Sentence examples for the use of interrogation from inspiring English sources

The memorandums showed that the administration had authorized the use of interrogation tactics like head-slapping, wall-slamming and waterboarding.

Admiral Blair sent his memo on the same day the administration publicly released secret Bush administration legal memos authorizing the use of interrogation methods that the Obama White House has deemed to be illegal torture.

But the Obama administration will emphasise that James Comey, who was deputy attorney-general under Bush, was among a small group inside the administration who opposed wiretapping and the use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding.

The new nomination was seen as a snub to Senate Democrats who had called for the White House to find another candidate for the job after the disclosure in October that Mr. Bradbury, who is running the office without Senate confirmation, had written classified legal memorandums in 2005 that authorized the use of interrogation methods that human rights groups define as torture.

But some human rights advocates protested, claiming that as a top agency official under President George W. Bush, Mr. Brennan had supported, or at least had failed to stop, the use of interrogation techniques like waterboarding that are widely considered to be torture.

During George W. Bush's first term, Yoo served in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department, where he wrote memos that asserted the president had the power to authorize the use of interrogation techniques like waterboarding, instigate a program of warrantless wiretapping and detain certain enemy combatants without applying the Geneva Conventions.

The interrogations included the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques," such as waterboarding, which constituted torture in the judgment of the Red Cross and many other authorities.

The UN and human rights groups have called for the prosecution of US officials involved in the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques".

McCain added: "In fact, not only did the use of 'enhanced interrogation techniques' on Khalid Sheik Mohammed not provide us with the key leads on bin Laden's courier, Abu Ahmed; it actually produced false and misleading information".

"In fact, not only did the use of 'enhanced interrogation techniques' on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed not provide us with key leads on bin Laden's courier, Abu Ahmed; it actually produced false and misleading information.

Rumsfeld gave the go-ahead for the use of 15 interrogation techniques.