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To help students steel themselves for captivity, SERE used a variety of 'stress and duress' techniques. The military's encyclopedic knowledge of these techniques was paid for in American blood because it was gleaned from former POWs tortured by totalitarian regimes. One technique, waterboarding, was a historically well-known torture.
- Malcolm Nance
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#Help
#Knowledge
#Steel
#Stress
Yes, ISIL is a terror-based insurgent army that seeks to establish a Caliphate, but the group's actual end goal is far from political: ISIL believes that, through jihad, it will bring about the Day of Judgment. This is not true Islam.
- Malcolm Nance
#Day
#Group
#Political
#True
#Will
I started my career in Naval Intelligence when I entered as a Russian language interpreter sent to DLI, the Defense Language Institute.
- Malcolm Nance
#Career
#Defense
#Intelligence
#Language
I was a part of the planning and attack package intelligence team for the strike against Syria in 1983 - in which we lost a pilot and had another one captured until Jesse Jackson got him out - and numerous other operations against Syria both before the Iraq war and during the insurgency.
- Malcolm Nance
#Intelligence
#Lost
#Pilot
#Planning
#War
Across all U.S. intelligence agencies, there is a lack of cultural respect and a poorly tuned attitude toward foreign peoples and cultures.
- Malcolm Nance
#Attitude
#Intelligence
#Respect
#Tuned
Intelligence officers are a peculiar lot. Whether they are active or retired, their brains are wired for a completely different way of seeing the world around them.
- Malcolm Nance
#Active
#Intelligence
#Seeing
#Way
#World
I saw the waterboarding device in Cambodia's notorious Tuol Sleng prison in Phnom Penh and did not see another until I was strapped down on an identical one at SERE. Waterboarding was administered as a 'stress demonstrator' to show that an enemy could make one say anything. And one does.
- Malcolm Nance
#Enemy
#Prison
#See
#Show
#Stress
It annoys me right-wing extremism is not equated to Islamic extremism.
- Malcolm Nance
#Extremism
#Islamic
#Me
#Right-Wing
Waterboarding should never be used as an interrogation tool. It is beneath our values.
- Malcolm Nance
#Never
#Our
#Should
#Used
#Values
Hamas and Hezbollah operate within geopolitical norms. They can be negotiated and reasoned with. ISIL is a different animal altogether - a religious cult an order of magnitude more extreme than even the most extreme Islamic groups of the past.
- Malcolm Nance
#Animal
#Cult
#More
#Order
#Past
Waterboarding is slow-motion suffocation with enough time to contemplate the inevitability of blackout and expiration. Usually, the person goes into hysterics on the board. For the uninitiated, it is horrifying to watch. If it goes wrong, it can lead straight to terminal hypoxia - meaning, the loss of all oxygen to the cells.
- Malcolm Nance
#Cells
#Loss
#Meaning
#Person
#Time
For an old spy and codebreaker like myself, nothing in the world happens by coincidence.
- Malcolm Nance
#Happens
#Myself
#Nothing
#Old
#World
Al Qaeda has dominated the battlefield of the soul among the disaffected, disenfranchised, and dissatisfied. It promises action instead of discussion.
- Malcolm Nance
#Action
#Discussion
#Promises
#Soul
I know waterboarding is torture because I have been on the giving and receiving end of the practice.
- Malcolm Nance
#End
#Giving
#Know
#Practice
#Torture
The Republicans want an autocracy where the rights of minorities and others are not protected.
- Malcolm Nance
#Minorities
#Others
#Rights
#Want
#Where
Osama bin Laden has managed to replace fear of God and adherence to the Quran with his philosophy of jihad above all else. What's behind that facade is the true philosophical intentions of al Qaeda: the establishment of a new Islamic caliphate that will defeat democracy as the greater of the two political orders.
- Malcolm Nance
#Democracy
#Fear
#God
#Political
#True
ISIL is not 'radical Islam.' Hamas, Hezbollah, Fatah, the Muslim Brotherhood - these are radical Islamic groups. They resort to armed struggle and terrorism to move toward their goals. But they are also deeply political organizations that have internal rules, standards, and codes of conduct.
- Malcolm Nance
#Goals
#Political
#Struggle
#Terrorism
We created NATO. It was a United States invention for the collective security of Europe. It has been a Russian desire since 1947 to break up NATO.
- Malcolm Nance
#Desire
#Europe
#Invention
#Security
#Up
There are no military options for Iran. Attack them, and they will destroy the Gulf States oil industries, rain hundreds of missiles onto Israel, close the Arabian Gulf, and shoot oil prices to $300 per barrel, which could cause our own economic downfall.
- Malcolm Nance
#Oil
#Own
#Rain
#Shoot
#Will
As a general rule, interrogations without clearly defined legal limits are brutal. Particularly when they have an imperative to get information out of a captive immediately.
- Malcolm Nance
#General
#Get
#Information
#Legal
#Limits
For years before my Navy enlistment, I had studied the Soviet Union and the KGB's history of political intrigue in preparation for a career in intelligence.
- Malcolm Nance
#History
#Intelligence
#Navy
#Preparation
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