8/15/2006

In an August 2006 White House meeting to discuss the use of secret prisons to detain terror suspects overseas, Secretary of State Condoleezza “Rice gave an impassioned speech. The [9/11] attacks had happened on our watch, she said, so the perpetrators should be tried on our watch. ‘Democracies don’t disappear people,’ she said.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]

 – Peter Baker, Days of Fire, Page 484