inquisitor

Miller also pointed to the dichotomy of Porter’s terse reaction in the television interview to Porter championing herself in Congress as a fearless and aggressive inquisitor of CEOs and government leaders.

When an administrator would question him, the man would say he was looking for a teacher or student to throw off the inquisitor.

You tell me, her inquisitor throws back at her, and she concludes somewhat hollowly, “I don’t know.”

In one interrogation, she says her inquisitors tried to force a confession out of her.

Eriksson was an engaging, courteous character with an uncanny ability to smile as he deflected away various personal scandals, never allowing his inquisitors to lay a glove on him.