The judge began by ordering the jury and the defendant out of the court while the Parachute Regiment sergeant who had led the questioning at Black Mountain Primary gave evidence about an interrogation course he had undergone at the Intelligence Corps' headquarters at Ashford, Kent.
In addition to the cost of intensive language courses, interrogation school and weapons training, it paid for a background check for my security clearance.
This is based in part on the Israeli system of passenger interrogation, though of course the Israelis screen far fewer passengers than the 1.8 million people a day the T.S.A. puts through its checkpoints.
Intelligence isn't looking so smart, Torture got us nothing, though the CIA did its part: Renditions and enhanced interrogation, Redacted, of course -- don't embarrass the nation.
The crucial question, of course, is whether the interrogations at Camp Delta have produced valuable information — and whether continuing interrogations of the same prisoners, some of whom have been there for two years, can yield useful intelligence.
The other day in Normandy, a Nazi surrendered and, in the course of interrogation by our intelligence officers, pettishly asked what had happened to the little newspaper.
According to General Bergner, in the course of interrogation, Qais al-Khazali said that "senior leadership within the Quds Force knew of and supported planning for the eventual Karbala attack that killed five coalition soldiers".
Next, the cops produced two videos: one apparently showing the uneventful interrogation, and then, of course, the surveillance footage showing Tomaszewski getting medieval on his own ass.
It was, however, one of the first building blocks that officials of George W. Bush's administration used to establish the notoriously lawless policies of that era, including Guantanamo, the CIA's "black sites," and of course "enhanced interrogation techniques". .
"Where enhanced interrogation turns into torture, of course, becomes a grayish line.
