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Victor Klemperer, Jewish KZ inmate and post-war professor of German literature, wrote a book which analyses how nazis introduced a nearly Orwellian kind of German language. Examples are "crisis" for defeat, "connection" (Anschluss) for annexation, and "enhanced interrogation" for torture.
There is an "enhanced interrogation" technique used in GITMO where they fill the prisoners clothes with ice cubes until shaking uncontrollably, then they beat the ice-filled prisoner. [3/4 down page]
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Condoleezza Rice has been criticized for her role in authorizing enhanced interrogation techniques by human rights organizations.
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"futility music”: upbeat and repetitive music like Barney's "I love you" & the Meow Mix commercial song that the CIA was found to be using to "break" detainees into thinking that resistance is futile as part of their enhanced interrogation techniques.
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The CIA "claimed to have "disrupted" terrorist plots as a result of the enhanced interrogation techniques that were determined by intelligence and law enforcement officials as being infeasible or ideas that were never even operationalized." [Released Torture Report]
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The American Psychological Association collaborated with the CIA to help improve the effectiveness of the "enhanced interrogation techniques" of the post-9/11 torture program
