Quotes About Interrogation

I have spoken with people at the highest level of intelligence. And I asked them the question, "Does it work? Does torture work?" And the answer was, "Yes, absolutely."

Torture doesn't work.

It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.

Six days into the debriefing, Piro questioned Saddam intensely and repeatedly about the elusive Iraqi chemical and biological arsenal that was President Bush's justification for the American invasion. Where were the weapons of mass destruction? he asked. Did they exist at all? They did not, Saddam said. It had been a long-running bluff, a deception intended to keep the Iranians, the Israelis, and the Americans at bay.

The other day we hauled in a guy named Abu Zubaydah," President Bush said at a Republican fund-raiser in Greenwich, Connecticut, on April 9. "He's one of the top operatives plotting and planning death and destruction on the United States. He's not plotting and planning anymore. He's where he belongs.

The CIA falsely claimed credit for the arrest and wrested back control of the interrogation. Its officers blasted the prisoner with noise, froze him with cold, and buried him in a mock coffin. Soufan and Gaudin protested. The CIA officers told them the techniques had been approved at the highest levels of the American government. Soufan

Army officers demanded "a piece of al-Qahtani" and "told the FBI to step aside" in October. They questioned him for twenty-hour stretches, leashed him and made him perform dog tricks, stripped him naked and paraded him, froze him to the point of hypothermia, wrapped him from the neck up in duct tape, confronted him with snarling dogs, and ordered him to pray to an idol shrine. By

Mueller was embroiled in another ferocious argument over the rule of law and the role of the FBI as the interrogation fight festered. Vice President Cheney had wanted to send the American military to a Muslim enclave in Lackawanna, a dead-end upstate New York town by the Canadian border. The troops were going to seize six suspected al-Qaeda supporters—all of them Americans—charge them as enemy combatants, and send them to Guantánamo forever. The

Notice how often he reframes the question (examines whether the question is the right question) before answering. In several cases, how he dissects wording is as interesting as his answers.

The Nazis and Stalin were the most recent examples, interrogating and torturing innocent citizens until, finally, desperate to mollify their tormentors, the accused denounced their equally innocent neighbors.

Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?

Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.

I didn't have a motive. I didn't to it. You did. What are you writing? Motive - Don't know. What do you mean Don't know ? I tell you I hadn't got one. Put None. You must have one. If you kill people without one, you're mad.

We just have to find out what he's guilty of.

Are you tired? Carol asked calmly. The question seemed not of now but of always.

Never interrogate before you disable your prey. A cornered enemy is a deadly enemy. The

extralimitarse»: una técnica de interrogatorio inventada por los primeros romanos para arrancar confesiones a delincuentes que sospechaban que mentían. El método era de una sencillez engañosa. Exponer la información que uno quiere que se confiese. Después alegar algo peor. El objetivo era darle al oponente la oportunidad de elegir el mal menor, en ese caso la verdad.

Did you mount her? the agent asked, looking over. Langdon glanced up, certain he had misunderstood. I beg your pardon?

It was hell, it was heaven, he was happy, he was scared to death, and he felt as if Satan were right there in this god-for-damned room and he was being butt-fucked by that NVR interrogator again in Muang Sing. Jesus wept, why had they done shit like that to him?

Sometimes, the most effective form of interrogation is to say nothing.

One after another, they were examined. One after another, they proved to have nothing to say--and said it (so far as the women were concerned) at great length...

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

You mean you won't?" he said. "You mean, you won't?" It was very much like it had been in the school house: someone holding

What's the handle, Zock?