Sentence examples for professional interrogation from inspiring English sources

Porter Goss, the director of central intelligence, claimed in Senate testimony that the C.I.A. is not now using torture, and that "waterboarding" is a "professional interrogation" technique.

Mr. Goss, by justifying the practice as a form of professional interrogation, renders dubious his broader claim that the C.I.A. is not practicing torture today.

In March 2005, Porter J. Goss, who was then the C.I.A. director, described waterboarding as a "professional interrogation technique"; American military pilots and commandos are known to have been subjected to it during highly classified training regimes designed to prepare them to live in captivity.

The history of this program reveals its true nature, and it has nothing to do with professional interrogation.

And so, what we're seeing is that waterboarding and enhanced interrogation techniques, just like professional interrogators have been saying for years, always result in either limited information, false information or no information.

As a professional interrogator, I know that successful interrogations rest on building rapport with detainees and convincing them that cooperation is in their best interests.

The Army Field Manual's appendix has long set off alarm bells among professional interrogators, who have said its carefully worded descriptions of interrogation techniques just barely toe the line between humane treatment and torture.

Like Rice, she was at the center of a polarizing tableau: a professional woman whose interrogation seemed misdirected and a little unhinged.

That's crazy.' " Just in case, on Aug. 15, Mr. Powers and some invited lawyers — "the group who most stands to benefit from the knowledge," he says — will indeed have themselves waterboarded, albeit by a professional trained in interrogation techniques and in a private location.

Actually, the NICHD National Institute of Child Health and Human Developmentt) protocol is one of the only interview protocols from the minor victim validated by research, that reflects the recommendations by professionals as an interrogation technique designed to optimize reliability, quantity and quality of information obtained from a child.

Months later, that task force suggested the HIG, an interagency group of interrogation professionals that could be dispatched when a high-value target was captured.