Quotes About Interrogation

El test de Turing, que él llamaba «juego de imitación», es sencillo: un interrogador remite preguntas por escrito a un humano y a una máquina que se encuentran en otra habitación, y trata de determinar a partir de sus respuestas cuál de los dos es el humano.

Post-modernism, which has probably lasted longer than modernism, is the process of interrogating the aesthetic discourse. Disrupting the narrative. Modernism says that things can be right. Post-modernism says that nothing can be right. So if you ever wonder why nothing new ever seems to happen any more, find a post-modernist and beat the shit out of then. Wyndham

Who all is in there? Speak up and be quick about it!' 'A Methodist and a son a bitch!

Most undercover cops are vastly skilled at compartmentalization. It is a talent as valued as lying. They seal off their real feelings and create imitation emotions. Easily torn down when it's time to show the badge, drag someone downtown, and sit across from him in an interrogation cell and tell him how fucked he is now.

What's your name, honey?" Frank asked her. "Beth Riley," she said. She could hear footsteps overhead as the agents stomped around her parents' bedroom upstairs. "What's your real name?" he asked. Her skin prickled. "Beth Riley," she said again.

He had talked to hundreds of witnesses. And he knew that if someone felt pressured, they would try too hard, and their imagination would fill what their memory couldn't recover.

Provoked lies. Parents should not ask questions that are likely to cause defensive lying. Children resent being interrogated by a parent, especially when they suspect that the answers are already known. They hate questions that are traps, questions that force them to choose between an awkward lie and an embarrassing confession. Quentin,

What if we brainstormed for Questions?

Alls I'm saying is cops can lie to you, but you can't lie to the cops. Which is why we often advise people not to say anything.

The point of an interrogation is not to get a confession. A successful interrogation, Duncan once told Eve, is when you walk out of the room with any information, no matter how small, that advances the investigation.

If you ask one question, it will lead you to another, and another. It's like peeling an onion.

If you ask one question, it will lead you to another, and another, and another. It's like peeling an onion.

Questions show an inquisitive mind.

Perhaps hell is like that; a discordant confusion of anxious souls. Some argued, some slept, some shouted, some wept, some wrote, some sketched and many conspired about their coming interrogation. But mostly they did no more than stare into space, eyes unfocused as they tried to see tomorrow.

Mr. Herman, you're wearing glasses. Were you wearing them on the morning of March first?" "Yes, I was." "And what is your vision when you're wearing your glasses?" "Twenty-twenty." "Have you ever been diagnosed with a mental disorder?" "No. Never." "Thank you. That's all I have, Your Honor.

A what, now?

He squinted at me. What are you wearing? Is that some new form of birth control?

Riley had been in the interrogation room for six hours. For most people, this would have been a terrible hardship. Even a few weeks ago, Riley herself would have seen it as a nightmare. Now she just thought it was a nice place to sit down and take a rest. After all, she wasn't climbing down a rope into a dark cavern or getting pushed over a cliff, tied up in a car.

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And if we capture any of these ISIS killers alive, they are going to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and we're going to find out everything they know, because when I'm president, unlike Barack Obama, we will keep this country safe.

I think when you have lawyers arguing over whether you can keep a detainee at 46 degrees... for two hours, that's not torture. It may be unpleasant, it may be coercive... but let's say what torture actually is, and that's not it.

Torture produces unreliable evidence and therefore doesn't achieve and protect anybody. Torture corrupts those who are doing the torturing.

Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people; and behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him.

Don't tell me it doesn't work. Torture works. Okay, folks?