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• 17 Aug 10
  

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• 07 Jul 10
  

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• 01 Jul 10
  

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• 16 Dec 08
  

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• 09 Aug 08
  

  Rick Powell

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• 21 Mar 08
  

  l.m orchard

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• 23 Oct 07
  

  Michael Massing

  'It's a phrase that appears to have been concocted in 1937, to describe a form of torture that would leave no marks, and hence save the embarrassment pre-war Nazi officials were experiencing as their wounded torture victims ended up in court.'

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• 16 Oct 07
  

  Lounge Creature

  I remember as a private in basic training being told that obeying orders was no excuse for committing war crimes. I also remember being taught that it was my duty to disobey unlawful orders.

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• 08 Jun 07
  

  Colleen Wainwright

  torture as practiced under the bush administration is nothing new

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• 02 Jun 07
  

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  Gareth Stack

  how the natzi's used 'interrogation techniques' similar to current US policy

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• 01 Jun 07
  

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• 31 May 07
  

  danbri

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• 30 May 07
  

  Mark Walker

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  koranteng

  The phrase "Verschärfte Vernehmung" is German for "enhanced interrogation". Other translations include "intensified interrogation" or "sharpened interrogation". It's a phrase that appears to have been concocted in 1937, to describe a form of torture that

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  • What I am reporting is a simple empirical fact: the interrogation methods approved and defended by this president are not new. Many have been used in the past. The very phrase used by the president to describe torture-that-isn't-somehow-torture - "enhanced interrogation techniques" - is a term originally coined by the Nazis. The techniques are indistinguishable. The methods were clearly understood in 1948 as war-crimes. The punishment for them was death.

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