Sentence examples for legitimate interrogation from inspiring English sources
The line between legitimate interrogation and outlawed torture is ill defined, and the reluctance of governments to disclose what they are doing intensifies this murkiness.
Supporters called it a legitimate interrogation tool, and insisted it helped.
- Obama rejects waterboarding as a legitimate form of interrogation.
"The whole thrust of the Quarles case is spontaneity, legitimate instinct, not interrogation," he said.
Nobody wants to be the handmaid to a relaxed policy that accepts torture as a legitimate means of interrogation".
But he defended practices like depriving prisoners of sleep and forcing them into "stress positions" as legitimate means of interrogation, noting that they are among 50-odd coercive techniques sometimes used against enemy detainees.
One of the documents that Lindh's defense team was able to find during the discovery phase of the case was a statement from a U.S. marine to a Navy medic, explaining that the U.S. military viewed sleep deprivation, cold, and hunger as legitimate tools of interrogation.
Meanwhile, to a degree that Americans of a generation ago would never have thought possible, the argument is made that torture can play a legitimate role in interrogation, the practice justified with reference to a greater good (and with the help of semantic fig leaves).
Zero Dark Thirty, another blanked-out, glossed-up portrayal of US policy, seems to imply that America's use of torture – sorry, "enhanced interrogation" – is legitimate because it led to the capture of Osama bin Laden (something that John McCain and others have pointed out is not even true).
It de-skills those who need to learn how to actually conduct legitimate criminal investigations and interrogations.
