Each interrogation runs for several hours.
As the court today acknowledges, since Miranda we have explicitly, and repeatedly, interpreted that decision as having announced, not the circumstances in which custodial interrogation runs afoul of the Fifth or Fourteenth Amendment, but rather only prophylactic rules that go beyond the right against compelled self-incrimination.
Let me explain that this "rough patch" is like a military interrogation, after running a full marathon, wearing barbed-wire.
During Russo's stint in Vietnam, the CIA actually oversaw three separate operations that employed torture: its own interrogation centers, 40 provincial interrogation centers run by Vietnamese with CIA training and supervision, and a training program that schooled 85,000 Vietnamese police in torture techniques, part of a worldwide operation.
His office was once the site of an interrogation center run by Japan's feared military police during World War II.
In Level 1A, the interrogation centre run by the CIA, military intelligence and civilian contractors were looking for information on the insurgency and getting nowhere.
According to Gunaratna and others who talked with Lindh, Reimann's classified cable summarizing the interrogation, which runs to nine pages, is misleading.
Senator John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia, the Democratic chairman of the intelligence committee, said in a statement on Thursday that the existence of a secret, separate interrogation program run by the C.I.A., "however well-intentioned, plays into the hands of our enemies".
A Senate report exposes details about a covert interrogation programme run by the CIA.
Nov. 2, 2005: The Washington Post publishes an article about the existence of a secret, global detention and interrogation program run by the CIA.
