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Quotes About Interrogation

During interrogation he committed suicide by swallowing a coat-button of compressed potassium cyanide.
~ Ian Fleming
He suddenly dropped his bantering tone and looked at Bond sharply and venomously.
~ Ian Fleming
The court and jury convened in the mess hall, two decks below the flight deck. A "Grand Inquisitor" interrogated the pollywogs with the help of "scribes" and "kibitzers." The accused were asked preposterous and insulting questions, and no matter how they answered, they were likely to be held in "contempt of court.
~ Ian W. Toll
You know anything about investigative work? Sure. Annoy the people involved until the guilt party tries to make you go away.
~ Ilona Andrews
I wondered if kicking him in the head would make the whole explanation pop out of his mouth in one chunk.
~ Ilona Andrews
Ve haf vays of making you gif us your DNA sample.
~ Ilona Andrews
When in doubt and in need of information, find a snitch and squeeze him.
~ Ilona Andrews
Officers are taught to use all the tricks and lies that courts permit within the scope of the Fifth Amendment's shield against self-incrimination.
~ David K. Shipler
Between November 23, 2002, and January 11, 2003, al-Qahtani was interrogated for 48 days at Guantanamo more or less continuously, kept awake for much of that time by loud music being blasted when he was falling asleep, doused with water and subjected to cold temperatures, kept naked and forced to perform tricks as if he were a dog.
~ Peter Bergen
I couldn't sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash.
~ Mordechai Vanunu
People get all upset about torture, but when you get right down to it, it's really a pretty good way of finding out something a person doesn't want you to know.
~ George Carlin
I think we ought to have a new rule: You can ask two questions, and then we can pick the one we want to answer.
~ Donald Rumsfeld
What did you—" He swallowed. His voice was raspy. "What did you do to him?" "Sightseeing. Your turn." He shivered. "No, that's all right.
~ Steven Gould
Did they scalp you?
~ Steven Gould
blurt out was "Why?
~ Mitch Albom
As a means of extracting information during interrogations, torture is notoriously unreliable, but as a means of terrorizing and controlling populations, nothing is quite as effective.
~ Naomi Klein
In his experience people (hardened criminals apart) who had something to hide and people who had nothing to hide had one thing in common. Faced by a policeman asking questions, they could never remain silent for long.
~ Caroline Graham
Gutterman's face flushed beet-red. Oh, is that so? he snarled. We'll see how impressed you are when we start questioning you. Oh, please don't question us, Ned cried mockingly.
~ Carolyn Keene
Childbirth is nothing compared to exercise, and Gary was a big baby. This is what they should do to prisoners of war when they're trying to interrogate them.
~ Cecelia Ahern
Hour after hour, they shouted at me, accused me, insulted me and members of my family.
~ Sam Sheppard
Hello Clarice...
~ Thomas Harris
They tried sodium amytal on him three years ago trying to find out where he buried a Princeton student," Graham said. "He gave them a recipe for dip.
~ Thomas Harris
Starling looked at Crawford steadily, but she was too still. "Hannibal the Cannibal," she said.
~ Thomas Harris
I inked up Lombard and all his Merry Men, major case prints whether they said they had touched her or not. They're scrubbing their hands and bitching now.
~ Thomas Harris