Quotes About Interrogation

A]ny lawyer worth his salt will tell the suspect in no uncertain terms to make no statement to the police under any circumstances.

Down in the cellar the Gestapo were licensed to practice was the Ministry of Justice called 'heightened interrogation'. The rules had been drawn up by civilised men in warm offices and they stipulated the presence of a doctor.

Whitecloak Questioners assume you're guilty before they start, and they have only one sentence for that kind of guilt. They don't care about finding the truth; they think they know that already. All they go after with their hot irons and pincers is a confession. Best you remember some secrets are too dangerous for saying aloud, even when you think you know who hears.

Respond to demands with silence, respond to challenges with questions.

He gave a little chuckle, but his eyes stayed wary and he did another glance around at all the men. His gaze came back to me and he showed me those suspicious cop eyes that said clearly I was full of shit and he didn't believe me. Didn't believe what, you might ask? He was a ten-year-plus veteran police officer; he didn't believe a damn thing that anyone told him.

The trick to surviving an interrogation is patience. Don't offer up anything. Don't explain. Answer the question and only the question that is asked so you don't accidentally put your head in a noose.

What's her name? Claire, what's her name?

Listen, I don't know anything about polygraphs and I don't know how accurate they are, but I know they'll scare the hell out of people.

Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

a good part of the trick to being a first-rate scientist is in asking the right questions or asking them in ways that make it possible to find answers.

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

Abe shook his head, and now the smile was gone altogether. "That's not the reason either. Don't lie to me little girl." I felt my hackles going up. "And don't interrogate me, old man.

He plans to use every low-down technique he knows to loosen up the suspect, everything from good cop/bad cop to a four-pound bag of oranges that damage the internal organs but don't leave a mark upon the skin. Or, failing that, he'll Google him. Sure

I wake up and I see the face of the devil and I ask him, "What time is it?" And he says, How much time do you want?

of thing. "Were you at Cornelia's?" "Ghastly.

God, I don't know! Quit interrogating me, Peter.

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You give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders." ( Larry King Live , May 11, 2009)

Enhanced Interrogation is Dick Cheney changing a word, Dick Cheney comes up with a new word to cover his ass!

They arrested us after breakfast.

They've met a thousand liars and heard a million lies. Yours ain't gonna fly. They won't tell you that you're full of crap—they'll keep you talking, getting you to lie about a bunch of things, making notes in their head while you tell yourself that you're the most persuasive motherfucker on the planet. They want you to walk away thinking you got away with it, or so panicked you screw up in front of them.

With the Inquisition? But what will they accuse us of?' 'The problem isn't what they accuse us of.' Scharley's voice was extremely gloomy. 'The problem is what we confess to.

The vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, even after interrogation, had no further intel value whatsoever.

Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out.