Sentence examples for use the harsh methods from inspiring English sources

Nor were most of the officials aware that the former military psychologist who played a central role in persuading C.I.A. officials to use the harsh methods had never conducted a real interrogation, or that the Justice Department lawyer most responsible for declaring the methods legal had idiosyncratic ideas that even the Bush Justice Department would later renounce.

Only by using the harshest methods, they insist, did the intelligence agency get the information it needed to round up Qaeda killers and save thousands of American lives.

Officials said the report assesses the reasoning used in justifying the harsh methods and pressure from the White House to reach particular conclusions.

After Time magazine revealed the harsh methods used at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility to interrogate Mohamed Qatani, the so-called "20th hijacker," the Pentagon replied with a memo describing the "valuable intelligence information" he had revealed.

In interviews, administration officials said they had concluded that it would be impossible to demonstrate Mr. Padilla's involvement in the dirty-bomb plot without exposing the harsh methods used to elicit the information from captive Qaeda leaders.

And he gives a detailed, firsthand account of the C.I.A.'s move toward brutal treatment in its interrogations, saying the harsh methods used on the agency's first important captive, Abu Zubaydah, were unnecessary and counterproductive.

Are countries which view the harsh methods used in places like the Philippines and Iran with disgust on humanitarian grounds actually doing enough to limit the damage done by drugs in their own back yard?

A C.I.A. spokesman said the harsh methods it used were "found lawful by the Department of Justice itself" and were "employed only when traditional means of questioning — things like rapport-building — were ineffective".

He revealed no new information after being waterboarded, the article said, a conclusion that appears to be supported by a footnote to a 2005 Justice Department memo saying the use of the harshest methods appeared to have been "unnecessary" in his case.

But he said in the e-mail that he disagreed with another legal opinion addressing the "combined effects" of the harsh methods, suggesting that their use in combination might be illegal.

The tapes depicted CIA officials' use of harsh methods during the 2002 interrogations of Al Qaeda suspects Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri.