Sentence examples for harsh technique from inspiring English sources

Doctors, psychologists and physicians' assistants helped determine how far a harsh technique — waterboarding, prolonged sleep deprivation, shackling in stressful positions — could go without killing or inflicting extreme pain.

Until this month, what the Bush administration called "enhanced" interrogation techniques were "harsh" techniques in the news pages of The Times.

But she said there was also the possibility that harsh techniques were used before they had been approved.

In 2005, he ordered the destruction of tapes that showed the harsh techniques being used, apparently contrary to orders.

In September 2006, for instance, President Bush claimed that the government used "harsh" techniques only after Abu Zubaydah "stopped talking".

"Here you've got some evidence that there was discussion about those harsh techniques in the White House".

According to the New York Times, the use of harsh techniques was approved in his case by the justice department and the CIA.

After the scandal about mistreatment of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq became public in April, all harsh techniques were abruptly suspended, they said.

In effect, they recreated intelligence files, thus avoiding information that might be tainted because it was obtained during interrogations using harsh techniques.

"I think they moved him to the military system to be able to use the harsh techniques blessed in the Yoo memo," said Mr. Hafetz, of the Brennan Center for Justice.

In 2002, during parts of June and July, current and former intelligence officials have said, the C.I.A. suspended the use of harsh techniques against Abu Zubaydah.