client? Mhm. I won't say it. If you if you have it from some other source, Tony said it. I I understand. Your interrogation is makes all the sense in the world, but I just don't say it. I don't talk about clients. There's abunch of reasons, but most of all, just absolute confidentiality. I know it's weird. Apologies. But I heard you talk
presenter: Let's talk very briefly, I promise, about enhanced interrogation techniques. Al-Qahtani is one of the individuals that we've known for a long time was tortured or to whom enhanced interrogation techniques were applied. In December of 2003, in January of 2004. Those techniques were approved by Donald Rumsfeld. We've always had this questions lingering,this question of torture, of whether or not you can get reliable evidence. One of the things seems to be that from Qahtani, as your book says, we did get information. Could you
So at FBI field office in Philadelphia, I was subjected to fingerprinting, mug shots, and interrogation . And when I was transferred to the US Marshals Service to wait for my first court appearance, I was ordered to strip naked, bend over against the wall so that a US Marshal could check whether I hid anything in my body.
Yeah. Right before I got kidnapped, I got it in Stevenson High School in the Bronx. The interrogation tactics are exactly the same.
free CU my interpreter was standing over there cowering my two main interrogation they took each man out I
He explained that The Silent One had been captured and summarily executed. During his brief interrogation , he had remained true to his name and said nothing. Then as they raised their guns, he said, ask Johnny to tell you what happened in the camp.
I was in handcuffs all the time, except when I was using a restroom or locked up in a cell. During the two-hour interrogation , I was handcuffed to the table that I was sitting at. At the end of the interrogation , the FBI agent finally told me that I was charged for having made a pocket
mentioned you were a little tired and now we're hitting these bright lights yes yes yeah yeah that's what you need after 4 hours sleep interrogation lights well hopefully today's weather sort of made you feel more at home it's a oh oh yeah yeah cuz uh the joke about where I live in Britain is you can normally only tell it's summer when the rain gets
free CU my interpreter was standing over there cowering my two here the interrogation ends I slump down I think I'm okay am I okay I don't know
The Republican party at this point has a fairly unambiguous position on torture which is that they support it. They call it extreme interrogation techniques, EIT's, but they very much believe that this should be used on terrorist suspects. They're angry and attacked the Obama Administration for not having used these techniques on the so called "Christmas Bomber", the "Underwear Bomber" as other people call him, and torture
Is a young army corporal from New Jersey. Name withheld. She witnessed the violent interrogation of Iraqi prisoners and was deeply troubled. Six weeks after her appeal for reassignment was denied, she shot herself dead with her government issue semi-automatic."
Nart Villeneuve, who is here joining us today, along with Ben Edelman at Harvard University were both working in similar areas. Trying to undertake technical interrogation of the Internet to find out what content was being blocked by countries around the world. That was the problem that we were attempting to address.
And the Americans and the British took these people and this machinery and painstakingly, over four years of interrogations , interviews, mechanically piecing together the scientific archeology of the Third Reich's script analytical apparatus.
And sometimes it's really, I would say-- well, you feel really nervous. Because these interrogations , they are conducted in a prison, actually-- just by chance. So you never know what might happen to you next.
So you can go back years later and prove people are innocent. Recording of interrogations that we're going to discuss a lot today, this is a critical reform. We're talking about beginning to videotape an interrogation from the time of Miranda warnings, not as in the Central Park Five case, after they tuned people
Umm, all right. I should say for those of you who are interested in the subject, there's an awful lot of material available about these interrogations and it's been confirmed by other accounts. Okay, the last from Abu Zubadayah: "They placed a cloth or cover over the box to cut out the light and restrict my air supply.
During the two-hour interrogation , I was handcuffed to the table that I was sitting at. At the end of the interrogation , the FBI agent finally told me that I was charged for having made a pocket heater, a device that was covered by a non-disclosure agreement with a Chinese company with a Chinese collaborator.
of facts, they come in and they begin a videotape later. That's not videotaping of interrogation in any meaningful way. Eyewitness identification-- in 19 states, we've been able to seriously change the different methods of doing identification procedures,
In fact, when I saw them do that in a total of about 3 and 1/2 hours, I was thinking, why do we take six weeks? Just six months before this Dassey interrogation , the law was changed in Wisconsin to make it mandatory that all custodial interrogations be videotaped
to find out who were the terrorists lurking in their midst. Now we know what happened in these interrogation centers, in part because of the testimony of this man, Henri Alleg, who was not himself Algerian. He was actually French, a French Jew, but he was also a communist, and he ran a Republican newspaper in Algiers, which was crime enough
And the faster you turned that handle, the more electricity comes out. This was a favorite instrument of interrogation used by the French security forces in Algeria. Henri Alleg described what happened to him when he was dragged into an interrogation center.
And President Obama said that our interrogation methods are going to conform to the US Army Field Manual and that we're not going to be using techniques such as water
They had this idea, and they went with it, and they used all their tricks. And the power dynamic in an interrogation room between seasoned homicide detectives with 20 years of experience and a 14-, 15-, or 16-year-old is pretty extraordinary. They were all read their Miranda Rights, but people don't understand what that means.
al-Kuwaiti is playing an important role in al-Qaeda. Did that happen before the coercive interrogation ? Did it happen after? Did it happen during? We don't know. But Wikileaks and other ways of-- We know how this guys was treated. When Karen uses the word "torture", which I think is a word that can sometimes be, as it were,
over the head for the interrogation . Um, can we dim it a
Yes it is true that during interrogation they were in fact hinting and even more than hinting they're saying that, "Become a man. Say that we are right; you are wrong. You're so young.
Sometimes the music stopped and was replaced by a loud hissing or crackling noise." Now what we're seeing here is a series of so called protocols. This is the conditioning phase of the interrogation . He's kept naked; the technical name for this for the interrogators is 'adjustment of clothing to induce stress'.
The CIA protocol describes "As the HVD, high value detainee, is placed in the vertical shackling position to begin sleep deprivation. Other shackling procedures may be used during interrogation . The detainee is diapered for sanitary purposes", so he doesn't have to be released to sit on the bucket or whatever, "although the diaper is not used at all times" and indeed they
And he went through a series of interrogations .
They did nothing about it. The Poles also told the Germans in interrogations that they'd cracked Enigma, and Enigma was compromised, and the Germans didn't listen.
Though I don't have the documents to prove it, I have a suspicion that after they tried walling the first time, which is something that the Israelis use to use as well and which gradually developed over the course of these interrogations . Eventually the towel was replaced by a leather collar which actually had handles that the interrogators could use to smash them.
It's just that we don't-- that kind of self-interrogation isn't a thing that you naturally think about doing.
I'm terrified I'm just going to get an interrogation , or more.
Recording of interrogations that we're going to discuss a lot today, this is a critical reform. We're talking about beginning to videotape an interrogation from the time of Miranda warnings, not as in the Central Park Five case, after they tuned people up, as they used to say at "NYPD Blue," interrogate them for hours, and then after it's all over and all the coercion has taken place and all the feeding
He still would not tell them what they wanted to know. And so they took him down off the interrogation table, they beat him, and they dragged him into another room where he experienced another form of torture that they called the , what we know better as waterboarding.
a Pakistani whose family had gone to Kuwait and they moved back. Pakistan is twice the size of California, with a population of 180 million people, so trying to find out-- In terms of-- Leaping over the question of coercive interrogation for a minute, the things that really got to find Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti was associating a real name with him, which took till 2007. The next big break was associating a real cell phone with this real name. That took till June of 2010. The reason that happened
we didn't I didn't address the interrogation issue during the bush
experts who are looking very closely at what exactly interrogation policies of
and power. Now today I got feedback from Googlers that they wanted the talk to be focused on torture and where we are when it comes to extreme interrogation with the Obama Administration. So he'll be talking about his book "Stripping Bare the Body" but also he will focus his talk on that issue.
"black sites", secret prisons around the world, where they're interrogated and sometimes tortured. And then just the general issue of torture itself and harsh interrogation . Torture is a long story, of course.
It felt like they were experimenting and trying out techniques to be used later on other people." That is in fact true. We see during the course of the various accounts of these interrogations how these techniques evolve. I mentioned the towel which became a leather collar and then a plastic collar that was developed specifically for walling prisoners.
that most lucrative of political emotions, fear, and they have done it extremely well so that by now, a year after 9/11, we've seen major attack on the Administration over the It should be said also that some people involved in the interrogations , including some have come out publicly, believe that it was a terrible mistake.
Listen, you could walk out of this interrogation room a free man.
And we did a lot of witness prep with him prior to his interrogation at the Court.
People could tell you the truth if you gave it to them in interrogation .
This was a favorite instrument of interrogation used by the French security forces in Algeria. Henri Alleg described what happened to him when he was dragged into an interrogation center. And he first had the clips applied to his ear and to his finger.
There are probably several others we don't yet know about but these were places that were completely secret where these people were taken off to for interrogation . I want to read a little bit about what this kind of interrogation is like and I'm going to use an excerpt from "The Red Cross Report" that I published last Spring. It's the account of Abu Zubaydah who was the first of the so called "big fish", high valued detainees.
time to get into but he did indeed declare that this would stop. He declared also that the government would do a study on proper interrogation and finally he declared that Guantanamo would be closed within a year. As we all know, Guantanamo has not been closed and indeed it's unclear when it might be.
that most lucrative of political emotions, fear, and they have done it extremely well so that by now, a year after 9/11, we've seen major attack on the Administration over the I think if you took a consensus of sort of professionals who do interrogation , the overwhelming majority would say this stuff doesn't work, it's a bad idea.
They experienced the invasive medical examinations, the grueling interrogations , and they also