After the CIA visit, Addington wrote another notorious memorandum -- to which the rather less articulate Alberto Gonzales put his name -- in which the Conventions' "strict limits on questioning of enemy prisoners" were seen as hindering attempts "to quickly obtain information from captured terrorists".
Defense lawyers also could have limited the scope of questioning to what Ms. Elliott had heard, not what she had seen, other lawyers said.
The problem with limiting our line of questioning in this fashion is that it does not permit for a genuine evaluation of the two candidates' performances in trying to meet the very challenge it articulates for them.
Mr. Melrose's work tests the limits of manipulation, questioning how far humans can push nature in artificial situations.
Thankfully, excellent and skilled non-profit organisations like the Bay Area's Muslim Advocates offer free information and video tutorials educating all Americans – regardless of faith or race – about their fourth amendment rights and the limits of TSA questioning.
The Egyptian investigation has so far been limited to questioning Regeni's friends, in at least one case without the presence of a lawyer.
When witnesses do appear, judges can stop overly-aggressive cross-examination, but there are no limits on the duration of questioning - or the number of lawyers who can question a witness or victim.
Michael Hennigan, a lawyer for the archdiocese, confirmed that the parties had agreed to a four-hour session with no limits on the line of questioning.
At one time, the law regarded it as acceptable to attempt to discredit the complainant in a rape case by cross-examining her at length about her sex life if it had previously been other than completely chaste; a scandalous state of affairs which Parliament redressed by legislation putting limits on this sort of questioning.
Engaged as "24" is with the fine points of actual counterterrorism policy, its current interest in torture could be seen as a way of questioning the limits of just war.
He tapped into the robust network of Ron Paul activists and supporters to build campaigns for Senate and the White House, often insisting, "I want to be judged by who I am". Sometimes, when he was feeling less generous, he declared the entire father-son line of questioning off limits.
