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enhanced interrogations

enhanced interrogations is the plural of enhanced interrogation.

Meaning of enhanced interrogation

Noun

enhanced interrogation (countable and uncountable, plural enhanced interrogations)

  1. (US, euphemistic) The practice of using techniques normally considered torture that are claimed not to be torture according to a carefully parsed interpretation of legal language.
    • In 2009, the Obama Administration released guidelines on enhanced interrogation written in 2003 and 2004 by the CIA Office of Medical Services. ^((OMS).1-3(appendix F)) The OMS guidelines, even in redacted form, and opinions from the US Department of Justice's (DOJ’s) Office of Legal Counsel show...2010 August 4, Leonard S. Rubenstein, JD; Stephen N. Xenakis, MD, “The Ethics of Enhanced Interrogations and Torture: A Reappraisal of the Argument”, in JAMA, volume 304, number 5, American Medical...

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What is enhanced interrogations the plural of?
Enhanced interrogations is the plural of enhanced interrogation.

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