Sentence examples for illegal interrogation from inspiring English sources

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To hear Mr. Gonzales tell it, Mr. Holder was in the wrong — not the lawyers like Mr. Gonzales who tortured the law to justify torture, or the former defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, who approved its use, or the interrogators who actually subjected detainees to waterboarding and other inhumane and illegal interrogation techniques.

The question was whether people injured by illegal interrogation and detention should be allowed their day in court or summarily tossed out.

General Sanchez used that briefing, and the logic of the president's memo on unlawful combatants, to authorize the use of dogs and other illegal interrogation methods.

The horrors at Abu Ghraib were not the result of the Pentagon's decision to authorize abusive and illegal interrogation techniques, which Mr. Cheney endorsed.

Mr. Voulgarakis, 46, who was until February the minister for security, said he been threatened in recent weeks for his suspected role in the illegal interrogation of a group of Pakistanis last year.

Gonzalo Boye, the Madrid lawyer who filed the complaint, said that the six Americans cited had had well-documented roles in approving illegal interrogation techniques, redefining torture and abandoning the definition set by the 1984 Torture Convention.

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He ordered them to be held in secret C.I.A. prisons and subjected to brutal and illegal interrogations.

And it includes participating in or otherwise facilitating the illegal interrogations of a remaining unknown number of torture victims held in Guantánamo Bay and beyond.

Instead, he said, when he took command, he issued an order that his troops not engage in illegal interrogations or executions.

You're mumbling anxious nonsense like, "Surely, it was obvious that Iraq's new democratically poisonous water supplies, freedom-loving house-to-house searches, its sexy, western-style press censorship and friendly, illegal interrogations might not entirely please Iraqis".

For those who point to Obama's changes in policy, such as the executive order closing Gitmo or launching an justice department probe into the CIA's illegal interrogations, the memory of the Bush administration's violence and bullish selfishness, as well as continued military campaigns, explain why many Muslim communities continue to hold a unfavorable opinion of the US.

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