The core of the movie is an exhaustive, icy interrogation conducted by a panel of smug male bureaucrats (Beau Bridges as the chief interlocutor is the most obnoxious) to whom she anxiously explains herself in extended flashback sequences.
The meandering interrogation conducted by Danielson, which consumes far too much of the play, left me feeling that some questions are not only better left unanswered, but better left unasked.
Reports indicate that the U.S. military knew about the torture, received transcripts of the interrogations conducted by Yemeni interrogators, and interrogated several detainees themselves.
In the meantime, interrogations conducted by the presiding magistrate, Guido Salvini, and chief prosecutor, Roberto Di Martino, have provided fresh leads.
The fact that psychologists, doctors and other health professionals were involved in the interrogations conducted by the C.I.A. and the Defense Department has been previously reported.
WASHINGTON — Even the most exacting truth commission may have a hard time determining for certain whether brutal interrogations conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency helped keep the country safe.
The two passages in which "Britani" is named suggest that Mr. Mohammed himself was the main source for the accounts, in interrogations conducted by American officials on May 19, Aug. 14 and Aug. 18 of last year.
The Pentagon review was begun in late January after the Central Intelligence Agency acknowledged that it had destroyed its own videotapes of harsh interrogations conducted by C.I.A. officers, an action that is now the subject of criminal and Congressional investigations.
This turn of events also has the welcome consequence of allowing new voices into the novel's otherwise claustrophobic world: there are passages from Jennifer's diary, interrogations conducted by nicely skeptical policemen and, near the end, a couple of psychiatric evaluations that reproduce with surprising precision the odd poetry clinical language can sometimes achieve.
The control principle, they pointed out, would have allowed the CIA rather than the inquiry to decide whether the public should learn how that agency was treating detainees at Bagram and Guantánamo, both before and during interrogations conducted by British intelligence officers.
The girl starts as a witness to an interrogation conducted with the use of torture at which she is stunned by its horrific sights, smells, and sounds.
