or securing position. In the securing position, an end of the pawl projects from the opening in the faceplate and is configured to engage an exterior surface of the header of the lower sash to prevent upward vertical movement thereof. The pawl is spring biased to a normally protruding securing position and is movable to a retracted position in the housing. A spring is mounted directly on the pawl via one end that engages the pawl, and the other end of the spring engages the back wall of the housing.
In the securing position, the pawl engages the lower sash frame and prevents further relative sliding movement of the sash frames. The pivotally mounted pawl is manually retractable into the cavity to disengage the lower end of the pawlMay 6, 2011

"It began with a disclosure from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), who broke like a dam under the pressure of harsh interrogation techniques that included waterboarding. He loosed a torrent of information—including eventually the nickname of a trusted courier of bin Laden."

The harsh techniques themselves were used selectively against only a small number of hard-core prisoners who successfully resisted other forms of interrogation, and then only with the explicit authorization of the director of the CIA....

Former CIA Director Michael Hayden has said that, as late as 2006, even with the growing success of other intelligence tools, fully half of the government's knowledge about the structure and activities of al Qaeda came from those interrogations....

The Obama administration has ended these interrogations and is investigating CIA employees who conducted