enhanced interrogation technique

noun

enhanced interrogation technique

noun

Etymology Coined the George W. Bush administration, with the antecedent German verschärfte Vernehmung (“enhanced interrogation”). Compare enhanced interrogation.

1

US, Euphemistic Torture performed at detainees by the US Armed Forces.

Typically in the plural

Derived terms
EIT

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