Mitchell and Jessen expanded from psychologists acting as consultants in 2002 to interrogators to ultimately running an $81 million business that provided private guards and more interrogators, the "blue badgers" outranked the contractors.
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The interrogators tried to turn Nashiri's imminent transfer to advantage.
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Similar disappointments may lie in store for Mr. Abdeslam's interrogators.
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After his breakdown, interrogators found Mr. Sawah eager to talk.
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Mr. Khalil answered his interrogators "like a robot," he said.
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But then new interrogators came in, with more forceful techniques.
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His interrogators also berated him for having looked into the killings.
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Interrogators repeatedly made him believe his transfer was imminent, he said.
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Wang had to confess to being a spy, his interrogators insisted.
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Interrogators could visit each cell with the same photograph for identification.
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His troops traveled with interrogators and translators for precisely this purpose.
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In the prison's early years, interrogators frequently used coercive techniques on detainees.
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His interrogators later told him they had broken into the devices anyway.
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But the pair of interrogators knew the Uighur community in Turkey well.
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His interrogators knew the neighborhood's shops and alleyways better than he did.
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Trevithick said the first thing interrogators asked was if he knew Rezaian.
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Where Mr Zuckerberg was competent, his interrogators were often clueless (see article).
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They also emphasized that he cooperated with interrogators without an attorney present.
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The man himself wasn't even the "high-value" figure interrogators had believed.
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In court papers, they accused interrogators of feeding him the "right" answers.
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Some do it because that's the story their interrogators want to hear.
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"Ask them why they fled this way," another of the interrogators suggested.
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As the years progressed, Phelps grew even less comfortable with his interrogators.
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He told interrogators Iqbal had to die because he was a blasphemer.
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" Interrogators' access to medical records was a "flagrant violation of medical ethics.
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Bentley was one of my interrogators, and I have no complaints about him.
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Rights groups say the lack of oversight raises concern about abuse by interrogators.
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" The interrogators used methods which Dahlin said reminded him of "bad American movies.
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Interrogators also threatened to have his mother arrested and gang-raped, he wrote.
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He and others believed the doctors shared information about medical problems with interrogators.
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Sleep is difficult now, but when it comes, his interrogators haunt him there.
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Pretending to be dumb helped Holliday distract her interrogators; she never named names.
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But a vast majority of Phoenix personnel — soldiers, interrogators and analysts — were Vietnamese.
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They — like fellow interrogators elsewhere — scrupulously avoid the word torture ("shekanjeh" in Persian).
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"I believed that Fethullah Gülen was a divine entity," he told his interrogators.
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All of those make it harder for interrogators to extract intelligence, he said.
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Dr. Burney, who assisted the interrogators, said he had seen many detainees' files.
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Rights groups say that the lack of oversight raises concern about abuse by interrogators.
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Her interrogators had to duck through a low door to enter the blacklit space.
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Some claimed to have evidence of their abuse at the hands of their interrogators.
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That wasn't necessary, after all, since it was in the possession of her interrogators.
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When Zuckerberg testifies before Congress, he won't have the luxury of muting his interrogators.
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Dr. Fitaihi believed his interrogators were seeking evidence against Mr. Fakeih, the friend said.
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Looking like a deer in headlights, the ambassador tried to brush off his interrogators.
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On a number of occasions he resisted the interrogators' strong suggestions on particular details.
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His wife said he had been forced by his interrogators to read the confession.
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What struck him most was interrogators' surreal insistence on some trappings of judicial procedure.
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"Ask him why he didn't come out sooner then," one of the interrogators suggested.
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But the interrogators appear to have ultimately concluded that Mr. Nashiri was not lying.
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And Mr. Alsheikh stopped talking to interrogators after being warned of his constitutional rights.
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To obtain such "confessions," interrogators in Iran rely heavily on psychological and physical pressures.
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Until recently, the guards and the interrogators had worn Halloween masks inside the cell.
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Only one of the twenty-six interrogators was capable of working without an interpreter.
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When I turn around and ask how my interrogators take notes, they seem embarrassed.
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Interrogators, bureaucrats and lawyers, including Franz's defense attorney, try to make him see reason.
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That C.I.A. interrogators actually employed this method is consistent with videotapes of waterboarding sessions.
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Most experienced interrogators say no, and their arguments would receive support from these interviews.
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It contains new details about how he was interrogated and what he told his interrogators.
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Libi told his FBI interrogators that there were no ties between Saddam and al-Qaeda.
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There, interrogators use the detainee's isolation and lack of legal protections to interrogate them harshly.
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The next thing Kim knew, she was flying back to Bangladesh with her two interrogators.
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But it noted that his answers were "confused" and "disjointed," and the interrogators became angry.
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She seemed uneasy looking interrogators directly in the eye, which the Navajo believe is rude.
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That kind of reaction might endanger interrogators and damage the C.I.A.'s standing, he asserted.
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He recalled seeing one psychologist working alongside interrogators and then treating detainees at the prison.
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And Ms. Yovanovitch, soft-spoken and calm, showed little hesitation in challenging her Republican interrogators.
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Interrogators ridiculed detainee by developing creative stories to fill in gaps in detainee's cover story.
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The court also refused requests to show video footage of interrogations and summon interrogators for questioning.
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"I am of flesh and blood," Marina coolly answers one of her interrogators in the film.
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Calease, like quite a few of the Cruz interrogators over the past week, didn't buy it.
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He had a rotating cast of interrogators he knew as Major Carlito, Colonel Estrada, and Raisa.
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Initially he refused to answer the questions, but his resistance only made his interrogators push harder.
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Mr. Salim said the interrogators had repeatedly questioned him about his ties in Kenya and Somalia.
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Again and again, he said, he told the American interrogators that he was not their enemy.
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Due to language barriers, foreigners like Zulfiqar may not be able to communicate with their interrogators.
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"The majority of them are the sons of foreign parents," a German staff circular reminded interrogators.
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When Salahi's female interrogators came in for a game of Monopoly, Salahi always threw the match.
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By the time Wood left, he had come to accept his guards and interrogators as family.
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One company that trains interrogators uses the footage as an example of what not to do.
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In the video, interrogators kick and strike prisoners and threaten them if they do not comply.
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In prison, her glasses were taken away so she could not recognize the faces of her interrogators.
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Nine months of bad headlines left lender reputations in tatters, and made media stars of meticulous interrogators.
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"That's his words," Swift said, referring to one of the first interrogators who transcribed what Salman said.
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The interrogators, Wa Lone told the court, already had a list of the policemen he'd spoken to.
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One of his Israeli interrogators recalls him as "extremely hardline and at the same time ruthlessly pragmatic".
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Researchers place units called interrogators along the fibers, which send out and detect short infrared laser pulses.
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But he told his interrogators that night in 2004 that he would never have knowingly assisted terrorists.
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"I found their weed and everything," Mr. Sweat, 36, told his interrogators, referring to the first cabin.
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That allowed the interrogators to slam him loudly into the wall while minimizing the risk of whiplash.
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She showed her interrogators all due deference: "Does that work for you?" she said at one point.
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The voice of my assailant's ghost.... The voices of students, teachers, colleagues, mentors, examiners, interrogators, enlighteners, oppressors.
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Later, in 1970, additional interrogators and Vietnamese people confirmed that they had been waterboarded, shocked and burned.
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In his postmatch news conference on Thursday, Sampaoli could barely raise his eyes to face his interrogators.
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" He said some of the code-named people identified as interrogators were actually "debriefers, targeters and analysts.
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If this bill passes, doctors will be forced to act as police interrogators in the exam room.
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" The court, she added, "does not accept confessions that even the Government's own interrogators did not believe.
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Officials said Mr. Khaybar, who is about 40, was cooperative and provided valuable information to his interrogators.
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Lam said his interrogators focused on two books published by Mighty Current -- both about Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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Police say the taxi driver told interrogators that he hadn&apost slept for 20 hours and accelerated accidentally.
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" But he said he had nothing to tell his interrogators other than that they were "wrong about me.
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And no matter what unauthorized methods Rahman's interrogators subjected him to, he refused to bow to their demands.
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A source familiar with the case said the gunman had told interrogators that he acted on his own.
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The interrogators beat Yezhov's underlings into confessing that he had ordered them to beat confessions out of others.
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But when the interrogators showed his photograph to other detainees, some claimed he was involved with Al Qaeda.
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Many of the suspects would later say they were tortured by CIA interrogators and held in inhumane conditions.
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One told interrogators he heard the other shout the words "God is greatest" in Arabic during the attack.
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Interrogators questioned him repeatedly about the charity, he said in legal papers, then released him with no explanation.
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The cables describe interrogators shaving Mr. Nashiri, locking him in a box and slamming him against the wall.
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Still, Salahi found his Jordanian interrogators to be highly knowledgeable, and they developed a kind of mutual respect.
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Herrington later reported that the interrogators were unsure of the real names of more than half the detainees.
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"In fact, I'd say, without you, September 11th would never have happened," one of Salahi's interrogators told him.
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Her interrogators asked her whether she had ever worn a headscarf and how long she wore her skirts.
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At one interview, team interrogators asked Goff to name a famous linebacker from NFL history who wore number 56.
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Police interrogators said he revealed that the Brussels attackers had originally aimed to strike a football tournament in France.
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But the unlikely nature of the details suggested the script had been written by Mr. Warmbier's North Korean interrogators.
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Then, after a two-day break, new interrogators from the F.B.I. delivered the Miranda warning and questioned him again.
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Victim after victim described how American interrogators swept through villages, looking for the enemy and torturing civilians for information.
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" The interrogators told him that "if he refused to cooperate, he would suffer in ways he never thought possible.
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Interrogators of both the canon and the canonizers have been dismissed as identity politicians rather than critics or scholars.
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Mr. Coello said that his Venezuelan interrogators tried to coerce him into implicating Mr. López but that he refused.
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He was terrified—he wanted to go back to Canada, where interrogators behaved within the bounds of the law.
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They frequently had to speak through fences or slits in cell doors, using interpreters who also worked with interrogators.
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All of that fed the conviction among detainees that information about their mental health was being exploited by interrogators.
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He reportedly told interrogators that he had orders from his commanders to prepare an attack on Israeli naval ships.
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He said he was repeatedly accused by the FBI interrogators of being a top al-Qaeda operative, which he denied.
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" The interrogators warned Nashiri that if he lied, he would "suffer the consequences" and his life would become "infinitely worse.
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In the days before his departure, one of his interrogators mentioned he'd be traveling to Turkey in a few months.
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"There was a lot of beating and then after seven days, you were taken to the interrogators," Theuri told Reuters.
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Once Zubaydah had been softened up, the interrogators filed into the room and questioned him about his Al Qaeda links.
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Even though she knows Riddle's hunger for power, she tells her interrogators that she believes that he can be redeemed.
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Interrogators tried to tempt him into recanting his faith with the offer of marriage to a "beautiful girl," he said.
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After the FBI took Zubaydah into custody, he initially provided his interrogators with limited but accurate intelligence about Al Qaeda.
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" One afternoon, one of his interrogators appeared in his room and said, "'The doctors tell me you aren't getting well.
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The fighter taunted his interrogators, saying that if he recovered he would return to the battlefield and fight them again.
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The interrogators who work with detainees inside the hard site often spend weeks, as opposed to hours, questioning their targets.
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Medical personnel had noted that Salahi had sciatic-nerve issues; now interrogators kept him in stress positions that exacerbated them.
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Later, he couldn't explain why he had created a new narrative, other than the fact that the interrogators seemed dissatisfied.
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The objective was to make the detainees tired, stressed and submissive for interrogators, witnesses later said in military court hearings.
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Interpreters were in such short supply at times that they worked with both the mental health teams and the interrogators.
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That made it safe for interrogators to use other tactics, like extended sleep deprivation, that were not on the list.
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They also learn the appropriate ways to treat detainees, and interrogators are trained to employ only the approved, legal methods.
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Many of those still imprisoned at the facility endured years of torture at the hands of military and C.I.A. interrogators.
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She was made to watch her interrogators beat him and cover him with cold water, before she signed a forced confession.
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During the interrogators' downtime, Zubaydah was left strapped with a cloth over his face, or locked in one of the coffins.
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"Once he realized that Plotnitsky would not get him out, he started to co-operate with his interrogators," the source added.
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The men would be forced into the chair if they refused to cooperate, interrogators allegedly told them, although they never were.
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Gates shares how taking mime classes and talking to SEAL Team Six interrogators helped him to step up his communication skills.
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What the bill conveniently left out, however, was anything about restricting CIA interrogators to using only Army Field Manual-approved techniques.
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"You were disgusted by [Andrew] long before he became disgusting," he tells police interrogators, in a sharp indictment of societal homophobia.
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According to FBI interrogators, the two were motivated by extremist Islamic beliefs, but were not connected to any known terrorist groups.
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He then suggested that interrogators exploit a side effect, food cravings, according to another military doctor who later reviewed the records.
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He told interrogators that he had been Bin Laden's superior officer and warned that a giant snowball would overtake the world.
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In a similar statement, Human Rights Watch quoted "informed sources" as saying Saudi interrogators tortured at least three female Saudi activists.
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Mitchell and Jessen had interrogators, including themselves, socialize with some of the prisoners by watching movies, eating or reading with them.
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For example, when interrogators at a C.I.A. black site prison in Thailand confined Mr. Zubaydah in a cramped box on Aug.
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The department later withdrew those memos, and Congress enacted a law limiting interrogators to techniques listed in the Army Field Manual.
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No official policy dictated the prison playlists; interrogators improvised them on-site, making use of whatever music they had on hand.
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According to ProPublica, in a book written by one of the interrogators present, the COB Haspel witnessed many of these grueling sessions.
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The ISIS cell that carried out the Paris and Brussels attacks also sought to target the event, a suspect has told interrogators.
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Rather than face the party's sometimes brutal interrogators, who eschew such niceties as lawyers, some have preferred to take their own lives.
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Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) proposed an amendment to restrict CIA interrogators to only using the techniques approved in the Army Field Manual.
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So they are simply wrong in how they advise interrogators to divine truth-telling or deception from body language and physical behavior.
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In contradicting his own story, he suggests to his interrogators that he shifted from being an analyst to being a field agent.
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Among other things, it says that a fellow detainee, shown Mr. Qader's photograph by interrogators, identified him as Osama bin Laden's bodyguard.
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To the Editor: I was one in a relatively small cadre of Army interrogators for the first year of the Iraq war.
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One, Shadan al-Anezi, told the court that her interrogators had used drugs such as hash while abusing her, Mr. Assiri said.
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Then, after a two-day break, a new team of interrogators with the F.B.I. delivered the Miranda warning and questioned him again.
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Such a move would reduce the legal risk to interrogators who employ harsh tactics not on that list, like prolonged sleep deprivation.
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The first bars the C.I.A. from operating prisons and requires all interrogators to adhere to techniques approved in the Army Field Manual.
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According to Soufan, Zubaydah, who was generally cooperative, provided the FBI interrogators with valuable intelligence on the overall structure of al-Qaida.
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Aboard the Boxer, Mr. Warsame was given new guards and interrogators, including an F.B.I. agent and former New York Police Department detective.
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Mr. Wei, the retired physicist, said he watched as one of Plant 221's top scientists, Qian Jin, was clubbed by interrogators.
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A source knowledgeable about the questions interrogators asked detainees told VICE News that the questions were: Who are the operatives in the US?
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There were two interrogators, he said, one Han Chinese — China's largest ethnic group — and the other Uighur, both fluent in the Uighur language.
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His attorneys have argued his interrogators made false promises of leniency and fed him facts about the killing that he didn't actually know.
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In overturning Dassey's conviction, the judge cited interrogators' promise of leniency On Friday, a federal judge overturned Dassey's murder conviction, deeming it illegal.
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"Queen for a Day" sessions are tense, often dangerous forums, even for an innocent person facing a wolf pack of determined, prosecutorial interrogators.
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Luckily, the US Army conducted a raid on the area hours after the abduction, causing my interrogators to flee and leaving me safe.
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The committee also pushed back on the notion that the released prisoners were compliant with interrogators and well-behaved while at the facility.
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On top of that, Yates slayed at Monday's hearing, schooling GOP interrogators like Cruz, John Coryn, and John Kennedy (not a real Kennedy).
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When he asserted his innocence, he said, interrogators threatened to turn him over to the Moroccan authorities, who have a history of torture.
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"Interrogators participated in actual torture," he said, before commenting on how those methods occasionally resulted in the death of Vietnamese prisoners of war.
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Mitchell argued that, by reverse-engineering this program, interrogators could overwhelm whatever resistance training a detainee might have absorbed from the Manchester manual.
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Loujain al-Hathloul, a key feminist leader, is reported by her family to have been waterboarded, electrocuted and sexually threatened by prison interrogators.
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Sitting across from Lam, his interrogators produced a stack of banned books, all published by Mighty Current and shipped to China by Lam.
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Finally, two interrogators confronted one of the prisoners about a trip to Amman, Jordan, just before the devastating hotel bombings the previous year.
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"If you complain about your weak point to a doctor, they told that to the interrogators," said Younous Chekkouri, a Moroccan, now released.
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One of the Obama orders Mr. Trump's draft order would revoke also limited interrogators to using techniques listed in the Army Field Manual.
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Mr. Sawah called it a competition between the interrogators, who used food as an incentive, and the doctors, who told him to lose weight.
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Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times in one month and repeatedly slammed into walls, and those weren't the only harsh methods his interrogators used.
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The parents considered their sectarianism the realization of humanism — until their interrogators forced them to choose, and to die, one way or the other.
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"Dassey spoke with the interrogators freely, after receiving and understanding Miranda warnings, and with his mother's consent," Judge David Hamilton wrote for the majority.
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In March 2009, she sued her interrogators, saying they had violated her due process rights by "arresting, threatening, harassing and detaining" her without justification.
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Within a year, Ms. Simon sued her interrogators, saying they had violated her constitutional rights by "arresting, threatening, harassing and detaining" her without justification.
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He claimed his interrogators accused him of being a British spy, a mastermind of the protests, and a "British proxy" to incite the unrest.
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Its centerpiece, championed by Senator John McCain, a Republican, barred interrogators from inflicting cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment on prisoners anywhere in the world.
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Mr. Obama formally closed the unused black sites and shut down the program, requiring all government interrogators to adhere to the Army Field Manuals.
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Some were let go shortly after their arrest, but five others were criminally detained for five weeks, and even accused by interrogators of being spies.
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Perhaps this difficulty in securing evidence is why FIA interrogators have been accused of resorting to illegal means and torture to extract information and confessions.
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"They were not interrogators, and they did not have any expertise in interrogation," said Francesca Laguardia, associate professor of justice studies at Montclair State University.
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"Dassey spoke with the interrogators freely, after receiving and understanding Miranda warnings, and with his mother's consent," wrote Judge David Hamilton in the majority opinion.
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Dahlin's interrogators made it clear that they'd keep his girlfriend, a Chinese national, in custody for as long as it took to resolve his case.
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The looming danger of airstrikes motivated him to sell his sheep, flee the farm and try to escape via water truck, Doe told the interrogators.
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If I had the opportunity to speak to other interrogators and intelligence professionals, I would warn them about men like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.
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There are doubts about the effectiveness of an interrogation program that prohibits interrogators from spending more than an hour or two with any one detainee.
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Both sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said one of the suspects had begun to talk to interrogators, notably on the subject of possible targets.
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Hours later, videos of the bloodied Indian pilot, handcuffed and blindfolded, appeared on social media, identifying himself to Pakistani interrogators, deepening anger in New Delhi.
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The cables, obtained by the archive in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, were redacted to eliminate the names of interrogators and C.I.A. officers involved.
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By law, prosecutors cannot use what the men told Dr. Mitchell and other interrogators in the C.I.A. prison as evidence in the death-penalty trial.
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"I wasn't brought up with that way of thinking, and I am totally against it," one of the men, Miloud Maalmi, told interrogators in 2014.
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At this week's hearing — the fortieth so far — the judge will consider whether statements from the defendants were given voluntarily, considering the interrogators' aggressive tactics.
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He provided interrogators with considerable information — but that was to F.B.I. agents who questioned him before he was turned over to the C.I.A. for torture.
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Afghani's interrogators got nothing useful from their prisoner; Hayden suggests that this was because the harshest techniques had by then been taken off the table.
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"I don't expect everyone to understand," Ms. Wang said, explaining the agonizing decision she made to agree to the interrogators' demands in exchange for her release.
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The information he provided to interrogators has given the U.S. enough information to begin striking ISIS areas in Iraq associated with the group's chemical weapons program.
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The group's head, Rudolf (Jan Klusák) sets up a desk in front of picnickers and interrogates them in the manner of K's interrogators in The Trial.
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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Monday announced that it had repatriated a prominent Guantánamo detainee who wrote a best-selling memoir recounting his abuse by American interrogators.
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A 2006 Supreme Court ruling put interrogators "at risk of prosecution for war crimes, leading to a temporary halt" of their interrogation methods, the NYT reports.
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Around the same time, Pitre swallowed a handful of sleeping pills and would have died had police interrogators not found her near death in her home.
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They can undergo prolonged agony, which may lead to death, if inadvertently — interrogators want a confession, not a badly damaged corpse, which can cause political embarrassment.
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As Abouzeid mentions in passing and others have confirmed independently, the United States "rendition" program turned over several suspects to the grotesque ministrations of Syria's interrogators.
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"The Vietcong usually sank themselves in the mud along the canal banks," a deserter told his interrogators, according to a report I found in the archives.
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The C.I.A. inspector general later found that agency interrogators sometimes exceeded the limits in the descriptions of techniques provided to the Justice Department for legal analysis.
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Opinion Columnist Robert Mueller seemed to be hoping during congressional hearings on Wednesday that SEAL Team 6 would rush in and rescue him from his interrogators.
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Opinion Columnist Robert Mueller seemed to be hoping during congressional hearings on Wednesday that SEAL Team 6 would rush in and rescue him from his interrogators.
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"In discussing his 32 movies, Buñuel (1900-83) is charmingly temperamental in his refusal to be cornered by the exegeses of his interrogators," wrote our reviewer.
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Individual interrogators were often leery about the brutality they were ordered to engage in, and were kept in line by the threat of being tortured themselves.
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Only after he satisfied his interrogators was he allowed to go to the camp's barber to shave off the beard that ISIS had required residents to wear.
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Frein&aposs lawyers argue interrogators violated his right to remain silent and should have permitted him to speak with a defense lawyer the night he was captured.
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Family sources said the man was motivated by revenge after being mistreated by interrogators at the security facility when he was detained a week before the shooting.
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Comparing the prisoner to a piece of meat, the interrogators said the dark days he faced were their fault because they had failed to "tenderize" him properly.
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Distressed by his suffering, interrogators told C.I.A. supervisors that they thought he had no more information to offer — only to be ordered to continue the rough treatment.
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According to internal government documents, the plan called for interrogators to take Slahi onto a boat and lead him to believe he was going to be executed.
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He has criticized Mr. Obama's decisions to shut down the C.I.A.'s "black site" prisons and to require all interrogators to strictly adhere to anti-torture laws.
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"We spend years trying to get inside their minds," she said of the prisoners, adding that the art is one way for interrogators to gain possible insights.
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So many said they had been members of the Islamic State for only a month or two that interrogators suspected they had been coached to say that.
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Ali Muhammed Syan, chief of the Asayish interrogators in Dibis, said even the fighters did not seem to know why their leaders were telling them to quit.
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In Fusco's video "Operation Atropos" (2006), the artist subjected a group of her female students to an immersive P.O.W. simulation staged by retired United States Army interrogators.
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His interrogators made it clear that they want to rein in the social network by making it more accountable to users, or even breaking up the firm.
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The Justice Department allowed interrogators to simulate drowning for up to 40 seconds by using a wet cloth to block air flow through the nose and mouth.
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When Mr. Qahtani asked for a doctor to relieve psychological symptoms, the interrogators instead performed an exorcism for "jinns" — supernatural creatures that he believed caused his problems.
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His interrogators told my father that his assuming a neutral position on the Saudi-Qatar crisis and failing to stand with the Saudi government was a crime.
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During Tuesday's hearing, Nirider argued that her client's confession had been coerced by interrogators who repeatedly made "false promises of leniency" as they tried to ensure Dassey's cooperation.
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Over the next few months, members told interrogators, the group attended a couple of protests in support of Navalny and one in support of a Moscow trolley line.
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Congress passed the National Defense Authorization Act in 2015, which reaffirmed a prohibition on torture and required U.S. interrogators to adhere to techniques in the Army field manual.
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Babysitting a son or brother bound to the divan with plasticuffs draining him white and a drenched towel over his face keeping him cool, until the interrogators came. . . .
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Just like the tactics used on Dassey, shown in "Making a Murderer," the courts turned a blind eye to the trickery and leading questions that my interrogators used.
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A military commission judge ruled Friday that prosecutors can't use statements made by Guantánamo Bay detainees to FBI interrogators after they were removed from a secret CIA prison.
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When his interrogators asked for his position in MI6, he falsely confessed to being a captain, a rank that he later learned does not exist in the agency.
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Victims were believed to have been beaten, kicked and given electric shocks by interrogators trying to extract information about the opposition movement, the court said in a statement.
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The interrogators continually told Mr. Nashiri they did not believe he was telling everything he knew, threatening him with worse treatment if he did not tell them more.
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Then he was transferred to a jail in his home, Mansoura, 20183 miles north of Cairo, where interrogators say they confronted him with printouts from his Facebook account.
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A 85033 defense policy bill codified two Obama administration executive orders limiting interrogators to Army Field Manual-approved techniques and requiring Red Cross access to any detention facilities.
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Nudity: Sometimes used in conjunction with all of the techniques above, interrogators would use nudity as a humiliation tactic, as well as a physical tactic in cold conditions.
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As the CIA's video cameras rolled, security guards shackled Abu Zubaydah to a gurney and interrogators poured water over his mouth and nose until he began to suffocate.
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It was after they were able to identify the two detainees associated with Jihadi John that interrogators were able to get information on the remains of the hostages.
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That draft of the order dropped the ideas of reopening C.I.A. prisons and permitting interrogators to use harsher techniques than those now allowed in the Army Field Manual.
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As she digs deeper, she discovers that he is a demon who's out to expose the interrogators' darkest secrets — and he's not the only ghoul in their midst.
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Al Darbi testified during the hearing that he had previously been tortured with sleep deprivation, threats of rape, and interrogators who disrespected the Quran, the Miami Herald reports.
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"[D]espite building a reputation as one of the Senate's toughest interrogators and vaulting ahead of most of the 2020 field, [Harris] remains a politician under construction," he writes.
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Interrogators accused Najjar of being a bodyguard of Osama bin Laden and Gherissi of being an al Qaeda member, but both were returned to Tunisia in 2015 and released.
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" The CIA document says interrogators then gave Abu Zubaydah another opportunity to provide threat information, with him responding: "What I have, I give it all...I have no more.
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Sitting in the small room across from the UN interrogators, Holden had done his best to take apart his life until that point and lay it open before them.
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Reuters was given exclusive access to the facility and allowed to speak with Abbas, another 17-year-old boy and two adult women, all in the presence of interrogators.
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Soviet interrogators would put on their desks, in full view, the personal effects of suspects' relatives as well as a copy of a decree legalizing the execution of children.
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" At the end of one interview, when Searcey asked if there was anything that Dean would like to add, he laughed and told the interrogators to "delete my mistakes.
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One family associate said a younger brother told him he was never informed why he was there, had no access to a lawyer and was barely visited by interrogators.
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Mr. Obama issued an executive order requiring interrogators to use only techniques approved in the Army Field Manual, and he later signed a bill codifying that rule into statute.
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Congress overwhelmingly enacted a law last year that allowed American interrogators to use only those techniques authorized in the Army Field Manual, which does not include harsh coercive methods.
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According to the indictment against him, Islam Abu Humaid told interrogators that he wanted to avenge the injury of one of his brothers in a previous Israeli army raid.
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"I think you're a good person, and I think you ended up in a really bad situation that there was no good answer to," one of the interrogators said.
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"It is clear that some, if not all, crew members provided at least some information to interrogators beyond name, rank, service number and date of birth," the report said.
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Sir Philip prefaced many of his replies "with due respect", or "respectfully, sir", clearly suggesting that in fact he had very little respect for any of his parliamentary interrogators.
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Fair Game John Stumpf, the chairman and chief executive of Wells Fargo, won a dubious achievement award from one of his interrogators during Tuesday's scorching hearings on Capitol Hill.
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The critics maintained that the government would lose information if interrogators read suspects Miranda warnings that they had a right to remain silent and be represented by defense lawyers.
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Even though Mr. Guzmán ordered the interrogators not to kill Mr. Rincón until he got there, the memo claimed that by the time he arrived, Mr. Rincón was dead.
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Lines attributed to "Unknown Male" — dreamlike fragments of loose F.B.I. chatter picked up by the interrogators' recorder — are all played on stage by Half Straddle company member Becca Blackwell.
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Both men acted as interrogators, demanding that the captives confess to corrupt self-enrichment and pledge to surrender vast sums, according to relatives and close associates of several detainees.
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After days of mounting pressure and promises from his interrogators that they would ease his treatment if he admitted to spying, Mr. Hedges said, he finally signed a confession.
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Thousands of Iraqis, some of them insurgents, plenty of them innocent civilians caught up in the post-invasion chaos, and far too few qualified interrogators to sort it out.
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Through the day, Dr. Mitchell portrayed himself as a sometime whistle-blower who tried to prevent full-time C.I.A. interrogators from doing gratuitously cruel things in the black sites.
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I'm going to read the East German dissident Jürgen Fuchs's "Vernehmungsprotokolle" ("Interrogation Records"), accounts of his conversations with his interrogators while a detainee of the Stasi in Hohenschönhausen prison.
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In Pinochet's Chile, interrogators employed, among other selections, the soundtrack to "A Clockwork Orange," whose notorious aversion-therapy sequence, scored to Beethoven, may have encouraged similar real-life experiments.
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Most Americans who have been charged with crimes related to ISIS have been picked up in sting operations before they are ever able to leave the U.S. Khweis's defense attorneys asked during pretrial hearings for the man's confession to be admissible in court, arguing that intelligence interrogators who initially interviewed Khweis essentially prepared him to give answers in a second round of interrogators intended to get information to be used in court.
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To improve his chances of better treatment once in Egypt, Libi told his interrogators that bin Laden had sent two operatives to Iraq to learn about biological and chemical weapons.
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Since European interrogators are not under the same time constraints as in the United States, they will be able to spend considerable time with Abdeslam to get him to talk.
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He also told his interrogators that the network of tunnels includes rooms for resting, fitted with showers, and dining areas in order to improve the conditions for Hamas's underground fighters.
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The FBI portrait, painted in agonizing detail by headline-hunting congressional interrogators, was an ugly view of an institution that once enjoyed a reputation for political independence, honesty and integrity.
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He told interrogators that after completing the ninth grade in Yemen in 1999, he had traveled to Pakistan intending to study religion and computers, and to do charitable relief work.
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The detainee, Majid Khan, said interrogators at an unidentified CIA black site video taped him naked, poured cold water on and touched his genitals and hung him naked from poles.
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It runs through the backbone of the genre's history, through the elaborate puzzles and mazes of classic text adventures, through shackles in interrogators' chambers and women immured by fairytale contracts.
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Games and Guantánamo generally don't go in the same sentence, unless we're talking about mind games played by interrogators or the soccer field the Department of Defense built for detainees.
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The scene was a county jail and the interrogators were inmates in prison garb — soft cotton scrubs, some blue, some brown, some orange, depending on the status of their cases.
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To date, analysts say, he has said little to interrogators who have pressed him for details on how the cell hatched its plan, the worst terrorist attack in French history.
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He went on to warn his audience not to be too "sanctimonious" about the tough job that "those folks"—the CIA interrogators, now—were doing in Iraq after September 11.
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One day, he complained to Wood that the interrogators were demanding information on events that he couldn't possibly know about, because they had taken place while he was in custody.
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Salahi came to think of his interrogators as acting out a Mauritanian folktale in which a blind man is given the gift of a single, fleeting glimpse of the world.
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When Bailey thinks of Hill, one image dominates: Hill standing before her male congressional interrogators in her teal blue dress, a look of exhaustion and sorrow etched on her face.
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All of this happened even though Nashiri cried and pleaded with agency interrogators, promising them that he would comply with any demands that they had, according to the newly released cables.
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While claiming to bear Ms Blasey Ford no ill-will, he fulminated against his Democratic interrogators, whom he accused of bad faith, slander, vengefulness and "totally and permanently" destroying his family.
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Dassey's attorney, Laura Nirider, argued before the panel that her client's confession had been coerced by interrogators who repeatedly made "false promises of leniency" as they tried to ensure Dassey's cooperation.
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In a separate but strikingly similar statement, citing "informed sources," Human Rights Watch claimed interrogators had tortured at least three of the Saudi women activists detained at the beginning of May.
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But prosecutors argued that his rights were upheld as he was questioned by two sets of interrogators -- an intelligence gathering team and a separate FBI unit tasked with collecting criminal evidence.
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So, unless he completely stonewalls interrogators, we will develop insights into his twisted and wicked mindset and hopefully put that to use both in law enforcement and in the public lexicon.
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He says interrogators accused him of inciting subversion and pressed him to give them details ranging from his personal life and finances, to his work, clients, and all of his contacts.
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It's a desperate situation that keeps the tension high while the author builds the narrative frames of his sister as storyteller or the police interrogators and medical personnel as story prompters.
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But the script is often strangled by its overgrown lyricism and by its surprising tendency toward melodramatic clichés as the other characters present their testimonies to an unseen audience of interrogators.
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Boy B was convicted largely on the basis of admissions and lies he made to police interrogators, and closed circuit images and witness testimony from around the time of the attack.
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The evidence the government has turned over about that program includes summaries about what agency employees and contractors who served as guards, doctors and interrogators at the prisons saw and did.
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By 2005, they set up a business, Mitchell Jessen and Associates, that grew to provide all of the contract guards at the black sites and 80 percent of the agency's interrogators.
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He was waterboarded 83 times in a single month, had his head repeatedly slammed into walls and endured other harsh methods before interrogators decided he had no useful information to provide.
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Is it crazy to think the younger black postmodernists — these interrogators of blackness, these satirists of race — have an intellectual luxury afforded them by Wilson's dogged devotion to place and history?
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The Duma case has caused an uproar among the far right in Israel, with lawyers representing the suspects accusing Shin Bet interrogators of torturing and abusing them in order to extract confessions.
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A source close to the investigation told CNN that local associates of the Nice attacker detained for questioning have told interrogators that Bouhlel started speaking supportively of ISIS days before the attack.
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"Security team members burst into the subject&aposs cell, shouting and howling" while one of the interrogators "walled him five times" and then pretended to interrupt the mock killing and rescue him.
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Handcuffed and hooded men sit in a dirty, concrete room while interrogators repetitively question them about information so banal that any broader relevance to the "war on terror" is hard to imagine.
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They told American interrogators about grave sites, but the military and investigators found no remains for Ms. Mueller or the others at those locations, according to a former senior American intelligence official.
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It started to shut down the program in 2006, after the Supreme Court issued a ruling about the Geneva Conventions that put agency interrogators in jeopardy of being prosecuted for war crimes.
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Pohl made headlines earlier this year when he ruled that prosecutors could not use statements made by Guantánamo Bay detainees to FBI interrogators after they were removed from a secret CIA prison.
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From his former post on the House Intelligence Committee, Pompeo condemned the Obama administration rules limiting government interrogators to techniques in the field manual — regulations that are up for review this year.
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Mr. Hong said he had been held in solitary confinement for 84 days and forced to write draft after draft of a confession until a fictional version emerged that satisfied his interrogators.
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He also stressed that the legal landscape was different at the time because Congress had not yet enacted a law requiring intelligence agency interrogators to obey the same rules the military follows.
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They went on to set up a business that provided guards and interrogators to work at the secret overseas prisons set up after the 2001 attacks and the subsequent invasion of Afghanistan.
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The interrogators subjected some detainees at Guantánamo to loud music, strobe lights, cold temperatures, isolation, painful shackling, threats against family members and prolonged sleep deprivation, according to the Justice Department's inspector general.
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From his former post on the House Intelligence Committee, Pompeo condemned the Obama administration rules limiting government interrogators to techniques in the field manual, regulations that are up for review this year.
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According to a draft of the order, Mr. Trump also intends to review the agency's now-defunct interrogation program, in which interrogators tortured some suspected terrorists through waterboarding and extensive sleep deprivation.
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READ: How ISIS recruits children, then kills them Not their first fight Many of the children have battle wounds from previous fights that have yet to heal, interrogators told a CNN security source.
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Early in his presidency, Barack Obama restricted interrogators to mild techniques, such as exploiting the subject's fears and resentments or offering small rewards like cigarettes, laid out in the revised Army Field Manual.
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The order would revoke a series of Obama administration rules that closed CIA "black sites," granted Red Cross access to all detainees and limited interrogators to techniques approved in the Army Field Manual.
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WASHINGTON — A Guantánamo Bay detainee whose memoir recounting abuse by American interrogators became a best-seller last year has been recommended for transfer out of the wartime prison, the military disclosed on Wednesday.
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In transcripts of meetings with his lawyers, which they released in January, Mr. Xie told of torture and abuse inflicted by interrogators, who threatened to turn him into an "invalid" unless he confessed.
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He told The Times of London that the interrogators offered him leniency early in his detention if he agreed to steal documents from the British Foreign Office and give them to the Emiratis.
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After a prosecutor provided him with a top secret guide to the codes the United States government had assigned to interrogators whose names cannot be used in court, he declared the list flawed.
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Saying there is "no evidence (Salman) encouraged Mateen and his pathology," Moreno also took aim at FBI interrogators, accusing them of coercing Salman into "adopting their narrative" and failing to record her statements.
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From his former post on the House Intelligence Committee, Pompeo condemned new Obama administration rules limiting government interrogators to techniques in the Army Field Manual — regulations that are up for review this year.
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Fincher described Zheng's deep shock, how she would grow afraid whenever she heard a knock at the door, terrified of being arrested again, and remembering the hazy faces of her interrogators and her prison.
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"Mukhtar nervously explained to debriefer that he was under 'enhanced measures' when he made these claims and simply told his interrogators what he thought they wanted to hear," reads a document dated June 2003.
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Though the documents say he did provide information to interrogators about plots in the United Kingdom, Pakistan, and the US, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's omissions and fabrications had created long-standing concerns at CIA headquarters.
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They plugged their interrogators into the fiber line along the Department of Energy's Dark Fiber Testbed, 13,000 miles of telecommunications fiber in the western United States that is used for testing new communication equipment.
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Here's the most shocking passage from the report:According to a transcript viewed by Bloomberg Businessweek, the conversation started on friendly terms, with the two interrogators asking Tripp about reports he'd made to his bosses.
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Matthew Trevithick, who had traveled to Iran to study Farsi, told CNN that interrogators at Iran's Evin Prison also accused him of having access to millions of dollars and knowledge of secret weapons caches.
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"The plaintiffs in these cases allege that they were beaten, electrocuted, raped, subjected to attacks by dogs, and otherwise abused by private contractors working as interpreters and interrogators at Abu Ghraib prison," he wrote.
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Late last month, the Justice Department revealed for the first time that the man had, in fact, asked his interrogators for an attorney and was told it was "unknown" when he would receive one.
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His 2015 book, "Guantanamo Diary" — portions of which were heavily redacted by the government — recounts in vivid and harrowing detail the Mauritanian's rendition, his torture by interrogators, and the grave conditions of his confinement.
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Their officers, particularly Lloyd Bucher, the ship's commander, came in for vicious punishments, as their interrogators demanded they sign "confessions" stating they were illegally spying in North Korean territorial waters when they were captured.
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He drew a distinction between the guards "on the outside" — village youths doing terrible things out of a dim sense of duty — and the interrogators "on the inside," who seemed like specialists in cruelty.
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Saudi interrogators have reportedly tortured at least four of the women with electric shocks, and by whipping their thighs and sexually harassing and assaulting them, Human Rights Watch said in a statement on Thursday.
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"Interrogation escalated rapidly from subject being aggressively debriefed by interrogators while standing at the walling wall, to multiple applications of the walling technique, and ultimately, multiple applications of the watering technique," another document said.
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The interrogators claimed Mr. Garratt's photos of street scenes in Dandong and views of North Korea across the Yalu River were espionage, even though tourists on riverboat trips took the same photos every day.
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He said his interrogators offered him a deal: Confess to belonging to a terror organization controlled by officials in Kiev and get a seven-year sentence, or refuse and spend 20 years in jail.
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He was captured in a raid by U.S. commandos in Libya in 2014 and brought to United States on a U.S. Navy ship that allowed for an FBI-led team of interrogators to question him.
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"Zubayadah alone was waterboarded 83 times in a single month, had his head repeatedly slammed into walls and endured other harsh methods before interrogators decided he had no useful information to provide," The Times reported.
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Interrogators would sit down with every single NSC staffer (there's more than 100 of them), and ask them, individually, what they know about the leaks of transcripts of the president's phone calls with foreign leaders.
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Less than a month later, McCain pushed through an amendment to the 2006 Defense Authorization Bill that restricted US military interrogators to only using methods listed in the US Army Field Manual on Intelligence Interrogation.
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Specifically, that iteration of the order would have revoked executive orders that closed the sites, granted Red Cross access to all detainees and required interrogators to only use techniques approved in the Army Field Manual.
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For Mr. Roginsky, historical memory meant more than compiling records; it also meant giving a name to the culprits — the interrogators, the guards, the state itself — and sounding the alarm at violations of human rights.
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One survivor, who asked to be identified only as Khalil K. to protect family still in Syria, watched a teenager take 21 days to die after interrogators doused him with fuel and set him alight.
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The Senegalese did the talking, but the Americans provided the questions and reported back to D.C. Eventually, one of the interrogators told Salahi that he was going to be sent to Mauritania for more questioning.
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It responded to a 2006 Supreme Court ruling about the Geneva Conventions that had put C.I.A. interrogators at risk of prosecution for war crimes, leading to a temporary halt of the agency's "enhanced" interrogations program.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The leaders of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee asked Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Friday to investigate any involvement of U.S. interrogators at secret prisons in Yemen where inmates have reportedly been tortured.
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The three-page order would reportedly revoke a series of Obama administration executive orders that closed the sites, granted Red Cross access to all detainees and limited interrogators to techniques approved in the Army Field Manual.
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FBI special agent Michael Ferlazzo testified Santiago told interrogators he carried out the attack on behalf of Islamic State and that he had been in contact with others on jihadist chat rooms who were planning attacks.
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"Abaaoud, known as Abou Omar, was the principal commander of future attacks in Europe," Nicolas Moreau, a French jihadist who was arrested last year, told his French interrogators, according to the report by France's antiterror police.
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In 1987, for example, an Israeli commission gave interrogators a green light to use "moderate physical pressure" only in cases where the victim had information about an imminent attack — your classic Jack Bauer ticking time bomb.
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The two psychologists who had set up the interrogation program that used waterboarding and violence and was authorized by the Bush administration had intended for interrogators to learn by trying out the techniques on each other.
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But, when the new commander asked Stuart Herrington, a retired colonel and Army intelligence officer, to assess operations at the facility, Herrington found that most interrogators lacked the training and the experience required to be effective.
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Armed with years of emails, Skype messages and surveillance records, the interrogators accused the Garratts of "hosting" foreign diplomats at their coffee shop, taking orders from Canada's intelligence agency and stealing state secrets, the couple said.
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One was Mr. Obama's directive to close the Guantánamo prison and the other was his directive to end C.I.A. prisons, grant Red Cross access to all detainees and limit interrogators to the Army Field Manual techniques.
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But if America was suddenly faced with the shock of dozens or hundreds dead in a terror strike, you could imagine Trump moving to reopen black sites and give interrogators a green light to mistreat prisoners.
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Two years ago in Ghulja, interrogators asked the young businessman detained at the airport in China the same questions about his politics and connections over and over again, searching for evidence of his connections to extremist groups.
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The two men, now in their early 50s, separately told Human Rights Watch that U.S. interrogators had showed them a makeshift metal chair with plugs, wires and a cap that they were told was an electric chair.
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If Trump officials think they will be able to defy the requests (or subpoenas) that are headed their way, or insult their way out of answering Hill interrogators, they are about to have a very rude awakening.
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"Interrogation escalated rapidly from subject being aggressively debriefed by interrogators while standing at the walling wall, to multiple applications of the walling technique, and ultimately, multiple applications of the watering technique," one document read, referring to waterboarding.
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In a sign the Belgian authorities had the Bakraoui brothers in their sights before they carried out their attacks, interrogators presented Mr. Abdeslam with photographs of the siblings after his capture and asked if he knew them.
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Human rights groups and lawyers for the men have long said the assessment files are unreliable because they are based on claims interrogators gleaned from a handful of detainees who were tortured — including the 10 detainees themselves.
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Instead, he told interrogators that he went to Syria intending to be a freelance journalist but was instead arrested by the Islamic State, then began working for the group seven months later to get out of prison.
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Mr. Pompeo has criticized Mr. Obama's decision in January 2009 to shut down the agency's black-site prisons and require all interrogators to strictly adhere to anti-torture laws and use only Army Field Manual interrogation techniques.
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"Our clients underwent trying days and suffered the extremely inappropriate conduct of the Shin Bet interrogators," said the three lawyers, Adi Keidar and Nati Rom of the right-wing legal aid group Honenu, and Itamar Ben Gvir.
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A senior United States official said Mr. Kotey and Mr. Elsheikh had provided valuable information to military interrogators about the remaining Islamic State leadership and support structure, which are under tremendous pressure from air and ground attacks.
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Having dropped its first trailer on Tuesday, Ghoul follows a new prisoner at a remote military interrogation centre, who turns the tables on interrogators by dredging up some secrets and starting some demonic-looking business along the way.
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The man told his American interrogators that he was a U.S. citizen, and that he had come to Syria in January 2015 to cover the war as a freelance journalist before being imprisoned for seven months by ISIS.
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In February, he even dressed up as Mr. Trump and, in the WhiteBox gallery, staged a routine with another artist, Rebecca Goyette, dressed as Sarah Palin — a performance that his interrogators this week were aware of, he said.
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At the evening gatherings at the Christian Orthodox Church of Christ the Savior, they light candles, catch up on the latest police summonses, and swap tips for answering interrogators' questions and rumors of the whereabouts of Mr. Dragicevic.
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Most of the photographs dating from the bloodiest months of the regime in 1978 are of Khmer Rouge soldiers, cadres, provincial officials and even Tuol Sleng guards and interrogators arrested on suspicion of being traitors or CIA agents.
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The agents also noted that Mohammed, the mastermind of the plot, told interrogators that he had advised Hazmi and Mihdhar to seek help from local Muslims in California because they were so ill prepared to fend for themselves.
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Some interrogation methods are more likely than others to produce false confessions, yet there are no national standards; fewer than half of states require interrogations to be videotaped, and all of them allow interrogators to lie to suspects.
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After President Barack Obama took office, Mr. Durham's brief was expanded to include a criminal investigation into the C.I.A.'s role in the deaths of two detainees in overseas locations, based on allegations of mistreatment by their interrogators.
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CIA interrogators were so worried about the details of Zubaydah&aposs torture becoming public that they requested "reasonable assurances that [Abu Zubaydah] will remain in isolation and incommunicado for the remainder of his life," the Senate report found.
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Once in Egypt's grim prisons, to improve his chances of better treatment, Libi fed his interrogators a number of fairy tales, including that Osama bin Laden had sent two operatives to Iraq to learn about biological and chemical weapons.
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Indeed, in the Senate Intelligence Committee's torture report, CIA interrogators asked in a cable for "reasonable assurances" that he would "remain in isolation and incommunicado for the remainder of his life" if he did not die during his interrogation.
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Another detainee provided key information before being subjected to the some of the harshest torture techniques, such as waterboarding — and interrogators kept torturing him even after they determined he very likely had no more new threat information to give.
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" In total, Zubaydah spent more than eleven days inside the large coffin-size box and twenty-nine hours inside the smaller one, his interrogators telling him that the only way he would leave the facility was "in a box.
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In its place, it would resurrect a 85033 George W. Bush order that designated specific prisoner abuses as war crimes -- protecting interrogators from prosecution for the use of techniques not on the list, including, for example, extended sleep deprivation.
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In its place, it would resurrect a 2007 George W. Bush order that designated specific prisoner abuses as war crimes — protecting interrogators from prosecution for the use of techniques not on the list, including, for example, extended sleep deprivation.
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"Once, during an interrogation session, I told the interrogators that of all the services that a government must provide for its citizens you only know of one, arresting people," Khandan said in the Facebook post announcing his wife's arrest.
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Kacmaz, his wife, and two daughters were, "roughed-up, hooded, handcuffed and taken in a wagon" to a "furnished house where several other interrogators were also present", HRCP, a non-governmental organization, said in a statement late on Wednesday.
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Several of the techniques CIA interrogators used on Rahman were unauthorized; in August 2002, a Department of Justice attorney named John Yoo had written a legal memo sanctioning nearly a dozen torture methods for use on high-value captives.
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Several of the techniques CIA interrogators used on Rahman were unauthorized; in August 20123, a Department of Justice attorney named John Yoo had written a legal memo sanctioning nearly a dozen torture methods for use on high-value captives.
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But the man also insisted to his interrogators that he traveled to Syria intending to work as a journalist and was arrested, later agreeing to work for the Islamic State to gain release from prison, the document also showed.
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But the man also insisted to his interrogators that he had traveled to Syria intending to work as a journalist and was arrested, later agreeing to work for the Islamic State to gain release from prison, it also showed.
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The journalist, Cody Weddle, told reporters who met him at Miami International Airport as he arrived from Caracas that his interrogators had covered his face with a ski mask and accused him of having contacts with senior military officials.
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Asked about the claim that Mr. Shokuri implicated himself in the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group in some new way, Mr. Idrissi said that he had read the statements his client had made to Moroccan interrogators and that none incriminated him.
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If Mr Kavanaugh is confirmed, after having expressed contempt for his Democratic interrogators and blamed the airing of Ms Blasey's allegation on a vengeful left-wing cabal of rich Clinton supporters, the court's claim to be above politics will be untenable.
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Instead, it was the tainted fruit of an "extraordinary rendition" in which militants were transported by American officials to countries that routinely used torture, where they would supposedly finally divulge whatever secrets they had been keeping from their American interrogators.
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The network also interviewed one of the interrogators for the Khmer Rouge and note the startling historical fact that only four people were ever prosecuted for the genocide — people who worked with the regime were not arrested, only the top officials.
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The daughter of parents who immigrated from the West Bank in 1985, Salman was repeatedly questioned by law enforcement interrogators after the club attack, telling them she was with Mateen when he bought ammunition and conducted surveillance of the club.
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Members of the CIA team warned officials at the agency's headquarters repeatedly that Zubaydah did not seem to have the information that the officials were so convinced he possessed, and that the interrogators might be pushing the harsh methods too far.
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And not just any woman: an uningratiating, often unstylish woman who handled all interrogators at the Benghazi hearings with stone-cold composure; a woman who not just acceded to but also enjoyed a vodka-shot throw-down with John McCain.
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Mr. Jiang was detained that year for two months, telling rights groups of his abuse at the hands of his interrogators, according to an account of his life on the website of China Change, a group based in the United States.
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But he was a top aide to Prince Turki bin Abdullah, a son of the late King Abdullah and a former governor of Riyadh, and the interrogators may have been pressing the general for information about his boss, Prince Turki.
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In his first public comments since being released last week from seven months of detention in the United Arab Emirates, Matthew Hedges, a British academic, described the extended psychological torture he says he endured at the hands of his interrogators.
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"Atouna provided his interrogators much information about the tunnel routes in the northern Gaza Strip, its tunnel-digging methods, the use of private homes and public buildings to bore tunnels and materials used," Shin Bet said in a statement on Thursday.
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But after the government acknowledged that the man had indicated that he wanted a lawyer after interrogators eventually informed him of his Miranda rights, Judge Chutkan ordered the government last month to let the A.C.L.U. lawyers speak with him via teleconference.
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Kurdish interrogators allowed a dozen of the surrendered fighters to be interviewed by a reporter as they arrived at the local headquarters of the Asayish, the Kurdish intelligence service, in the town of Dibis, near the Kurds' front lines opposite Hawija.
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These drawings show the coercive interrogation techniques that Abu Zubaydah says were used on him by CIA interrogators when he was held in CIA secret prisons outside the US for four years after he was captured in Pakistan in 22005.
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GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — It was May 22003, a year into the C.I.A. program that had led to three detainees being waterboarded hundreds of times in search of information about possible terror plots, and the agency needed to train more interrogators.
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Mr. Xie said he was abused by interrogators who blew smoke in his face, punched and kicked him, and forced him to sit on top of a wobbly stack of plastic stools, warning him not to move or suffer recriminations.
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Simon Cheng, a Hong Kong citizen who worked for the British mission's business-development team when he was detained told the Journal that he was questioned repeatedly about the role his interrogators presumed Britain was playing in fomenting the unrest.
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In one exchange, the interrogators described a 2009 meeting in Vancouver between the couple and an agent from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, who had wanted to ensure their volunteer work in North Korea was not violating United Nations sanctions.
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Mr. Connell has said Mr. al-Baluchi was so abused between his capture in Pakistan in April 2003 and transfer to Guantánamo in September 2006 that he told F.B.I. agents involuntary, programmed responses drilled into him by his C.I.A. interrogators.
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But he was a top aide to Prince Turki bin Abdullah, a son of the late King Abdullah and a former governor of Riyadh, and the interrogators may have been pressing the general for information about his boss, Prince Turki.
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The heated commentary in the Chinese news media came in response to foreign coverage of a Chinese lawyer, Xie Yang, whose account of torture at the hands of interrogators was widely reported in January, including in The New York Times.
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Because although Congress passed legislation in 2015 aimed at preventing future presidents from reinstating waterboarding and other abuses, there was a major loophole in the legislation that a determined president could exploit to allow CIA interrogators to resume torturing terror suspects.
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Then, one of the interrogators burst into Kyaw Soe Oo's cell and asked angrily: "Why haven't you told us about this?" referring to the picture of the 10 kneeling men tied together, taken shortly before they were killed last September.
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Mattis' underlying message was that the techniques authorized for US interrogators, enumerated in an Army Field Manual, are sufficient, but he skillfully analogized those techniques using tough-guy terms — "a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers" — that would appeal to Trump.
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When he was subjected to the technique known as "walling," in which a detainee is slammed into a "flexible" wall in order to "shock" or "surprise" the captive, Abu Zubaydah said his interrogators repeatedly shouted questions at him, which the government redacted.
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Two of the Americans freed by Iran this month in a prisoner deal have provided new detail about their time in captivity, saying they were told by Iranian interrogators that the United States had abandoned them and that they would never leave.
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"Interrogation escalated rapidly from subject being aggressively debriefed by interrogators while standing at the walling wall, to multiple applications of the walling technique and, ultimately, multiple applications of the watering technique," said a cable that recounted the interrogation session back to CIA headquarters.
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These videos don't quite serve the utilitarian function that Clark had put forth—that of saving her time and energy by furnishing her interrogators with workable answers—but they do convey a sensibility that suits the brand: cheeky, sexy, a little Dada.
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While the FBI interrogators did read him the Miranda rights before questioning, defense attorneys argued that Abu Khatallah's statements should be excluded from courtroom evidence despite waiving his rights and continuing to answer questions about the Benghazi attack without a lawyer present.
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" At the "last point before I die," he said, interrogators stood the board back up and "make like this" — he made breathing noises — "again and again they make it with me, and I tell him, 'If you want to kill me, kill me.
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From his post on the Intelligence Committee, he has pushed for a return to the bulk collection of U.S. call data curtailed by Congress last year and has condemned new Obama administration rules limiting government interrogators to techniques in the Army Field Manual.
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He has shown a maddening ability to duck and bluster and filibuster and falsify his way through even the most pointed interrogations, not to mention offend his interrogators' well-tended egos by not always bothering to show up in person for their conversations.
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Later in the summer of 2012, Hashi was arrested in Djibouti, the tiny nation sandwiched between Somalia and Ethiopia in the Horn of Africa, where he maintains he was threatened with physical abuse and rape if he refused to cooperate with interrogators.
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The talking point that the military should exclusively handle terrorism cases persisted for years among Republicans, even as in scores of such cases, F.B.I. interrogators proved adept at persuading suspects to talk and federal prosecutors swiftly won harsh sentences without security problems.
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After Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, a Libyan captured in Afghanistan, was rendered by the United States to Egypt in 2002, Egyptian interrogators beat him and subjected him to a "mock burial" by putting him in a cramped box for 17 hours.
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The Bush administration deemed him an enemy combatant and held him for years at the Charleston, S.C., naval brig — including a 22-month period when he was denied access to a lawyer and interrogators subjected him to extreme isolation and sensory deprivation.
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It was telling, as Cherchesov faced the news media Wednesday, how many of his interrogators started off by wishing him and his team good luck, how keen they were to offer examples of how the country is behind them, unwavering in their support.
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The mastermind of the 201643/201633 attacks, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, would later claim to C.I.A. interrogators that he sent the two men to Los Angeles without any contacts at all — an assertion that both the 201623/201613 Commission and Danny Gonzalez found improbable.
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In August, Mr. Yang said that one of his Chinese interrogators had told him that Australia was small and would not care about him because he is not white and because the country was dependent on China for its trade and economy.
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Torture has also been a problem in the ruling Communist Party's own internal judicial system, laid bare in a 2013 case in which six interrogators were charged with drowning a man by repeatedly dunking him in a bucket of ice-cold water.
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"For much of the 18 months I was in prison, my Iranian interrogators told me The Washington Post did not exist, that no one knew of my plight and that the United States government would not lift a finger for my release," Mr. Rezaian said.
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But given that everything the audience sees is meant to reflect her verbal report about her experiences, and given that she does outright lie to her interrogators about those experiences, it's possible that she just made up what happened to her in the Shimmer.
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If Trump is totally confident that he will be victorious, he might want to take a look at the Benghazi hearings, when she testified for hours without losing her composure and made her Republican interrogators look like hotheads who were stumbling all over the place.
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"In one reported instance, one of the activists was made to hang from the ceiling, and according to another testimony, one of the detained women was reportedly subjected to sexual harassment, by interrogators wearing face masks," the rights group said in a statement Tuesday.
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He would spend the next five years in a Budapest prison (the Czechs turned him over to the Hungarians) trying to convince his interrogators not only that he was an eternal Communist but also that he, Duggan and Hiss had spied only for Stalin.
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In his book, "Guantánamo Diary," Mr. Slahi says he was deprived of sleep for long stretches at the prison, shackled for days at a time in a freezing cell, beaten, doused with ice water and threatened by interrogators who said they could make him disappear.
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The report noted that a delegation of BOP personnel conducted an assessment of COBALT and the CIA's operations there, which they characterized as disastrous, but the report did not state that BOP personnel also provided training to interrogators and guards on specific interrogation techniques.
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"For much of the 18 months I was in prison, my Iranian interrogators told me that the Washington Post did not exist, that no one knew my plight, and that the United States government would not lift a finger for my release," Rezaian said.
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The Senate Intelligence Committee's torture report, released in December 2014, revealed that CIA interrogators asked in a cable for "reasonable assurances" that Abu Zubaydah would "remain in isolation and incommunicado for the remainder of his life" if he did not die during his interrogation.
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She also noted that the government has acknowledged that the man asked for a lawyer after being read the Miranda warning when interrogators shifted from questioning him for intelligence purposes to questioning him in hopes of gathering evidence that is admissible in a courtroom.
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They also suggested that the United States government had deliberately prolonged his journey because it did not fly him across the ocean, and because the Navy ship, the U.S.S. New York, did not use all its engines, slowing the passage to give interrogators extra time.
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So while the technique and training methods might have been formally codified in the 1970s, Dr. Stinson said, the principles of interrogation introduced by Mr. Reid, who died in 1982, have been a major influence on police interrogators for more than half a century.
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When captured, the man apparently told interrogators that he had worked for the Islamic State guarding a gas field and monitoring civilians, and captured recruiting files indicate that he registered with the group as a fighter in July 2014, a court document filed earlier said.
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That Ms. Haspel acted on Mr. Rodriguez's orders cannot absolve her from culpability, since it would not be legally or ethically permissible to destroy evidence of known criminal wrongdoing, especially if conducted for the purpose of protecting C.I.A. interrogators who carried out the torture.
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" 'Mother, not a monster' Moreno countered that Salman was a "simple young mother" with a low IQ who was the victim not only of Mateen's abuse and infidelity, but also of manipulative FBI interrogators who coerced her into confessing things that are "provably false.
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Simon Cheng, a Hong Kong citizen who worked for the British mission's business development team when he was detained, told the Wall Street Journal he was questioned repeatedly about the role his interrogators presumed Britain was playing in fomenting anti-government unrest in the city.
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Nearly a decade after C.I.A. interrogators tortured a Saudi man suspected of involvement in Al Qaeda's bombing of the American destroyer Cole in 2000, the prisoner continued to experience lingering psychological consequences, including "nightmares that invoked being chained, naked and waterboarded," newly declassified documents show.
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He said his interrogators told him that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and suspected planner of the USS Cole bombing Abdel Rahim al Nashiri were asked about him during their interrogations, and both said it was "absurd" to conclude that Abu Zubaydah was a member of al-Qaeda.
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While Yacoubian claims to have related only instances of corruption to his interrogators, Fakhre, who has before never spoken publicly of the ordeal, says authorities informed him that Yacoubian identified him as a covert Israeli operative who had been trained by the Mossad in the Negev Desert.
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Mr. Atawneh, the Hamas operative in Israeli custody, provided his interrogators with detailed information about the routes of tunnels in northern Gaza, Hamas's operating methods and how it uses private houses and institutions for the purpose of concealing tunnel-digging, Shin Bet said in a statement.
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Simon Cheng, a Hong Kong citizen who worked for the British mission&aposs business development team when he was detained, told the Wall Street Journal he was questioned repeatedly about the role his interrogators presumed Britain was playing in fomenting anti-government unrest in the city.
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More than the defects of the interrogators are the traps they laid for Trump's defense: The accusers had no direct knowledge, they might be anti-Trumpers, investigating corruption in Ukraine is a good thing, and the country ultimately got the military aid that had been held up.
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And one more point about Mr. Rubio: why imagine that a man who collapsed in the face of childish needling from Mr. Trump would have triumphed over the woman who kept her cool during 11 hours of grilling over Benghazi, and made her interrogators look like fools?
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A series by The Times that began this month details the psychological and emotional scars that haunt the men, potentially hundreds, who suffered at the hands of interrogators at secret C.I.A. "black sites" around the world and at the military detention camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
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As ProPublica reported in 2017, Haspel monitored her own black site and oversaw the sustained torture of Abu Zubaydah: As the CIA's video cameras rolled, security guards shackled Abu Zubaydah to a gurney and interrogators poured water over his mouth and nose until he began to suffocate.
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WASHINGTON — A top specialist in chemical weapons for the Islamic State who is in American custody in northern Iraq has given military interrogators detailed information that resulted in two allied airstrikes in the last week against the group's illicit weapons sites, Defense Department officials said Wednesday.
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The Senate's torture report noted that a delegation of BOP personnel conducted an assessment of COBALT and the CIA's operations there, which they characterized as disastrous, but the report did not state that BOP personnel also provided training to interrogators and guards on specific interrogation techniques.
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In their testimony, the journalists have described how they were handcuffed, hooded, deprived of sleep, and forced to kneel for hours while being questioned by interrogators who focused on their reporting of the massacre of Rohingya Muslims, rather than the documents they are accused of obtaining.
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All you're getting is pure repetition which, were I to continue—and no disrespect to these people, their situation is a whole lot worse—feels loosely akin to the torture techniques practiced on prisoners, like when US interrogators blasted inmates with Britney Spears' "Baby One More Time".
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WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Wednesday denied a request by Ahmed Abu Khattala, the Libyan suspected of being a ringleader of the 2012 Benghazi attack, to suppress statements he made to interrogators in the brig of a Navy warship, rejecting arguments that the government violated his rights.
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From his former post on the House Intelligence Committee, Pompeo condemned Obama administration rules limiting government interrogators to techniques in the field manual — but during his confirmation hearing assured lawmakers that he would "absolutely not" comply with an order to resume the use of harsher techniques.
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In late May, Jameh sent several cables expressing his outrage that interrogators were giving detainees electric shocks, putting out cigarettes on their flesh, beating them "on all parts of the body, in a disgusting manner," and sodomizing them by forcing them to sit on soda bottles.
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The memo recommended practices similar to those later used at C.I.A. sites, such as holding only one or two "subjects" at a time and having an "operational team" that included a psychologist, interrogators, interpreters, guards, a physician, an intelligence officer and other support personnel, including video technicians.
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Kyaw Soe Oo, one of two Reuters journalists accused of obtaining state secrets, said the interrogators focused on a story the reporters had been working on about the murder by soldiers of 10 Rohingya Muslims, showing no interest in the documents they are accused of obtaining.
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When Mr. Khalil finally emerged, four months later, at a police station in the port city of Alexandria, Egypt, he looked dirty and emaciated, according to his brother Nour, and reported that interrogators had suspended him from his arms and his legs, and administered electric shocks to his genitals.
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Last year, for instance, a Christian man summoned to the FIA office in Lahore jumped off the fourth floor—he alleged he had been forced by his interrogators to perform sexual acts on his cousin, who had been arrested for sharing a blasphemous image on a Facebook messenger group.
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While a federal judge ultimately rejected the defense's request to suppress statements Abu Khatallah made to interrogators while being transported from Libya to the US, the hearing provided a rare look into how terrorism suspects are handled before stepping foot in an American courtroom or provided a lawyer.
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In place of those Obama-era rules, the order would have resurrected a 2007 George W. Bush order that designated only specific prisoner abuses as war crimes — protecting interrogators from prosecution for the use of techniques not on the war crimes list, including, for example, extended sleep deprivation.
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WASHINGTON — Two longtime detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, made rare public appearances in separate military hearings on Thursday, including Mohamedou Ould Slahi, whose memoir recounting abuse by American interrogators became a best-seller last year after he waged a yearslong battle with the government for permission to publish it.
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" Finally, after answering questions in what the interrogators deemed "a useful way," they promised him further rewards: They would remove the chain between his handcuffs and his shackles, but warned him that if he tried "anything aggressive," the black-clad members of the security team "will kill you.
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The dossier shows that details of Mr. Suleiman's alleged involvement with Al Qaeda were largely based on claims made to interrogators by a single detainee who was known for providing information about alleged terrorist activities by many dozens of fellow prisoners and who received favorable treatment in the prison.
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CLINTON: Starr and his interrogators did their best to turn the videotape into a pornographic home movie, asking me questions designed to humiliate me and to so disgust the Congress and the American people that they would demand my resignation, after which he might be able to indict me.
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While he told interrogators he stayed for months, a government court filing says travel records indicate instead that later that month he went to Turkey near the border with Syria, where the Islamic State was seizing territory amid the Syrian civil war and had just declared itself a caliphate.
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He and Mehran, 34, said they decided to ignore warnings from the interrogators and speak out in the hope of pressing the authorities to be more forthcoming about what had really happened to their father and to other prisoners who have died recently under mysterious circumstances in Iran's prisons.
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About five trainees took turns slapping Mr. al-Baluchi, spinning him around and slamming his head into a wooden or cement wall, so a supervisor could observe and "then certify class member as interrogators," said a report on the training session read aloud during testimony in the war court.
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Cheng, who said he supported the protests in a personal capacity and had monitored them as part of his job, said his interrogators accused him of being a British spy, and pressed him to admit that the British government was behind the pro-democracy protests roiling the city.
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United States military and counterterrorism officials have never forgotten where that detour into darkness led — unreliable intelligence, demoralized interrogators, terrorists who still cannot be tried in a court of law because they were tortured and a stench that still clings to America's counterterrorism reputation these many years later.
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On my desk is a bleak stack of books examining torture and harassment, the playlists of Iraq War soldiers and interrogators, musical tactics in American crime-prevention efforts, sonic cruelties inflicted in the Holocaust and other genocides, the musical preferences of Al Qaeda militants and neo-Nazi skinheads.
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PERINO: The only time, I think, that there was, you know, feeling like he should was really when President Obama had started the idea of going after those CIA interrogators and he was going to prosecute them, and that didn&apost end up happening, but he worked behind the scenes.
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Like Mr. Khan's lawyers, they want to call witnesses from the black sites to argue what Mr. Mohammed and the others told F.B.I. interrogators in their early days at Guantánamo was the product of C.I.A. "enhanced interrogation techniques," a psychologically engineered program of abuse intended to rob them of free will.
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WASHINGTON — An American citizen who has been held in military custody in Iraq for 11 weeks refused to talk to F.B.I. interrogators without a lawyer after he was warned of his Miranda rights to remain silent and have a lawyer present, the Justice Department told a federal judge on Thursday.
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In documents released last month in response to separate Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits filed by VICE News and the ACLU, the CIA released a memo from the agency's chief of medical services who said that Abu Zubaydah already started to cooperate with his interrogators prior to being subjected to waterboarding.
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The former Saturday Night Live comedian, elected in 2009, is an effective and studious senator who's earned the respect of his peers—and, lately, the fear of his opponents, as he's been one of the Senate's most ruthless interrogators of Trump nominees and one of his party's most entertaining critics of the president.
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" He notices that the Soviet physicist and Nobel Laureate Andrei Sakharov, who spent years in internal exile for speaking out against human rights abuses, smiles a lot, and wonders "whether that was always natural to him, or whether smiling was something he taught himself to do as a way of disarming his interrogators.
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Washington (CNN)Lawyers for the Justice Department revealed for the first time in a court filing Thursday that an unnamed US citizen, who has been detained as an "enemy combatant" in Iraq for over two months, asked his interrogators for an attorney and was told it is "unknown" when he would receive one.
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According to one account, a French citizen, Reda Hame, who was arrested in Paris last August soon after returning from Syria, told interrogators with France's domestic intelligence wing that he had been recruited by the external operations arm of the group and assigned to create mayhem at a rock concert in France.
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He explained to interrogators last summer, after he was arrested upon returning to France to carry out an attack, that he had made sure to buy a package stay at a beach resort in southern Turkey specifically because he wanted to throw off investigators, who knew to look for suspects heading to Istanbul.
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The tormented accounts by the psychiatrists and others who expressed feeling torn between prisoner-patients, who suspected that the psychiatrists were accomplices in torture, and interrogators, who accused psychiatrists of protecting the prisoner-patients, are reminiscent of many of the responses I received from former Army psychiatrists in a post-Vietnam War study.
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"I was going for something a bit bigger," Mr. Jackson told his interrogators, explaining that over the course of several days in New York, with a hotel in Times Square as his base, he walked around Manhattan actively stalking between 10 and 15 individuals or groups with the thought of killing them.
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After an internal debate over whether Mr. Zubaydah was forthcoming to F.BI. interrogators, the agency hired two C.I.A. contract psychologists to create the now-outlawed program that would use violence, isolation and sleep deprivation on more than 20023 men in secret sites, some described as dungeons, staffed by secret guards and medical officers.
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BEIJING — Perched unsteadily on a stack of plastic stools in an isolated room, Xie Yang, a Chinese lawyer, was encircled day and night by interrogators who blew smoke in his face, punched and kicked him, and threatened to turn him into an "invalid" unless he confessed to political crimes, he has said.
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He has advocated a return to the bulk collection of Americans' domestic calling records — which Congress restricted though legislation last year — and he has denounced President Obama's decision in 2009 to close C.I.A. black-site prisons and also to require government interrogators to strictly adhere to the rules of the Army Field Manual.
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Related: Guantanamo 'Built on How to Destroy a Human Being': Shaker Aamer Speaks For the First Time Aamer, who says British security officers knew he was being tortured by American interrogators and who now suffers serious arthritis and kidney problems, said he was not angry and had no desire for revenge or compensation.
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The CIA disputed some of the Intelligence Committee's findings and insisted that a majority of the intelligence the agency gleaned about Al Qaeda and other accused terrorists captured by the US military was based on information Abu Zubaydah and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, provided to their interrogators.
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WASHINGTON — The American citizen imprisoned by the military for five months as an enemy combatant told interrogators that he worked for the Islamic State guarding a gas field and monitoring civilians, and captured recruiting files indicate that he registered with the group as a fighter in July 2014, a newly declassified court document said.
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He became one of the Ritchie Boys, an elite military intelligence service group — they trained at Camp Ritchie, Md. — whose skills in German, Polish and other European languages made them valuable spies and interrogators during World War II. Thanks to his enlistment, he became the first member of his family to gain United States citizenship.
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He was the first person known to be waterboarded by the C.I.A. — he endured it 83 times — and was the first person known to be crammed into a small confinement box as part of what the Seton Hall study called "a constantly rotating barrage" of methods meant to break what interrogators believed was his resistance.
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Still, I had an early flight to catch the next morning, to that other early decider in the presidential sweepstakes, New Hampshire — a state that is much remarked on by the political class for its flinty local interrogators and for the pride they seem to take in negating the referendum delivered by Iowans a week earlier.
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According to a draft of the order obtained by the Times, Trump plans to rescind Obama's executive orders to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay and end CIA prisons, and replace them with an old 2007 order from George W. Bush that allowed interrogators to use tactics that were not defined by the Geneva Convention as war crimes.
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According to Fallon, most of the interrogators were "basically conscripts" who would "walk into a room for the first time thinking the detainee was just waiting to be cracked open and they were the next Jack Bauer," the fictional protagonist of "24," who used abusive tactics to elicit information and save his city from terrorist attacks.
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When C.I.A. interrogators in a Thailand prison sent a cable to agency headquarters recounting that they had been slamming Abu Zubaydah, a captured terrorism suspect, against a wall, they emphasized that they were obeying instructions to take steps to prevent his injury, like putting a rolled-up towel behind his neck, and described the practice in detached terms.
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Look at how People's Daily of China disputed reports about the torture that the human rights lawyer Xie Yang said he had endured at the hands of government interrogators, calling it "Fake News," and how Cambodia threatened to expel foreign news organizations, including Voice of America and Radio Free Asia, because of Mr. Trump's assertions that reporters were dishonest.
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These are the same people, the New York slimes, that blabbed about releasing and revealing the identities of CIA interrogators, including the one who interrogated KSM, again, endangering these intelligence agents and ignoring the entreaties of top officials who were telling them not to do this in the name of national security they didn&apost care then and they don&apost care now.
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Mark Martins of the Army, and his team had argued that the law permitted some concessions to national security imperatives in such a case, while playing up how much information the government had turned over in discovery about the black-site program, including summaries about what agency employees and contractors who served as guards, doctors and interrogators at the prisons saw and did.
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Investigations by the Army, the Justice Department and the Senate largely corroborated his account of being deprived of sleep; beaten; shackled in painful positions; forced to drink large amounts of water; isolated in darkness and exposed to extreme temperatures; stripped and soaked in cold water; told that his mother might be sent to Guantánamo; and sexually assaulted by female interrogators.
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As the result of a recent court ruling, Guantánamo detainees had access to legal representation, and so, during the next several months, Salahi drafted a diary of his detention as a series of harrowing letters to his lawyers, Nancy Hollander, Sylvia Royce, and Theresa Duncan—four hundred and sixty-six pages, sealed in envelopes and mailed to a classified facility near Washington, D.C. No guards or interrogators were allowed to read Salahi's work.
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Asked by Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, about remarks he made in 2005 defending the George W. Bush administration's "enhanced interrogation techniques" program and the idea that it was lawful to use "pain, discomfort and other things to make people talk" so long as it does not cross the line to torture, Mr. Barr said he would obey and uphold a 2015 law restricting American interrogators to using only those techniques listed in the Army Field Manual.
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