interrogation tactics, reality winner

"Kim told me that he was disoriented during his interrogations. He had never been the target of an investigation and didn’t know what to do — he didn’t realize, for instance, that he should stop the questioning and ask for a lawyer.

 His experience, and Winner’s, demonstrate how a coercive environment can be created without handcuffs or prison bars.

“It was surreal,” Kim told me. “What are you supposed to feel? You don’t feel anything. You’re dumbfounded.

 Have you ever been hit really hard, like playing sports, or you ran into a pole, or somebody hit you?

At first you don’t know what hit you.

You’re kind of stunned. … I didn’t know what was happening.”

https://theintercept.com/2017/12/28/how-the-interrogation-of-reality-winner-reveals-the-deceptive-tactics-of-exceedingly-friendly-fbi-agents/