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grahamhgreen

(15,741 posts) Wed Dec 10, 2014, 04:04 PM Dec 2014

'EIT' meme - don't use it, or 'enhanced interrogation'

I've seen the media trying to re-brand torture as 'EIT', or enhanced interrogation techniques.

We should never use or say this term.

Instead, call it what it is - torture.

That is all.