I do think the response was too slow from the administration.

It's really death by incarceration. You're really putting someone to a slow, psychological death, and I think that is really cruel and unusual punishment.

I think that's entirely possible.

I think the only hope that we have, really, of redeeming ourselves here and winning back some of the support that this incident has cost us [is] if we act as an open society that will deal with problems openly, that will hold people accountable.

I think it's critically important for all kinds of reasons that this not be an American occupation,

We intended to start a dialogue. We have been surprised by a lack of administration response.