Sentence examples for interrogation measures from inspiring English sources

At the time, the Administration's embrace of interrogation measures normally proscribed by the Army Field Manual remained largely unknown to the public.

Obama cited four Bush administration memos he released last week detailing CIA interrogation measures, saying they "reflected, in my view, us losing our moral bearings".

In recent months, government lawyers said the legal opinions were too broad and were being rewritten to restrict the harshest interrogation measures.

"Fewer than 100 hardened terrorists have gone through the program since it began in 2002," he added, "and, of those, less than a third required any enhanced interrogation measures".

Congress Scraps Bid To Limit Interrogation At the urging of the White House, Congressional leaders scrapped a legislative measure that would have imposed new restrictions on the use of extreme interrogation measures by American intelligence officers, Congressional officials say.

Senior members of the Bush administration who approved the use of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation measures could face prosecution, Barack Obama said today, in a surprise about-turn by the president.

"He had to bridge a very diverse constituency which included Hyde Park and some very tough areas on the South Side," said Richard Devine, the Cook County state's attorney, who at first opposed and then supported Mr. Obama's videotaped interrogations measure.

Given that the interrogation system measures the reflected intensity of light a possible source of error could arise from random variations in the received power resulting from variations in the bend radius at any bends in the fiber connecting the sensor to the interrogation system.

The US administration also signalled its approval of what George Bush euphemistically refers to as "alternative measures" of interrogation with the passage of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 in October, which attempts to grant officials retroactive immunity from prosecution for war crimes.

"The Geneva Conventions absolutely forbids coercive measures in interrogation," said O'Connell.

Mary Ellen O'Connell, a professor at Notre Dame Law School who has written extensively on international law and the use of force, told us in an email that Cheney is "quite wrong in saying the U.S. violated no law in employing coercive measures of interrogation".