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• 16 Dec 08
  

  Robert Maguire

  torture waronterror nazis wwii nuremburg politics bush termonology enhanced interrogation warcrimes documents history

• 09 Aug 08
  

  Rick Powell

  "No Blood, No Foul."

  torture Bush

• 06 May 08
  

  Éric Daspet

  justice

• 21 Mar 08
  

  l.m orchard

  bush nazis terror torture war

• 03 Jun 07
  

  triple_ t

  torture propaganda fascism bush history

• 02 Jun 07
  
• 01 Jun 07
  

  creepyron zarra tegh

  daily dish enhanced interrogation vernehmung verschärfte

• 30 May 07
  

  Mark Walker

  politics torture bush

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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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  Torture Germany - Nazis

  • 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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