Human rights groups, however, say forceful interrogation methods are used against hundreds of Palestinians each year.
He described a "forceful interrogation" from Israeli security, which controls access to the West Bank at checkpoints, but added, "I am looking forward to coming another time".
The article's author, Philippe Sands, details how top Bush administration (Cheney and Rumsfeld) are directly connected to the use of forceful interrogation i.e. torture at Guantanamo.
For many years, he said, British authorities subjected members of the Irish Republican Army to forceful interrogations, but, in the end, the government concluded that "detainees aren't valuable".
When he says, with a sly grin, that his charges — halberdiers — are "not all choirboys," it is easy to imagine forceful interrogations being conducted behind closed doors in the basement of St. Peter's Basilica.
Tom Parker, a former officer for M.I.5, the British intelligence agency, who teaches at Yale, argued that, whether or not forceful interrogations yield accurate information from terrorist suspects, a larger problem is that many detainees "have nothing to tell".
At the same time, serialized true-crime programs, such as "Making a Murderer" and the first season of the podcast "Serial," are bringing the failures of due process into focus: careless police work, flawed forensics, forceful interrogations, unreliable witnesses and the woeful condition of state-funded criminal defense.
The cases do not center on allegations of abuse by C.I.A. officers who conducted the forceful interrogations of high-level Qaeda suspects at secret sites, although it is not out of the question that a new investigation would also examine their conduct.
WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday sharply criticized the Obama administration's decision to investigate the abuse of prisoners held by the Central Intelligence Agency as he delivered a forceful defense of the full range of interrogation techniques used by intelligence officers.
But every day, the interrogations became a little more forceful, and very subtlely weapons begin to appear.
Former vice president Richard B. Cheney personally oversaw at least four briefings with senior members of Congress about the controversial interrogation program, part of a secretive and forceful defense he mounted throughout 2005 in an effort to maintain support for the harsh techniques used on detainees.
