The Dark Side Quotes

“Few would argue against safe-guarding the nation. But in the judgment of at least one of the country's most distinguished presidential scholars, the legal steps taken by the Bush Administration in its war against terrorism were a quantum leap beyond earlier blots on the country's history and traditions: more significant than John Adams' Alien and Sedition Acts, than Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus during the Civil War, than the imprisonment of Americans of Japanese descent during World War II. Collectively, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. argued, the Bush Administration's extralegal counter-terrorism program presented the most dramatic, sustained, and radical challenge to the rule of law in American history.”
― Jane Mayer, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals

“The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. —Justice Louis Brandeis, Olmstead v. United States (1928)”
― Jane Mayer, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals

“it breeds contempt for the law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself … To declare that the government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal—would bring terrible retribution.”
― Jane Mayer, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals