InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 4 days agoSenate confirms Pete Hegseth as Trump's defense secretary in 51-50 votewww.cbsnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up173arrow-down10
arrow-up173arrow-down1external-linkSenate confirms Pete Hegseth as Trump's defense secretary in 51-50 votewww.cbsnews.comInevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square41fedilink
minus-squareInevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33·4 days agoI googled. Elissa has dedicated her career to serving the country she loves. A former CIA analyst who served three tours in Iraq alongside the U.S. military…
minus-squareGeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·4 days agoIt’s Senator Enhanced Interrogation, akshually. We don’t torture in America, because we don’t call it torture in America.
minus-squaremiz [any, any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 days ago the originator of this term is unknown, but it appears to be a calque of the German “Verschärfte Vernehmung”, meaning “intensified interrogation”, used in 1937 by Gestapo chief Heinrich Müller
I googled.
Senator Torture
It’s Senator Enhanced Interrogation, akshually. We don’t torture in America, because we don’t call it torture in America.