Quotes About Interrogation

I would hate for people to think that 'Strong Island' is just about a family's grief. It is about a family's grief, yes, but it is also an interrogation of our criminal justice system.

I would not restart, under any circumstances, an interrogation program at CIA.

The long, forensic interview really matters.

When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.

There's things you just don't ask, because if you did, the interview would be over very quickly.

all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.

How you doin? how you doin?

So are you the one who killed those cockwombles?" "No.

What do you want?" I asked. No one answered. The van pulled to a quick stop around the corner. The big Asian guy slid in, and the van started up again. He bent down, gazing at me with what looked like mild curiosity. "Why were you at the park?" he asked me. His voice threw me. I had expected something growling or menacing, but his tone was gentle, high-pitched, and creepily childlike.

Continue with what?" Myron interrupted. Rule twenty-six of lawyering: Never let the interrogator—cop or fellow attorney—get a rhythm. "You asked her when she last saw her father. She told you.

Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby-food.

Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby-food. Do it, and you'll often get an answer you don't want, an answer that might wreck your case.

Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby-food.

Never ask a witness a question when you don't already know the answer

A good breeder or experienced rescue agency wants you to prove that you'll be a capable caretaker. The interrogation and screening can be annoying, but it's also a sign that you're on the right track. A breeder ought to know if you work long hours away from home, have a fenced yard, have kids or other animals, or if you have access to parks.

The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the sacred.

Once while we were watching the denouement scene of a David Suchet Poirot episode, he [my husband] said irritably, 'Why do they all just sit there and let Poirot accuse them of stuff? I'd get up and walk out.

Really, Joe? Really? You freaking think so?

I like to push people till I get the truth out of them. Get them drunk, or whatever. Then discover what they really think. Push them and push them and push them.

What I propose, then, is a strategy for interrogating the Darwinists to, as it were, squeeze the truth out of them.

Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.

While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple truth is this: torture has never been an effective interrogation method.

You don't have to be an interrogator at Abu Ghraib to know that time never favors the suspect.

Lean in, invade that foot and a half that is all theirs, their own space. Lean back when you get what you want. It's subliminal. Most of what goes on in a police interrogation has nothing to do with what is said.