Quotes About Interrogation

They dedicated the whole time until around Nov. 10, 2003 to questioning me about Canada and Sept. 11; they didn't ask me a single question about Germany, where I really had the center of gravity of my life.

A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.

That's my life in there. It would never be possible today to ask as many questions as I did.

The job of the data scientist is to ask the right questions.

Information obtained from detainees at Guantanamo has been described by the CIA as 'the lead information' that enabled the agency to recognize the importance of a courier for Usama bin Laden, a crucial understanding that led to Bin Laden's secret hideout in Pakistan and the U.S. raid that killed him.

i have never pondered over questions that are not questions.

What strange, perplexing, questionable questions!

of us is the Oedipus here? Which the Sphinx? It would seem to be a rendezvous of questions and notes of interrogation. And could it be believed that it at last seems to us as if the problem had never been propounded before, as if we were the first to discern it, get a sight of it, and RISK RAISING it? For there is risk in raising it, perhaps there is no greater risk.

There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.

Answerest thou nothing? Behold how many things they witness against thee.

I have personally led, witnessed, and supervised waterboarding of hundreds of people.

A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is taken by threats and tortures, to oblige him to accuse himself, and by that means corroborate their evidence.

Art thou the King of the Jews?

He placed me in a straight chair against the wall, brought me an ashtray, sat at his desk with his back to the window. He was quick in movement, very still in repose. His bald scalp and watchful eyes made him resemble a lizard waiting for a fly to expose itself.

The thing about pumping people for information is that you wind up telling them more than you want to in the hope of getting them to reveal what you want to know.

She'd love to go over him with a fine-toothed comb. Rummage around in him. Turn him upside down. Empty him out.

A Plan to Eliminate the Female Emigrant Problem in the North-Eastern Seaboard Territories. It outlined the steps necessary for the trapping of fugitive Handmaids en route to Canada, and called for the declaration of a National Emergency, plus a doubling of tracker dogs and a more efficient system of interrogation.

would be terrified that she would be found out. She could be so frightened, perhaps, that she might blurt out a confession. No one was leaning on her. To a burdened conscience, silence and solicitude can be more threatening than interrogation.

She must be found for all that," said he, "and shall, if I have to send out Q." "Q?" "An agent of mine who is a living interrogation point; so we call him Q, which is short for query.

That's why I ask." "What

But why you would want to catch flies, hah? Answer me that, vinegar girl.

laughed at his third "what

Don't ask me any more questions, Keller. I'm just going to lie to you and I'd rather not have the stress of trying to remember what lie I handed you. (Alexion)

Now you know I'm a reporter, so you might as well answer my question truthfully, or I'll just keep asking it until you lose your mind. (Susan)