David Danzig: Bush Speech Writer Makes Jack Bauer Look Reasonable

The point is, Thiessen writes, to ask questions you already know the answer to and thereby judge compliance by the accuracy of the answers. Analysis: Not even 24 is that simplistic. Thiessen has never interrogated anyone or spent (it seems) ... Perhaps the interrogators were asking questions they knew the answers to simply because they were attempting to establish "a baseline" by which they could read their subject similar to the way polygraph technicians attempt to get a ...