Clark Hoyt, the Times' public editor, wrote yesterday about its news editors' intricate discussions about whether to refer to waterboarding, slamming people into walls, and shutting them into small boxes as "harsh," "the harshest," or "brutal" interrogation methods; why they decided not to call that torture "without qualification"; and why that makes describing waterboarding tricky.
Conservatives and former George W Bush Administration officials have countered the flood of criticism in part by noting that the report is the product of Senate Democrats who did not interview the CIA officials responsible for designing and implementing the interrogation programme (why those interviews didn't happen is an open question).
Well, maybe, but if you understand the business, perhaps an interrogation of why this new hire has come about, might illustrate that in line with a business's increased focus on emerging markets, it's shifting resource and doing more hiring in that region.
The current pandemic of non-communicable diseases and the increased prevalence of important dysfunctions demand an open interrogation of why current interventions appear insufficient.
Mr. Dixon, one of Mr. Khan's lawyers, said Saturday that the admission that officials had destroyed videotapes of interrogations showed why such an order was needed.
And why interrogation and torture were traditionally carried out in sparsely furnished spaces.
It would also be useful to know whether the students really need to generate their own elaborative interrogation ("how" and "why") questions, versus answering questions provided by others.
The case of Ghailani shows exactly why interrogations must be carried out in accordance with human rights laws.
During Mr. Wildenstein's interrogation Judge Dando asked why "after 38 years the artworks were found in the vault of the institute instead of in possession of the heirs".
I was reminded of that when I read Ms. May's piercing interrogation of Alan Arkin on why there are no bagels on the set of her play "Taller Than a Dwarf" ["Creation, Without Bagels," April 2].
