peace and that means that the time is coming in which this insurgency will have no foothold, in which it will be defeated,…

I think the word of the United States has been as good as gold in its international dealings and its agreements.

Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass murder - just as animals are…

Torture was necessary to maintain slavery. It was integral to slavery. You cannot have slavery without some torture or the threat of torture; and you cannot ha…

The United States doesn't and can't condone torture. And I want to make very clear that that's the view and the policy of the administration, the policy of the…