The key to successful interrogation is for the interrogator — even as he controls the situation — to recognize a prisoner's humanity, to understand his culture, background and language.
Intellectual, sophisticated, deeply religious and well trained, they present a perfect challenge for the interrogator.
"That would also provide intelligence for the interrogators to help speed the interrogation and make it more effective".
When a prisoner is blindfolded, it is disorienting, but really it's done for the benefit of the interrogator.
Another of the political provocations is a gruesome and unpleasant torture sequence — conducted by the player — that casts waterboarding and other violent methods as games played for the entertainment of the interrogator.
The recording unit on the OBS can be controlled from the interrogator onboard, for example, starting or stopping recording, leveling the sensor, and checking the recording unit status.
Unfortunately for the interrogators, Mr. Bierfeldt was carrying an audio recorder.
"In order to best inform future medical judgments and recommendations, it is important that every application of the waterboard be thoroughly documented," said medical guidelines prepared for the interrogators in December 2004.
In citing a medieval guide to inquisitors written by the Dominican cleric Nicholas Eymerich, Murphy notes that the manual suggests ruses for the interrogators to use with their quarry, like feigning compassion, providing food and water, pretending to already know the answers being sought.
The sergeant, Georg Andreas Pogany, who said he had been so upset by the sight of a body in Iraq that he could not function, is accused of being derelict for having "willfully failed to perform his job as the interrogator" for a team of Green Berets, according to his charge sheet.
The pay board chairman, Sir Frank Figgures, determined that Robinson should be the interrogator for the inquiry into the miners' pay.
