• GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    It’s Senator Enhanced Interrogation, akshually. We don’t torture in America, because we don’t call it torture in America.

    • miz [any, any]@hexbear.net
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      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