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'A perfect storm of ignorance and enthusiasm.' A FORMER CIA OFFICIAL, characterizing the U.S. embrace of brutal interrogation methods like waterboarding

'There is no cloud above my head--there is not even a mist.' JACOB ZUMA, presidential candidate in South Africa, after corruption charges against him were dropped before the April 22 elections

'Searching a backpack is dramatically different than asking a student to take their clothes off.' GRAHAM BOYD, ACLU lawyer, on the Supreme Court case about the 2003 strip-search of Savana Reding, then 13, by school officials looking for prescription ibuprofen

'This is a time bomb for the country.' AFTAB...

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