Quotes About Interrogation

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Courts across the country had long approved the use of deception and trickery by police in an interview setting with a suspect, holding that an innocent person would see through the deception and not falsely confess to the crime. The interview

Ask very pointed questions. Sharp as sword blades, or laser blasts, if you catch my meaning.

You really have to act on the force, too. You're involved in a hundred things a day, and you have to react in a hundred different ways, depending on what's going on. And you learn that as you go through your career, how you handle certain situations, interrogations, how you carry yourself. There's a kind of acting to it.

And I think that what is of concern is that they seem to be bringing skills from the scientific world into the interrogation room in a way that begs a lot of questions about whether it's ethical.

I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin, especially when people start questioning me.

My questioner is not the least bit deterred by the insults I've hurled. He is undoubtedly encouraged by the fact that his questions have now firmly found their place under my skin. He is looking at his notes again, at his flowchart of questions and follow-ups, while I try to calm myself.

Perguntava-me por que motivo me contara o segredo, mesmo estando embriagado. Esse motivo seria rapidamente esclarecido. Para salvar a minha vida, apresentara-me como seu assistente na empresa. Caso contrário, como protestante, não poderia esperar mais do que um auto-de-fé. A minha segurança dependia da minha concordância e eu precisava de saber da conspiração, para o caso de ser interrogado sobre ela.

In early July 1944, at the same time as Catherine was arrested in Paris, the hilltop villages of Callian and Montauroux were surrounded by the Germans and searched, house by house, resulting in fifteen members of the Resistance being captured, interrogated and imprisoned.

Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.

I'm sure they're investigating everyone who was in the area.

I've always loved investigations.

vinegar of the interrogator with the oil of a flirt

The first rule in questioning any witness is: Never ask a question if you are not sure what the answer will be. - Brice Mack

Why would you do that?

If Quint—on your remonstrance at the time you speak of—was a base menial, one of the things Miles said to you, I find myself guessing, was that you were another.

Under questioning, a terrorist should be made to yield.

Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.

If the practice is torture for the al Qaeda operative who masterminded the killing of three thousand Americans, why weren't there court-martials in the cases of those thousands of servicemen similarly treated as part of their training?

I wished at that moment that the Wests had killed me, it would have been a merciful release from the hell that DC Smith was putting me through. This barrage of questions by DC Smith and his heavy-handedness into this inquiry and his bullying barrack-room interrogation style of interviewing had left me feeling shamed.

The stories we tell, and the ones we absorb, are what allow us to pluck meaning from the rush of experience. Only through the patient interrogation of these stories can we begin to understand where we are and how we got here.

The shifting sands of the world... show how much the surrealists were drawn towards an interrogation of what reality actually is. Unlike fabulists of whatever hue, there is a materiality in surrealist writing that resolutely keeps it, one might say, 'down to earth'.

Ahora bien, aquello sobre lo que Diotima y Sócrates se interrogan es el ser mismo de este amor, su naturaleza y su origen, aquello que constituye su fuerza y aquello que lo lleva con tal obstinación o con tal locura hacia su objeto: "¿Qué es el amor mismo, cuál es su naturaleza y, por consiguiente, cuáles son sus obras?".26

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