InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 12 days agoSenate confirms Pete Hegseth as Trump's defense secretary in 51-50 votewww.cbsnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up181arrow-down10
arrow-up181arrow-down1external-linkSenate confirms Pete Hegseth as Trump's defense secretary in 51-50 votewww.cbsnews.comInevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 12 days agomessage-square47fedilink
minus-squareGeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·11 days agoIt’s Senator Enhanced Interrogation, akshually. We don’t torture in America, because we don’t call it torture in America.
minus-squaremiz [any, any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 days ago the originator of this term is unknown, but it appears to be a calque of the German “Verschärfte Vernehmung”, meaning “intensified interrogation”, used in 1937 by Gestapo chief Heinrich Müller
Senator Torture
It’s Senator Enhanced Interrogation, akshually. We don’t torture in America, because we don’t call it torture in America.