Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense:

"Let there be no doubt, the treatment of the detainees in Guantanamo Bay is proper, it’s humane, it’s appropriate and it is fully consistent with international conventions… No detainee has been harmed. No detainee has been mistreated in any way. And the numerous articles, statements, questions, allegations and breathless reports on television are undoubtedly by people who are either uniformed, misinformed or poorly informed."



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January 18, 2002

Personal motto of Green Beret Sergeant 1st Class Nathan Chapman, Killed In Action in Afghanistan:

"Stand up and do something."



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January 11, 2002

Mike DeGuerin, attorney for Vanessa Leggett:

"We live in a day of evaporating personal liberties and one of the most important of those is that we can read from a press that is unregulated by the government."