Sentence examples for 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.

"Use of interrogation methods, including suspension, beatings, electric shock, stress positions and threatened sexual assault is unacceptable by any standard of international human rights law," the report said.

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.

Mr. Specter said in an interview Friday that the nomination could hinge on Mr. Mukasey's written responses to questions posed to him this week about the Bush administration's antiterrorism policies, including its use of interrogation techniques like waterboarding, which simulates drowning, and about his larger views on executive power.

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.

2005 The Bush administration admits sending terror suspects abroad but denies transporting them "for the purpose of interrogation using torture".

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".

In the end, administration officials considered Mr. Zubaydah's interrogation an example of the successful use of harsh interrogation techniques.

A US Senate report has condemned the CIA's use of "enhanced interrogation" on al-Qaeda suspects after the 9/11 attacks.