You're missing the point. There's questioning, and then there's questioning. What these officers were doing was not "questioning", it was berating. They were ju

You're missing the point. There's questioning, and then there's questioning. What these officers were doing was not "questioning", it was berating. They were just trying to act like sheriffs from an old Western. If they really wanted to question him, they would have done so gently, by gaining his trust and slowly loosening his lips. This is why the FBI is dead against torture (I know, this was not torture by any sense of the word) : it doesn't give them anything of value. On the other hand, they have had huge successes by winning the suspect's trust and letting him talk.