Okay, folks?" He called waterboarding a "minor form" of interrogation.
A constant element in the dialogue is irony; etymologically, the term derives from a form of interrogation in which the answer is known beforehand by the questioner.
But they say that weighing the issue as a real possible course of action could begin the process of legitimizing a barbaric form of interrogation.
Although one immediate result of the September 11th attacks was the revival of an older, and even more controversial, form of interrogation — torture — the war on terror has also inflamed the desire for a mind-reading machine.
The men with broken feet, Abu Hazim and Abd al-Karim who sustained the injuries whilst trying to escape capture, were also subjected to walling, stress positions and cramped confinement, despite recommendations that their injuries prevented this form of interrogation.
One Taiwanese actress who works on the mainland, Yi Neng Jing, said on her microblog Friday that security officers had asked her to "have tea," a euphemism for undergoing some form of interrogation.
There were no named witnesses to his initial confession, and no solid information about what form of interrogation might have prodded him to talk, although reports had been published, in the Times and elsewhere, suggesting that C.I.A. officers had tortured him.
Mrs. Bachmann said the C.I.A. "has no ability to have any form of interrogation for terrorists," adding that when the so-called underwear bomber was apprehended in a failed bomb plot on an airliner landing in Detroit, "he was given Miranda warnings within 45 minutes".
She said the C.I.A. "has no ability to have any form of interrogation for terrorists," and gave as an example the so-called underwear bomber, who, after he was apprehended for trying to blow up a plane scheduled to land in Detroit, "was given Miranda warnings within 45 minutes".
