Quotes About Interrogation

See, Curry, Detective Willis felt I was holding back some information and so he sulked off, like all men do when they don't get their way with women they've fooled around with.

mosquitoing around me, peppering me with pointless questions

My grandfather was a police officer. He taught Dad about lie detectors and police interrogation methods, so Dad got this old World War II lie detector and used it on us regularly. He was obsessed with the truth.

You have to be brave and ask the questions on the tip of your tongue.

Waterboarding should never be used as an interrogation tool. It is beneath our values.

The actions we took in the aftermath of 9/11 were harsh but necessary and effective. These steps were fully sanctioned and carefully followed. The detention and interrogation of top terrorists like Abu Zubaydah, Khalid Sheikh Muhammed and Abu Faraj al-Libbi yielded breakthroughs which have kept this country safe.

Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.

Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy.

Anyone will say anything under torture.

I don't believe that we should limit waterboarding - or, quite frankly, any other alternative torture technique - if it means saving Americans' lives.

Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.

There's been a lot of experience with torture in history. It doesn't work.

Waterboarding isn't torture. We do waterboarding to our own soldiers in the military.

One of the techniques terrorists employ is to allege torture and mistreatment when they are captured, regardless of whether it is true.

I've been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it's torture.

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.

There's just no doubt in my mind - under any set of rules - water boarding is torture.

We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation.

I am sorry that Mr. Cheney, and every other supporter of enhanced interrogation techniques, has to defend the practices as if they were torture. They are not.

If you have never been tortured, or locked up and verbally threatened, you may find it hard to believe that anyone would confess to something he had not done. Intuition holds that the innocent do not make false confessions.

I told the people before they tortured me, please, don't torture me. I didn't do anything. They say, we have to torture you very much. Then when they tortured me, I told them everything they want to hear. I signed confession. That said, the ball was in their court. You know, I very much surrender to my lot.

Who's James Bond?" Zabulon inquired.

his mother yelled out the door, "Ben! Phone! It's Red." He dropped the hose and ran to answer. "Yeah… what's up?" "We got an anonymous call a while ago. It may amount to nothing and it may not. Captain said to give you a call, that you might want in on the interrogation." "Is it worth anything, or is it just his way of trying to get me to come back to work?" "It's a picture of Mona Wakefield. Damned if she isn

How did they find out?" Donnal inquired. "Did you set them on fire?" "You know, it's so rare that I actually do that, and yet that's always the first question anyone asks me." -Senneth