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Douglas Freeman: This is my first torture.
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Corrine Whitman: I'm very sorry for your distress, I wish I could help you with your problem but I simply cannot.
Isabella Fields El-Ibrahimi: My problem? My problem?
Senator Hawkins: [overlapping] Young lady, if you just leave your name and information ...
Isabella Fields El-Ibrahimi: You have my name. You have my home address, you have my phone number, you have everything! You have my husband!
[they look at each other and begin to leave]
Isabella Fields El-Ibrahimi: Please don't walk away from me! Just tell me where he is!
Guard: [restraining her] Ma'am.
Isabella Fields El-Ibrahimi: JUST TELL ME HE'S OKAY!
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Corrine Whitman: Honey, this is nasty business. There are upwards of 7,000 people in central London alive tonight, because of information that we elicited just this way. So maybe you can put your head on your pillow and feel proud for saving one man while 7,000 perish, but I got grandkids in London, so I'm glad I'm doing this job... and you're not.
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Corrine Whitman: Why don't you ask your boss how badly he really does want to stick his neck out for a terrorist.
Alan Smith: Well, he might for due process. Maybe I should have a copy of the Constitution sent to your office.
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Douglas Freeman: In all the years you've been doing this, how often can you say that we've produced truly legitimate intelligence? Once? Twice? Ten times? Give me a statistic; give me a number. Give me a pie chart, I love pie charts. Anything, anything that outweighs the fact that if you torture one person you create ten, a hundred, a thousand new enemies.
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Corrine Whitman: I need a jackal, not an analyst.
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Abasi Fawal: We have a saying, "Beat your woman every morning. If you don't know why, she does."
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Douglas Freeman: [Sending him home] Don't talk to anyone.
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Anwar El-Ibrahimi: Excuse me, sir, there has been some kind of a mistake. Why have my clothes been taken from me? This is crazy. I want my clothes and I want to talk to a lawyer right now.
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