Forgive me for being late.

It was a pure coincidence, among so many other similar coincidences. Please excuse me I am obsessed with identifying patterns. If it weren t for my Syrian passport I probably wouldn t have noticed the recurring pattern a purely coincidental recurring pattern, of course.

Excuse me, Sir, if I made reference to how problematic your interrogations of Syrians are. You see, some of us have experienced the unimaginable during interrogations, so we aren t intimidated by something this polite. Others are so afraid of anyone in uniform that they confess to things they don t even know.