Compared to real "enhanced interrogation," what happens in the film smacks of campus fraternity hazing.
Besides submitting to interrogation, what else can the candidates do to regain our trust?
But this response does not bear much interrogation; what I find unwatchable the man beside me may find hilarious.
They subjected him to approximately 40 minutes of harsh and repetitive interrogation ("What's your name?" "Where do you live?" "Where are you headed?" and so on) for no evident reason.
Along with the outing of the International Red Cross report, which clearly and unequivocally called "enhanced interrogation" what it is--torture, the Post piece and Dan Froomkin's accompanying blog post make the case a slam dunk that our previous administration committed war crimes.
I guess we fucking do, because this week Jennifer Rubin, in a Bush-praising WashingthatPost piece that's awful even by her rock-bottom standards, excused "the dreaded enhanced interrogation" (what a fucking weasel-word term) on the grounds that it "contributed to our locating and assassinating Osama bin Laden," while simultaneously praising Bush's "clear moral compass".
By then he had been rumbled, and, over long years of interrogations, made what seems to have been only a limited confession.
Those facts are not yet out to the senator's satisfaction, and his furor was on full display on Friday as he questioned Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, repeatedly cutting Mr. Rumsfeld off when he was unable to say who was in charge of the interrogations and what instructions were given to guards.
The study was built upon two foundational interrogations: (1) What are the principal microclimatic risk factors within the square that can affect pedestrian thermal comfort thresholds?; and, (2) How can the identified risk factors be translated into opportunities for public space design?
So, here emerges another role for social science: critical interrogation of what lies behind the official picture.
