Sentence examples for an enhanced interrogation from inspiring English sources
It is an "enhanced interrogation technique".
I see it as an enhanced interrogation technique".
One detainee died there of hypothermia, and a senior officer described a simple stay as "an enhanced interrogation technique", agency-speak for torture.
The story opens with the Dude (Jeff Bridges), the iconic laid-back, philosophically slacking stoner, receiving an enhanced interrogation by a pair of thugs.
He wages war against euphemism — most vividly by having himself subjected to waterboarding, so that he can report with authority that it is not an "enhanced interrogation" technique but unquestionably "torture".
Yet the current crop of Republican presidential candidates have been trying to outbid one another with promises of barbarism: Senator Ted Cruz confirmed that he favours simulated drowning, which he classifies as an "enhanced interrogation technique" (EIT) that falls short of torture.
"Fewer than 100 hardened terrorists have gone through the program since it began in 2002," he added, "and, of those, less than a third required any enhanced interrogation measures".
QUESTION FROM MJGRANGER: At the time KSM was waterboarded it was an authorized enhanced interrogation technique that G.W. Bush says in his memoir was performed on a handful of detainees, including KSM, and yielded information that saved many lives, what other "torture" are you alleging took place at Gitmo, when, and by whom?
"EIT", an abbreviation for enhanced interrogation technique, triumphed in the "most euphemistic" category, ahead of Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow's coining of "conscious uncoupling" to mean getting divorced.
Between September 2002 and April 2003, the five defendants in the forthcoming 9/11 trial at Guantánamo -- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Mustafa al-Hawsawi, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali (aka Ammar al-Baluchi) and Walid bin Attash -- were seized and transferred to secret CIA prisons, where they were subjected to an array of "enhanced interrogation techniques" including waterboarding.
Moreover, it was in these prisons that, in contrast to Michael Hayden's claim that, of the six, only KSM was waterboarded, CIA operatives who spoke to ABC News in November 2005 said that 12 "high-value" detainees in total were subjected to an array of "enhanced interrogation techniques".
