Sentence examples for rules for interrogation from inspiring English sources

Military officials have described those legal arguments as theoretical and removed from the decision making about rules for interrogation and treatment of prisoners.

Why is standing limited to four hours?" However, less than two months later, on January 15 2003, Mr Rumsfeld rescinded approval for those methods, and set up a Pentagon panel to set rules for interrogation.

Lawyers and policymakers in Washington who sleep between clean sheets and get three hot meals a day can draft complex rules that make fine distinctions between military and CIA rules for interrogation.

Mr. Obama ordered the C.I.A. to abide by the military's stricter rules for interrogation and shut the secret detention facilities where terrorism suspects "disappeared" and were tortured, but he has refused to investigate — let alone prosecute — the senior officials who ordered torture or the government lawyers who provided thin legal justifications for it.

Indeed, members of the panel went out of their way to praise Mr. Rumsfeld for having tried to avert abuses by directing his staff beginning in late 2002 to draw up rules for interrogation at the American detention facility in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

The proposal, which was rejected in a 10-9 vote, identified 23 memos, letters or reports from Sept. 25, 2001, through March of this year on topics that included the treatment of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and rules for interrogation.

The legal interpretation, outlined in recent letters, sheds new light on the still-secret rules for interrogations by the Central Intelligence Agency.

"They had no rules for interrogations," a military officer who traveled to Iraq with General Miller said.

The Bush administration is nearing completion of a long-delayed executive order that will set new rules for interrogations by the Central Intelligence Agency.

Without adequate oversight and discipline, an environment was created in which shifting guidelines for control over an estimated 45,000 detainees, and evolving rules for interrogations, could be interpreted freely and even disregarded.

In addition to creating kangaroo courts to try the Guantánamo detainees, the bill permitted Mr. Bush to abrogate the Geneva Conventions by creating secret, extra-legal rules for interrogations by intelligence agents.