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President Bush has repeatedly defended what the administration calls "enhanced" interrogation methods, saying they have produced invaluable information on Al Qaeda.

C.I.A superiors offered Mr. Martinez and some other analysts the chance to be "certified" in what the C.I.A. euphemistically called "enhanced interrogation methods".

Cruz has said he does not consider waterboarding to be torture, and would "use whatever enhanced interrogation methods we could to keep this country safe".

Mayer's meticulously reported descent into the depths of President Bush's anti­terrorist policies peels away the layers of legal and bureaucratic maneuvering that gave us Guantánamo Bay, "extraordinary rendition," "enhanced" interrogation methods, "black sites," warrantless domestic surveillance and all the rest.

On the other, argues the government, these individuals were exposed (albeit involuntarily) to government secrets by having been subjected to the CIA's classified interrogation program -- which we now know included "enhanced interrogation" methods that amounted to torture.

"Like many Americans, I understand the urgency that drove the decision to resort to so-called enhanced interrogation methods after our country was attacked," McCain said in his statement.

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"Professional interrogators, intelligence operatives and investigators were marginalized, and instead of tried and tested methods being used, faith was placed in E.I.T.'s," or "enhanced interrogation techniques," the government's euphemism for waterboarding and other harsh methods, he writes.

Otherwise, waterboarding and torture methods erroneously referred to as "enhanced interrogation" techniques will be back, along with the disgrace and misinformation they yield.

Not so the former Vice-President, who chose to speak in a chilling code, in which methods of torture such as waterboarding became "enhanced interrogation," in the way that death might be called "enhanced sleep".

And then I'm going to institute a sexier enhanced interrogation program lead by leather-clad dominatrices incorporating teasing and denial methods to break ISIS operatives.

In the infamous torture memos of 2002, Yoo and Bybee, authorised "enhanced interrogation" techniques (EITs), acts previously recognised by the US as torture – and the same torture methods used on US soldiers to obtain false confessions during the Korean war.

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