Sentence examples for described the interrogations from inspiring English sources

Feinstein described the interrogations as "ugly, visceral".

In statements to the committee in 2006, Porter Goss, the C.I.A. director who preceded Michael Hayden, described the interrogations as "not a brutality.

For months, two committee staff members reviewed the cables, which described the interrogations of Abu Zubaydah, whom the C.I.A. suspected was a high-ranking Al Qaeda member, and of a detainee named Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri.

Mr. Al Salmi's court-appointed lawyer, Gerald Williams, described the interrogation as a "wrestling match" of miscommunication.

The section describing the interrogations in Poland paints a picture of a "rent-a-dungeon" deal.

However the Senate's report, the result of years of investigation, reportedly stops short of using the word "torture" to describe the interrogation techniques used by the agency.

Without the "Chinese" reference, such "simulated drowning" is the method most often used today to describe the interrogation of three suspected terrorists, about which the C.I.A. director recently testified.

Feb. 11, 2009: The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence meets to formally review a committee staff memo summarizing the CIA cables describing the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah and Nashiri (see Dec. 11, 2007 entry).

Dec. 11, 2007: In a hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, CIA Director Hayden offers to allow a small number of committee staff to review CIA operational cables that describe the interrogation sessions that had been videotaped, given that the video recordings had been destroyed.

But criticism of the legal work in the memos has intensified since last month when the Obama administration disclosed one previously secret opinion from 2002, drafted mainly by Mr. Yoo and signed by Mr. Bybee, and three from 2005, signed by Mr. Bradbury, which for the first time described the coercive interrogation methods in detail.

One of the agents, George M. Crouch Jr., recalled in testimony on Friday that Mr. Hamdan had described the 1998 conversation during interrogations at Guantánamo in 2002.